RE: My Easy-Clean, Walk-In Shower Design
What i have learned from different bath designs and your design.
A seat at the end sucks.
A platform, even 6" wide, parallel to the shower head is preferable. Because you can move closer or further from the shower head, depending on warmth, or depending on if you need to be under the water or out of the water. This is especially helpful when shaving legs.
You do not need to put the control valve where you placed it. You could even place it outside the shower. But, on the wall near the opening would have probably been a better spot.
You can have multiple shower heads.
You can use an expensive diverter/selector valve. Nice control.
Or just use individual volume adjusters on ever shower head. (they are quite common now)
And you could have put the toilet in the other end of the shower. For simple cleaning, of the toilet and your back side. (of course this does have all kind of other drawbacks.)
These are all good and worthwhile ideas, thanks very much for adding them here!
Some of them would have been incorporated had I been starting completely from scratch. Some are definitely a case of "20-20 hindsight," and that's why publishing articles like this, and getting great comments like yours is a worthwhile effort... Particularly for the sake of the readers, and for returning here prior to the next project for recollection/reference purposes.
BTW, since these photos were taken, we have retrofitted a long, goose-neck shower head and a 1.5 gpm low-flow shower head. The gooseneck is one that holds its shape/position and can be aimed just about anywhere.
Thanks a lot for adding to the discussion! :)