Double door? Outswing door/double doors?

A pocket or barn door would eliminate the swing issues.

in my last house , I had the door swing toward the shower door. My bathroom entry door was probably 5 to 6 inches from the shower door (sliding shower door) when open and I used a hinge restrictor to make sure it did not open into the shower door, which it never did. I even hung an over the door towel holder to hold the towels for showering.

Is your door as close to the shower as you show it? I would move the door opening a little closer to the vanity.

@Sammy - I am not sure I am following, what kind of double door are you thinking about. Do you have a picture example?

Unfortunately, the entry door to the bedroom is adjacent to the entry to bathroom, so having two doors swing into that space would just be a nightmare.

@Joe Thourot LEED AP - We would love to have a pocket door, but the internal wall stuff (plumbing/electrical/structural) makes it impossible. The ceiling height in hallway outside the bathroom unfortunately doesn't give us enough space for a barn door. We've looked for ones that don't need a rail above the door, but haven't been able to find anything that would work.

What about having hinges on both sides with doors that swing in and out? Did that in my very small laundry, works really well.

https://johnsonhardware.com/2610f-wall-mount-sliding-door-hardware

I would arrange for the door to swing towards the shower. Especially if you have been told that there are ways to prevent the door from hitting the glass. Then, the switches can be placed on the short wall near the vanity. My logic for this swing is....ask yourself how many more times you will use the vanity and toilet area vs. the shower. The swing against the shower facilitates the area of the room that you will use most often. Good luck!

Just to add, I would never swing the door toward the vanity. Someone standing there would get hit when the door opens. Plus the light switch is better with the door opening against the shower.

If you room is 11 feet long or more, you could put a 24 to 27 inch wide tall cab near the light switch and do a smaller vanity to the left and have the door open against the tall cab.

That messes with the light switch.

Is the shower glass on two sides? Or can the plumbing move to another wall?

I would double the thickness of the wall. You could have the standard 4.5" thickness for the electrical needed for the bathroom and another 4.5" empty wall to slide the pocket door.

When we added an extra closet in our master bathroom, we had these petite French doors ordered through Lowes. You'd want solid instead of with glass. The 2 doors make up a 30 inch opening and swing in toward me to open. They can also be closed from within.

I would choose to have the door swing and open against the shower. But if it were my space, I would drywall the area that the door would open up against and then tile the inside of that part of the shower. You would lose a little glass, but to me that would be the best solution. If you did that, that spot inside the shower would be a great place for a niche that could actually hide all the ugly shower paraphernalia. Shower niches are pretty....until they get filled up with a bunch of shampoo bottles etc)

As Karenseb suggested, a hinge restrictor is a simple fix. I would definitely swing the door towards the shower.

I have a barn door into the vanity area of my master bath. Hardware is wall mount. Not sure why that wouldn’t work for you even with bulkhead.