The ceiling needs to be sloped so that condensate slides down rather than plopping in big drops on your head. I will make sure the guys doing the shower get the correct slope. I think we originally had wider closet doors. We definitely had them "cheated" toward one wall so that they could just open to either the window (in my closet) or shelving for excess linens (his closet). Somewhere along the line they became 2' doors that are centered. But, no reason not to add 4" and position them as originally intended. It may not work for everyone, but, for us, the width of the WC room is OK. Our current WC room is 2'8" x 5'2" and we are just fine with it. I've even been on crutches & used it w/o any help. The new one is slightly wider, so I truly think, for us, it will work. DH had already done this months ago, but last night, we went into our WC room and measured how the door would swing. With the change of the pivot point, it is actually better. We will think about opening the WC door out. I'm not as concerned about whacking someone when it opens out as much as being able to reach the door to let in a dog that just wants to "visit" with me while I'm on the "throne". Yes, the deep dark secret is that I actually don't completely shut the door that often because I'm just some kind of free spirit who doesn't care if her husband sees her or the dogs want to join the party & rest on the tile. ;^) (I think that last sentence could be categorized as TMI.) Isn't that the point of a custom home, especially one that they will take me out of feet first, that its built for the way the owners live? Yes, we do think about resale, to some extent, since we may not be well enough to stay in it for our whole lives or DD will have to sell it when we pass on. As a matter of fact, the way the bath fits with the bedroom is such that the access to my closet can be changed to be from the bedroom and a bathtub could be put underneath the window in my closet by a future owner. I did try to talk DH into making the closets 7' wide since it wouldn't affect the roof plan. We mocked it up, & saw that it didn't improve things enough to warrant the additional 37 sq. ft. It finally comes to the point that we are ~2600 sq.ft. on the main floor, ~500 sq.ft. on the lower level, for now, & the whole house will be close to 4500 sq.ft. when all of the lower level is complete. That is more than enough for two people and when DD's future family visits, so we called a moratorium on additional square footage unless needed to fix a true "broke". I will look into what we need to do to make the entire wall of the shower glass. That is how we originally envisioned it. I still have to cogitate on the bench. I looked at dimensions for teak shower benches so it should be somewhere between 15" - 18" deep. Thanks - Jo Ann

YES, that's it! The door should be frameless and swing both ways. We enter/exit by swinging the door out into the room. Our shower came set up like this and the only changes we are making during the remodel is to add a long adjustable bar to the handheld. The bar will be a Jaclo and it is a combination slide bar and grab bar. We are also adding a 12" grab bar in the area between the bench and the hinge for shower door. This way someone sitting at the bench will have 2 grab bars they can use to pull themselves up. All things that would have been so so usefull when DH had knee and achilles surgeries. We are doing a 36" frameless glass door. Old opening was narrower. Shower used to have only one 6" can light. We changed it to 2 x 4" LED can lights. All light will be on dimmers. Our sinks and toilet are also in the same place as option#10. Our bath is a bit larger to the west/left side with room for a freestanding soaking tub. We are 5 months into the remodel, but the quartz fabricators are here right now installing counter, bench and shower door jamb/threshold, so other parts can now be finished and we might actually have a finised bathroom in 2 weeks.

When did the fellow measure this job? The measuring should take place after the tile is installed. Most times you see plus or minus maybe 3/16". Depends on size and thickness of glass. Clear shims take the weight until the silicone sets up. Removing them will not make any change in appearance than slicing them. With 3/4" gaps I would be telling the boys to take it back and try try again. Who's glass guy? Yours or the builder? I've used the same guy for 14 years. I have sent back one piece in all that time. I have one client who dislike my guy and other than that a perfect record. These glazers should be using levels and plumb lines to do the job right. To be perfect the fix panes should go in first and then doors measured.

Hi my bathroom is the same dimensions as yours, and the entry door is 23". After we installed the tile, the interior dimensions got a bit smaller due to the thickness of the tile etc, which is why we have 52" wall to wall at the shower threshold. Think about access to your valves when you decide on your shower door design. We couldn't move ours to the opening opposite the shower opening since a) it's an exterior wall, not recommended b) we would have had to build the wall out and would have lost space inside the shower. We couldn't move our toilet or sink, this is an apartment building.