Hello!

Grateful for views and advice on this shower. Due to several mistakes by the builder plus my own inexperience renovating for the first time, we ended up with the below layout. I know the handheld shower is often offset in many designs but the control valve not being centred with anything really bugs me. When they tried to centre the handheld rail with the valve, the hose kept hitting it. When they tried to centre it with the rain head, the same issue occurred because the rain head is too low. The top of the handheld also hit the rain head and it looked messy given how far away the elbow was.

This layout ended up being the most functional, but it is not what I envisaged at all (I wanted a straight clean line for the rain head and handheld). The hook was added to cover a hole in the tile from the initial incorrect attempt at attaching the fixture (turns out is very handy but only adds to the asymmetry). I also don't like the niche with its incomplete border or the accent tile (tile is my fault but didn't realise the border would be left open). This was the only place the niche could go due to the studs. The right hand side wall was not useable so everything had to go on the one wall.

If I did it again, I would go for a single combined rail system and a plain niche with a mitred edge. The offset valve wouldn't matter then because that's what makes sense for that system (and it made sense with the original set up which was a single shower head in a neo angle shower). I was told retrofitting to a combined rail would not be possible given the height needed for the rain head.

So...how bad does it look? The shower is fully functional so that is not an issue. Any suggestions on how to improve symmetry/ aesthetics without redoing the entire bathroom?

Having the original builder come in to fix it is not an option. I feel I really messed up what could have been a great bathroom!