Home Projects: Outdoor Shower

Home Projects: Outdoor Shower

Every season it seems we have a bit of a home project on our hands & I don't foresee it stopping anytime soon. This summer we added our sour orange tree hedge and while they haven't filled in yet, by next summer they'll be nice and full & I can't wait!  On Monday, we will begin our biggest home project yet, adding square footage to our upstairs to make room for this baby.  It's a big project, but one that will add a lot of value to our home financially & make it so much more livable.  I've got that one mostly planned out & in motion, so naturally, I'm moving on to planning the project I want to have done for next summer: an outdoor shower.

I grew up with a very simple version of an outdoor shower & while I rarely actually shampooed off in it, it was nice to rinse the chlorine from my hair.  As a young girl, my hair would turn white-blonde in the summer time...until about halfway through summer where that white-blonde would have a tinge of green to it from the chlorine.  As you can imagine, it was a good look.

The version I'm thinking about will allow for a full shampoo shower experience & hopefully include an outdoor tub as well -- if you're local and see a vintage tub, let me know! This will allow our evening swims to transition right into bath time without all the wet bathing suits + pool towels being tracked inside & upstairs & stashed away on random hooks, dirty clothes hampers & bathrooms all over the place.  Even though, in my mind, everything as a place, I've yet to convince my kids of that.  As such, I tend to wash an absurd amount of pool towels each summer.

I've been noodling on this idea since we moved in...we have the perfect corner spot & the hose hook up is already right there, which means plumbing won't be hard. I've been gathering ideas on my Pinterest board, but here are a few more of my favorites:

The elements I'm mostly loving are a bench, towel hooks, outdoor lighting, potted flowers & flowering vines...which is sometimes hard for Arizona to achieve, but we're going to try!