How we Built our DIY Outdoor Shower Enclosure: Graystone Beach Cottage

We recorded this DIY outdoor shower enclosure video over a year and half a ago! 🙈 We're so happy to finally share it with you. It takes you through our planning process and building the wooden outdoor shower. An outdoor shower is a great way to keep the sand and mess out of your cottage or lakehouse.
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[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

Thank you so much for watching! We hope you find this video helpful as you're planning your own outdoor shower enclosure planning. For more info, visit us on the blog: sustainmycrafthabit.com/diy-outdoor-shower-enclosure/ . Please do share this video if you find it useful. - Jane & Sonja

[@caseykittel]

have you guys done the pluming yet? would love to know what you chose!

[@lucyschaefer2144]

When I was growing up we did not have running water my mom built a shower enclosure similar to yours and she mounted two 55 gallon drums ,painted Black , on the top and during the day the sun would heat up the water and when my dad got home from work he could take a shower. My mom was very handy.

[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

Wow! Your mom sounds like an amazing and resourceful woman. Thank you so much for sharing this memory with us and the tip about the drums! I hope you're having a wonderful weekend Lucy. -Jane

[@LiyanaDIY]

Looks so peaceful and beautiful there 😍❤️

[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

Thank you so much! It really is. So nice to have some nature to get to away from the city. Thank you for watching. -Jane

[@singingtelegrams7183]

This was helpful and adorable and so
Wholesome thank you!

[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

You are so welcome!

[@truecolorsbyvango8083]

Beautiful

[@laurasinclair8712]

Thanks for sharing this very helpful video. Using pavers is practical and they look really nice too! Great job!

[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

So glad you've found this helpful! We're 3 years in and it still looks great! Hope you get lots of use out of yours this summer. -Jane

[@BibiProvenceBBSmoothMusic]

Love it!!

[@angeloalpala]

You give me a few good tips for my project..thank you.

[@designdoctor247]

Very nice 👌

[@dmcguire1442]

Very nice...love it

[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

Thank you so much 😊

[@rl13b99]

Thanks a lot! This is very helpful and gave me some great ideas for my outdoor shower project.

[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

Glad we could help! -Jane

[@jamiemaciborsky5989]

You are a great woman! Nice job with the explanation

[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

Thank you so much! Glad you found it helpful! -Jane

[@loveforever17]

Simple and effective project. Would like to see the completed project in another episode. Perhaps the towel hooks should have gone on outside wall.

[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

Thank you Jem! Great suggestion. We'll add another video for how we added the water and a door. Thank you for the suggestion! -Jane

[@paulparks3588]

Looks really good I did mine some way similar and I did the solar lighted caps on the post so they light up at night the straight so does yours

[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

That's such a great idea. Ours don't light up, but would look amazing! -Jane

[@ejcastro9518]

So after a year, how has it been? My only concern, as someone who maintains outdoor structures, that two inch gap leaves a lot of room for spiders and other insects to build nests. The shower turned out very nice

[@DanielinLaTuna]

Thanks for sharing. Did you run into any tree roots? I don't know much about catalpa tree; some trees have surfaced feeder roots. How hot are summers in the part of Canada?

[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

Hi Daniel. Sorry for the delay. Yes, we did run into some roots and had to cut through them (small roots though). The catalpa is pretty hearty so it didn't bother and we haven't had trouble with feeder roots. But that should definitely be kept in mind. Our summers are quite humid with temps around 30C . Hope that helps! -Jane

[@sandysanford9506]

Am about to embark on this project...wondering if you had shifting of the concrete blocks as frost comes out of ground post winter. We are dealing with PEi read mus as ground.

[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

Hi Sandy. No, we haven't had any problems and we do get quite a bit of water (and freezing) in the winter here. It's been 4 years and it's holding up as strong as when we built it! -Jane

[@stephaniebernnal3170]

How many inches gravel did u pour?

[@godtalkstonormalpeople]

Did you not concrete or screw the footing blocks in ? Is this not needed? How do they hold fast?

[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

Hello! No - the cement deck blocks work really well. We've installed three of these showers in different locations and haven't had any issues. Once you brace everything together, the shower doesn't move at all. -Jane

[@MasterRML120]

Hi, This videos bout 2 yrs old now. How has this design held up?

[@Sustainmycrafthabit]

Honestly, great! We’ve built two more in the same way. We use this one every day in the summer and it’s perfect. Thanks for watching! -Jane

[@Youshallneverknow2]

Need to do less talking and showing more of the actual project