> One joined floor for the shower and rest of the bathroom is a weird non-North American thing that is absolutely wrong and I sure hope isn't catching on here.

> One joined floor for the shower and rest of the bathroom is a weird non-North American thing that is absolutely wrong and I sure hope isn't catching on here. I live in Berlin. One of the two bathrooms in my new apartment (designed in 2016, completed in 2019) has that. It was designed for the half-door thing. I did a few experiments with it with a couple shower heads to see where the water ended up going, and decided you'd need a very large space for it to be workable without getting wet everywhere. My bathroom is only 150 cm wide, and allowing 50-60 cm for a space to walk out of the shower didn't leave enough space to keep water in the showering area. I put in a sliding glass door, and all's good. I think the reason it works sometimes in North America is you more often have redonkulous sized bathrooms where you can have two meters of space behind your showering area.