I only have one, but it occurs to me that with an 8ft shower you have the length to have no door if you do one head. Does the lack of a door appeal at all?

My shower is not as long and we shower mostly separately so I did not put a shower head on the far wall but I do have a hand held mounted on the far end wall near my moveable bench to use for cleaning off feet and rinsing after shaving and if two are showering it gives us each a water zone too. I only did one thermostatic valve sense nine out of ten times only one person is showering at a time.

Thank you for looking at this! :)

localeater - yes - we will do no door. There will be a 24" glass panel to protect the vanity. But I think I could still use the other side as a shower without a door? The drain will run along the 8ft. Wall away from the bathroom, so the shower will be sloped that direction.

Thanks roarah. That makes me feel better about one thermostat valve. I will definitely do a hand shower but on the open wall.

lakeviewgirl - I really like your idea. The problem that we struggled with is that the large wall, where you have the handheld shower, will be a wall of heath dimensional tile and we wanted to make it a focal point. It will be alternating crease in/crease out tile like the samples below. So we cant put anything on that wall to interrupt it. The vanity will appear to float against glass like in the pic below. I was thinking of putting the handheld shower piece on the side with no wall, along with a shower head. Do you think that would be okay spot for it? It is just a skinny handheld shower. There will be a glass panel between the vanity and the shower, so it looks like it is truly floating. I can hang towels on the wall next to the shower. I think I could still dry off in the shower? I was thinking of finding a neat little mobile shower bench and/or the designer suggested a built in tiny shelf into the wall to put your foot in while shaving.

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Would you ever really use the second shower head that is 8 feet from the one you'll use the most? A handheld would be more important to me than a second shower head, and then a bench or "foot shelf" to use to shave my legs. I'd skip it all together, save the cost of the plumbing for something else.

Can you rotate the shower stall since you are using a lot of room for something you do not seem to need. If you put the shower on the bed room wall it could be three by five or six and than you have room for another storage unit, a free standing piece of furniture, chair or a neat bench out side of the shower for dressing or moisturizing .

i guessed on dimensions so not sure if feasible.

If I'm reading correctly, you are putting in a 24" wide glass piece to contain shower splatter. I agree with lakeviewgirl's suggestion about the pony wall. I don't think 24" is wide enough to keep the shower from splashing the vanity and anyone standing in front of it. We have a 6' long shower with a half pony wall/half glass wall that is 4' long and we still get a little splashing on the floor outside the shower.....

Rockybird, I put a shelf for my shaving my legs in our new shower- you will love it. Honestly my tall narrow niche with footshelf on the bottom is best part of my new shower.

I know you want the vanity to float but I think a 24" glass divider is asking for a mess every time you take a shower. Think about some more, can you rig up a way to demo it? Maybe take a shower today and only close the curtain 24" and put paper on the floor and see it it gets wet.

I agree that a 24" glass partition isn't long enough to prevent water from splashing outside the shower. The bigger problem in your original drawing is that there is absolutely NO partition for the shower head at the bottom. This would cause excessive spray all over your bathroom if someone were using that shower head.

Thank you so much for the comments!

Pamgatten- I was going to put the hand held shower on the side opposite the vanity. Do you think that is okay? There would be a shower head at each end.

The ID drew the glass panel in at 26" next to the vanity, but I will ask if this is sufficient to keep water from the vanity.

kas4 - I was thinking about the shower on that end almost like a wet room, but maybe that wont work if the drywall gets wet. I will check with the ID tomorrow. That is a good point, especially since the shower is only 42" wide.

roarah - I like your design. Thank you! The problem is that the room is only 8 ft wide there, so there wouldn't be much of an aisle.

I really appreciate your points! They are very helpful!!!

Completely different idea: You have more than enough space for the shower ... why not cut out a bit of it and install a built-in bookcase towards the bedroom? No one ever has enough bookcases. Or a shallow closet. Something like this:

I think you can do both shower heads on the top wall and towel hooks at the bottom wall. You can keep a movable shower bench there which you can use either in shower or in change area. I have a little change area right outside my shower with a small bench and hooks for towel. It is great since I like to sit down to put lotion on right after my shower.

BTW, I love the floating vanity (ours is also floating) and open shower idea, however, I do agree that you may need more than 2' of glass to keep the water confined in the shower area. I am assuming you are doing curbless shower ...right ?

Thank you mrs pete and lake view girl. It may be too late to change the design, mrs pete, but I'll pull the plans out tomorrow and take a look at them. I think we already have a built in designed for that area. I think a mobile bench might be the way to go.

The shower will be curbless with a linear drain on the long side of the shower, away from the bathroom.

I am now thinking I will just have to give up and do a complete glass enclosure. I so badly dont want to. I hate having to worry about cleaning the glass. But there will be 8" of space between the glass partition and the vanity.

Now there is another problem...I wanted a small window at the top of the shower but putting the shower head at 7 ft. May mean this isnt possible? There would be great views of the mtn. From there.

I love the idea of a mountain view from the shower, the window is a great idea. I have a lake view from my cottage shower and I love it. Can you reverse the shower head location and have it on the bedroom wall so you look across the 8' directly through the window? You could have a 3' glass wall with a slight bend in to catch water - will your vanity be 20" or 24" deep? If so there is still a 3' opening to walk into the shower.

I have to work in a tiny shelf for shaving legs in our new master bathroom, I like that better than a bench.

Thanks Sochi!!! For some reason, my response didnt post.

I think I have to forfeit the window to get the shower heads at the right height. But the rest of the room is glass, so it should be okay. I think the vanity will be 24" deep, but only 12" high, kind of like below, but with a glass panel 8" from the vanity. It will be 8" from the glass and float. I think the idea is kind of like a wet room.

Yes, I think having the one shower head and hand held in the same vicinity is ideal.

8 feet is quite a distance, if you turned on both shower heads and stood in the middle, 4 foot from each showerhead, how much water from each would you really get on you?

Why not put the window you want where that second shower head would be.

What exactly do you plan on doing with the second shower head? I had a large shower in the house I sold recently. but it wasn't 8 feet long. I can't imagine that you'll really end up using that second shower head, that's why I wonder how you plan to actually use it.