Great! More feedback! I will look further into frameless glass doors. I'm a little overwhelmed with stuff to do on the house and elsewhere before moving that I'm having a hard time pinpointing exactly what to do with the bathroom and layout. There are a couple of limiting factors - a window and a radiator as well as the location of my drainpipe that are constraining. Essentially, my rectangular space has a toilet, door, window and radiator on one end leaving three walls on the other end: 5 and 1/2 feet on one side, 7 and 1/2 feet on the back and 7 feet on the other side. Can you picture it? We are thinking about a 3 by 4 shower on one side and a 48-60 inch lavatory on the other - is that a little cramped in the middle? Suggestions? I was looking at neo angle corner showers but the one that looked okay is Vigo and there is hardly any feedback on those. I also couldn't find a base for one that wasn't acrylic. I suppose we could build a base with a Kerdi system, but that will take a lot of research and work...

Most of the tile that is being talked about above was made in the mid 1920's to about the early 40's I help my husband hand salvage these old tiles for over 15 years from homes and Historical sites that are being torn down daily. Most of the tiles are either Gladding Mc Bean or American Euncaustic Tile co. Sometimes we will even find some Pomona Tile co by Hermosa .These tiles were mostly done with a baked glass like glaze making them almost impossible to salvage. Often the same type of tile was used in the kitchen and or back splash area .I personally love the salmon color as well and there is an awesome lavender that looks like hard candy. There were also early American tiles that were used on the face of fire places and in fountains in the yard. All of these companyÂs can be found in the American Art Tile Encyclopedia it is a great source of education on early California Tile Company's. These tiles are worth keeping and make you a member of the Tile club. Wanda Saving History one piece at a time......

Hi vishketan, I live in the Bay Area (Santa Rosa) and had my hall bath redone exactly a year ago. Not sure where you live, but it can get pricey here. My hall bath is small, about 5x10. My tub/shower is in a standard 5x3 alcove. So, about 35 sq.ft. for the floor and 58 sq.ft. for the tub/shower which includes a niche. My contract gave me an allowance of $3,000 for tile plus labor. I chose inexpensive Daltile subways for the shower (love it) and a floor tile that was about $7 or 8 a square foot. Nothing to break the bank. My GC subbed the tile work out and it was done superbly. It took one guy about two days to lay the tile. Maybe extra for the Kerdi and Ditra. After the floor tile was laid, there was a squeak and deflection in the run adjacent to the tub. Joists were inspected and all was fine. The guy redid the tile. Still a squeak. Took it out. Joists were fortified just for good measure. Tile redone again. No squeaks. All is well. These tile guys aimed to please.

Many thanks to everybody who answered, you have all been very helpful in clarifying my very muddled thoughts. Here is a hopefully clearer description of the situation: The house is a 50's ranch style, with 3 bedrooms and a hall bath (4.5x8.5 ft) clustered on one side of the house, and the kitchen, office/den and another hall bath (4x9 ft) on the other side of the house, with a great room in the middle. We plan to stay in this house as long as we can, but we are in this city for my husband's work, and if something happens (although unlikely with his kind of job), we know we'll have to move somewhere else; therefore, we'd like to make updates to the house while keeping resale in mind. Our (excellent) realtor said that for resale we should have an ensuite. After reading the comments, I have to clarify with him if he thinks a lack of ensuite will narrow down the market significantly, or if we 'simply' would not get the best price for the house. Most houses in the area are old (in the whole city actually), and we saw plenty without ensuites. We saw two of the neighbors' houses, and they did not have ensuites. This is what we considered: 1. Redo the bathrooms with the existing footprint (not that we have room to change anything inside), but we can go far into making them pretty, 2. Add a door from the master bedroom to the hall bath next to it, and close access from the hall. This I think would be a bad idea, not only because the people in the other two bedrooms will have to go across the house to the other bathroom, but also because the master bedroom will end up with windows on two walls, three closets on another, and two doors on the fourth side. Not restful. 3. Add another bathroom next to the master bedroom where the closets are, with one closet door transformed into a bathroom door. This bathroom would be 4.5x12 ft, although it could go to 5x12 if need be (but no more, because we'll hit a big window), which will have a shower but no bathtub. We talked to a professional who said it will fit fine with the caveat that the toilet will likely be the first thing you see in front of the door because of the current clearance requirements. 4. Build an addition. This again I think would be a very bad idea, since it would be blindingly expensive and the house is already on the higher side of square footage for the surrounding area. We will of course fix everything that is broken. The interior doors are the original 50s doors, hollow core dark wood look with lots of scuffs and holes, and they were cut short to fit the now non-existent carpet, so I would qualify changing them as fixing what is broken (and they bug me every time I look at them... ). The windows are a perk; we are still divided on those. I tend toward option 1, while my husband is going for option 3, although he agrees we do not need another bathroom. The reason I feel ill equipped to make this decision is that I'm originally from Europe, and even after so many years here I feel mildly perplexed about the North American love affair with bathrooms. Our previous rental was built in the last ten years and had a huge ensuite which I didn't like. I found it hard to keep as clean as I thought it should be, and it was so large I felt as if I was doing my business in public. Given the bathroom pictures on Houzz, I'm clearly in a minority. Your comments help ensure that I don't miss anything that might otherwise be obvious, so thanks again. And extra thanks to whoever makes it to the end of this post...