If you do the bypass door, you would definitely have to have the post between the fixed piece of glass and where the bypass doors start....you can have to pieces of glass that butt up to one another, esp if one of those pieces of glass is going to slide.

To get the seamless look you want, you should do the hinged, pivoted door. You can have the glass company remove the standard pin in the hinges and this way the door can swing in and out...just be sure that if the door swings in, it clears the bench and shower handles.....I've done this a million times in small bathroom, where the door swings both ways.
Hope this help!

Thanks Archnista!

You understood what I meant. I appreciate your feedback. To have one last go round on this to understand and compare my BF and I yesterday went to 2 places that I'm dealing with for the bath remodel and see if by staring at displays I could understand more. The first place was the place where I'm getting the cultured marble panels (and install) from. The other place is where I'm getting our Totos, all of our Grohe stuff, plus the lighting and some storage pieces. Both places have lots of displays, not necessarily exactly like ours is going to be - but close enough to depict the ideas.

So, the cultured marble place says for a "swing out" door, we'd be looking at an "in-line" notched piece over the bench, then the "swing out" door, then another piece of "in-line". They do indeed do "pivoted" hinges, but we'd have to have enough depth to provide full swing in - that makes total sense. Also, the best possible thing is to have full swing on the outside or at least know what we'd be hitting - toilet for sure if we opened all the way. Also, the BF is worried that the wing out door would collect water and then deposit it on the floor, plus he feels that the swing in deal would mean splattering water outward if one of us enters or exits the shower while water is on (very likely since we do that tonight - i.e. shared showers.)

The key thing that helped me was to see the "trim" aspects of the by-pass doors and in the trim type I like. It won't be too bad. I was picturing old fashioned big bulky shower frames of yesteryear. There's much nicer sleeker and contemporary stuff available now.

Also, tomorrow the cultured marble guy and my GC are meeting over at the new house to go over the plans for the shower stall. At this point the bench is roughed in and by the time the cultured marble guy arrives I think the plan is to have the window roughed in too. And I think the plumbing values are also going to be roughed in.

But I think they'll figure it out. The key thing is everything is down to studs and that means we they can get a clearer picture of what goes where, etc.

Thanks for your help. I do think we'll wind up with bypass doors in a minimal frame trim and everything will be fine :)

Cheers,
--jans

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