" glass seems complicated. "

It is and will be expensive, quite expensive as it will definitely need to be completely custom. Whether it would work for your application is impossible to tell as you give us no floor plan with dimensions. Visit a local quality glass shop and have them price the shower up before you get too far down this rabbit hole.

Love this idea! You could also leave the doors open to increase the airflow post shower and improve drying.

As long as your slope is such that the doors are over a slope and the water flows towards the drain - I'd say to go for it. But your person that does the zero entry needs to be exacting, and then the glass needs to be installed in precisely the right place.

Nice idea to ditch the neo-angle!

Is there a closet or other room next to the bath where you can steal some room? Baths using a corner shower are typically too small to successfully do curbless. The whole thing has to be sloped as a shower.

Here is the basic layout. We’ve looked into expanding over the first floor, stealing from the bedroom and adding a bath in a separate space, but these are all much more complicated and would require changing first floor ceilings, rooflines, rerouting hvac. We need to squeeze in shower, toilet and vanity in existing space but make it infinitely more functional than the current poorly designed builder grade setup.

Bonus item: the room is under a pitched roof so we have 24in of ceiling before losing height. The joys of an 1880-something house in 2024!

Labeled diagram.

Picture? What is the size of the door?

Door to bathroom is 26.5in sliding barn door

To go curbless you really will to be able to lower the floor for the pan as it is imperative that it is properly sloped for curbless. What is the flooring system? This will not be an inexpensive endeavor. While the room does not "have" to be a wet room, in addition to the proper floor pitch the waterproofing will need to extend into the room several feet. The entire floor will need to be redone.

We are going down to the studs for this room and neighboring bathroom. Looking for a long term solution over prioritizing inconvenience in the short run. But realize we don’t have much to work with here.

Going down to the studs won't get you enough floor space unless you raise the rest of the room, and you probably don't have the height to spare.

Why curbless, anyway? It's mostly used to make the shower easier for people with mobility issues, but I don't think you have the space for anything close to an accessible bathroom. If you need more elbow room, a curb shouldn't impact that. With the correct shower base/receptor/pan, you don't really need curbless to get the open feel of your inspos. You can still use glass on two walls.

Do you need to follow code for this? You don't have enough space for your toilet according to most building codes

I don’t know if this is any good from a quality perspective - but there are kits like this that have a 36” square pan and framed glass that meets at the outside corner:

Carrying the tile onto the toilet wall like they did here will make the room feel so much bigger:

Was going curbless to avoid having the raised corner blocking some of the walking space in the room. The ceiling is pitched where the toilet is so walking around that angle would be a trip hazard.

The toilet is already in that space. I don’t know if we would be required to bring it up to code if renovating. If so, we’re toast. There’s no where else to put it.

Here’s a photo of the space.

See how the curb in the first (but not second) of thinkdesignlive's image is so skinny as to barely be there? That might be the best option.

Before you get too far along in planning, though, get to know your local permitting office and see what you can get away with. Since you're not moving the toilet, you might be okay.

That’s an idea. I’d like to maximize vanity space for storage. I am not super high maintenance, but current vanity drawer space is insufficient.

Love this!