The shower door was installed yesterday. Here's a picture The door is on pivot hinges on the top & bottom. It can be open inward and just clears the rainshower head by 1/8" or so. Pure luck because I wasn't counting on that working so well. The advantage now is that we can put hooks for our towels underneath the window -- and still be able to reach them when we are done showering. If the door had to open outward, the towels would've been behind the shower door. There's really no other good place to put them and the plan was always for hooks under the window. I'm glad it worked out.

80" is the minimum allowable shower or tub/shower ceiling height. That's measured from the surface you stand on. You will not be able to put shower in that space. It will have to go elsewhere. Even 80" is too short in real world showering for anyone over 5'5". You hit your hands when you raise them and it's claustrophobic. The other consideration is base size. 32"x32" is minimum by code, but that's unrealistic in anything but a child's shower. 36"x36" is tight for most adults. 36"x42" would be the minimum I'd want in any place that I'd call a "master", and larger if it could be managed.

I don't have any pix handy, but we put it in our downstairs bath many years ago and it still looks like it does the day it was installed. It's a small room, so there are no seams. We had it installed professionally, though. Maintenance is a breeze, just a mopping with soapy water now and then. I also have it in the kitchen, and of course that needs more vigorous cleaning. I use the stuff recommended by the manufacturer and there's also some sort of "conditioner" they use that goes on afterward, but I do that maybe 2-3 times per year. (No kids, no dogs, though!)

My two bathrooms are as polar opposites as you can possible get! I'll explain: My bathroom (the master ensuite is light (but not white marble, hex floors and white/light gray paint light). Moonlight "travertine like" porcelain floors and walls, Seatones (blue, aqua and sea green) glass tiles, Giallo Ornamentale granite and a light blue ceiling. Dark vanity. Crystal glass sink. The master bedroom and ensuite are totally different from the rest of the house and we're ok with that. Those are private areas. The rest of the house is done in rich warm colors, rich browns, pumpkin, deep golds, plum, dark sage green, bronze and black. DH's bathroom flows with the look of the rest of the house. His granite is mostly black, deep orange, dark gold. His glass sink is a Colbalt Copper color. Floor tiles and tub/shower surround is dark charcoal (basically black with accents of tumbled crema marfil and ORB metals). The walls were just finished today. A beautiful spanish knife texture with a glazed faux finish. Color is reddish bronzed over dark gold base. This is also the bathroom guests will use. It's bold and dramatic. He likes it. I like it too but I much prefer the tranquility of the Caribbean inspired color palette in my bathroom. So yeah, I have no problem with bathrooms looking TOTALLY different <g> Oh, they ARE on opposite ends of the house :)