With that design you have to turn on the shower while in it. You also have to think about ease of cleaning if you want to use the hand shower to rinse the shower. I would also be concerned about stepping out onto a wet floor.

You have room for a hinged or pivot door but you'd need a pony wall. Our bathroom is 5' wide and my plan was to have a 28" door and a 32" pony wall, moving the shower controls to the pony wall because the valve is on the wall behind the toilet.

This bathroom has a 32" x 60" shower. I have other pony walls in my Shower Ideabook.

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A shower curtain would solve all your problems, or you could avoid having to have any glass or curtain and waterproof the whole room and go curbless.

Other than looking cool, are rainshower heads functional to use? Or do people get tired of them and put the traditional style shower head back in?

Thanks for the input.

On the waterproofing of the floor, he talked about using ditra, but I don't have the details yet.

I don't care for shower curtains.

Maybe we could we put a pony wall, glass partition above, valve in pony wall, and then just not install a door, see how we like it, and install a door later if we decide we need one? I'd have the door open inward and outward. I could see that working. I'd plan on having a curb because even though the floor would be waterproofed, I think it would be better to keep the water as contained as possible.

I have to think about the shower fixture.

Thanks.

You could do a swinging door that opens both inward and outward. For code/safety purposes it has to be able to swing outwards as well, but when you're using it, there should be room for an inward swing. You can do the swinging door without a pony wall. Otherwise, there are several options of sliding shower doors if you would prefer a true enclosure as opposed to an open panel style.

If you're able to do a pony wall with just a glass top, that'd be my choice over a full panel, especially if your controls are on the toilet side. We can't move ours to the open side because it's an outside wall. There's also less glass to squeegee with the half-height panel. You might want to make the pony wall longer, though keep in mind that if you may add a door later, you need to consider the door width now. 24" is the smallest opening they recommend for a shower door, though 26" is my minimum. As for the height of the pony wall, it made sense to have the controls at doorknob height because that was a comfortable reach. Don't forget to block inside the wall for possible future door.

Please keep us posted as you make your decision. We're doing our floor and vanity now but we put off the shower decision until after the holidays. What is the dimension of your shower?

Thanks for the input. I just measured my master shower door and it's 28.5". I think I will plan for a 26" door, swinging inward and outward. I like the idea of the pony wall being a little bit longer and just leaving the 26" space for the future door. My contractor is very thorough and will be sure to block for a door and grab bar to be installed in future if desired. Definately will put the controls in the pony wall like we did in master.

The depth of the room right now is 64" from the current finished shower tile to the wall. So without encroaching on the 30" space for the toilet, we could get a 34" depth shower. That's still pretty small, but don't see a way to make it deeper without expanding the scope and $$ by stealing space from adjacent attic. If money were no object we would look into doing that. I'll ask the contractor about it, but I don't think budget will allow.

Our MB shower is 60 x 34" and we don't find it too narrow. It even has two bulky seats in the corners, which we'll eliminate when we remodel it.

You could do a wall-hung toilet to open up the space visually, but that's a bigger expense.