hi there thanks for the update. The one flaw in this beautiful bathroom? There's always one thing! Thank you for letting me know about this detail, because I was seriously thinking of doing it this way myself. In terms of your bathroom, I wonder if a very neat bead of silicone on the top only - of the join between the glass and the vanity - could help? This way the underneath is still fee to breathe and not gather gunk. But I guess then you don't get that lovely clean glass feeling from inside the shower.....

My walk in was well over a metre deep and width was a couple of metres to the wall. The glass screen was a metre and a bit so there was no splashing into the room. The shower came off the end wall same as the pic however it was one of those variable height showers on a rod, I have no doubt the shower in the pic will be splashing into the room which would drive me nuts. Mine looked great, so open, neat, big, except the floor hadn't been layed properly so instead of the water going toward the drain under the shower head it went all over the bathroom, nearly 3 metres out right down to the loo creating a massive puddle in front of the vanity as well. Getting it sorted with the builder was nightmare I eventually gave up and ended up having a low barrier installed from glass to wall. It still looked fine and stopped the problem but one really has to ensure the floor angle is done properly before embarking on the walk-in shower exercise.

Hi Austere. Thanks for your comments. I guess it depends on your scope really. This renovation combines three rooms into one, so a fair bit of reframing, and moving plumbing around to achieve the clients desired layout. The laundry is behind sliders, behind from where the pictures are taken from, so this is a very large room. $15k is achievable, but you would need to be working on a more regular sized bathroom, stick closer to the original layout to save on plumbing & electrical, probably scale back a bit on tiling and fittings, and go to a standard sized cabinet shower rather than a large customized walk-in shower with glass to the ceiling. There are certainly more modest options available to meet budget. Please let me know if we can be of any assistance 🙂

Hello, we'll be moving into our almost completed new-build home at Jervis Bay (NSW South Coast) in about two weeks. Our intention is that this will be the 'forever' house, so we researched the Livable Housing Design Guidelines pretty carefully, aiming to design, as much as possible, for aging in place. Our end result is at the photos below. There's wide access, with no lip and shower space itself is huge at 1235mm x almost 2500mm. The tiled 'seat' is 465mm tall and 435mm deep, and the 'wedge' in the corner is 300mm above FFL. The heavy-duty grab rails are definitely strong enough and sufficiently solidly mounted that an adult leaning weight on to them won't be a problem. We made sure that the shower mixer is accessible from outside the wet area, to allow a future carer to control shower without getting wet, if needed. The 50mm set-down visible in two of the photos will be filled with 20mm river stones, and will feature a few tall-ish potted plants that should thrive with the humidity of the shower, and the light through the tall glazed door. The double-glazed tilt/turn door includes integrated Venetian blinds, which can be adjusted to restrict the view inwards from the adjacent first fairway of the golf course behind! While we're not in the house yet, we're pretty happy! Good luck with your design.