Hey, I know this is an older post, but were you worried about the lack of an access panel for the shower? I'm curious what your plumber and/or contractor said about this. Working on our bathroom now (plumbing on exterior wall), and trying to figure the best way to handle this. Thanks!

The only way to get help here is to post a to scale floor plan . IMO free standing tubs are a PITA to get in and out of and IMO will be as dated as the corner tub you have now very soon.So post the floor plan and also some info as to what can be moved as far as plumbing is concerend. Keep in mind moving a toilet is expensive but can be done. Free standing tubs need lots of space to look right BTW

Hi, Denise. (a) YES on the pocket door. My husband and I redid our master bath and did a pocket door, I love it. (b) Do you really want your closet open to your bathroom? I have never had that, but seems to me the bathroom would get steamy when you take a shower, then your clothes would get subjected to humidity. although understood if that is your only option. (c) re having a WC or privacy wall - someone made a point about it being difficult to get in there with a wheelchair or a walker... agreed. also: we thought about doing that in ours, opted against it. works fine... because DH uses the hall bathroom when he needs to do his business, ha! I use our bathroom but just lock the door. not sure how well that would work for you. Below is the layout of our bathroom in case it helps. the staggered vanities work well for us, and the shower is a nice size. The thing in the lower right corner is a stacked washer and dryer. you could have it be a linen closet.

Okay lots of thoughts going on here, I love it. @Jessica @Andrea C So I'm convinced I need to keep the window for lighting and potential ventilation so that'll stay. My biggest challenge is currently the door opening because with the distance from the entry to the shower both swinging doors open are likely to intersect. Back to that in a second. The reason I have the toilet almost in the corner is because, I'm thinking about a bypass door which would allow the shower user to either go out near the wall with the towel bar, or even just grab the towel to try, or go out near the vanity. If it's me, probably both of those functions. Grab a towel, dry inside shower, then exit near vanity. If I'm able to do the bypass then from the shower door /glass on the toilet side I have exactly 24 inches with is minimum needed for clearance, technically 22 from curb but I'm not worried about that. Okay back to the door, I'm not sure if I can accomplish a bypass in that space having only a knee wall and glass on top of that. I'd rather not make that wall full height because it'll cut off the small space even more. So if no bypass, and I do a knee wall with glass on top, now I have fixed panel with regular sliding (I hope) or swinging. If I go swinging, I'll likely need a pocket door for the clearance, I'm okay with it on a master bath as opposed to a shared bath. Okay lastly storage space. 46" vanity isn't that large but the headknocker should alleviate a lot of this tension, no? Hence also why I don't want to move the toilet closed to shower, visual cutoff and restrictions I'm thinking. Also, the towel bar area, I could play with, I can do bar and hook combo or bar shelf combo, or swinging. In reality I could get away with 16" there, it just won't be centered to curb. It'll be centered glass to headknocker. As far as shower design, I'm thinking bench on both sides and recessed wall shelving on top of the bench, so likely 2 on each wall. Controls would be dead center, probably underneath the window. If I get the placement right, rain showers in front of the benches, so almost to the left and right of the door opening. I'm also thinking about in each (almost) corner placing handhelds. I'm going to take a breath now. Thoughts?