Summer shower - do-it-yourself blueprints, projects and construction stages (135 photos)
One of the privileges of owners of summer cottages and private houses is the ability to build an outdoor shower. Moreover, there can be many options for this building: from an economical temporary building to a capital building with stone cladding, which fits into the exterior style.
The use of water procedures in the air for hardening and relaxation is undeniable, but before you make a summer shower yourself, or purchase and install a ready-made model, it does not interfere with understanding the features of its design and layout.
Materials for a summer shower
Practically any building material intended for outdoor use can be selected depending on the budget and needs for building a shower. It can be a frame, block structure or a building made of wood, brick, stone.
To assemble the frame, a metal profile or pipes are most often used. The cabin can be assembled independently using a grinder and a welding machine, using PVC film, tarpaulin, profiled sheets and plastic panels for facing PVC.
In my ideal version, to make a three-story house, the last of the floors would be an attic. At the same time, the house would not be small and in breadth to accommodate enough premises, both technical and household, as well as bedrooms and places for relaxation, including a workshop and a winter garden. And in the long term, the garage in the house itself should be large, for two cars + a place for different things. Agree, such a house can be placed on 6 standard acres, however it will be a house, but without a garden and a cozy house territory.
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Showers of these materials can also be purchased ready-made. As a rule, they are equipped with tanks with a capacity of 200 liters, there are models of a summer shower with heated water and a locker room. The price range (in the Russian market - 15-30 thousand rubles) is determined primarily by the facing materials.
The advantage of buying a ready-made summer shower: professionally calibrated dimensions of the structure, an adequate selection of fasteners and moisture resistance of the lining.
Another factory-made version is plastic showers with non-separable enclosed cabins, with a built-in sink, a combined locker room and an electric water heater.
Self assembly examples
With the initial dimensions of the shower cubicle with an area of 1 square meter and a height of 2 meters with a small one, you need to calculate the required number of blanks for the frame: steel corners 5x5 cm, or 2mm profile pipe with a cross section of 4x2 cm. The length of the blank for racks should take into account an additional 20-30 cm for concreting.
At the next stage, standard welding of the structure is done, then a concrete screed for the floor, into which the vertical posts are buried. Then - welding the frame and installing a hinged door. It remains to clad the booth with building sheets, film or other waterproof material.
To drain the water, you can use a pallet with an outlet pipe, or provide a sewer at the stage of concrete screed. A flat plastic water tank when choosing the appropriate size will also become a roof for the building.
Such a makeshift shower cubicle will not be difficult to equip with a locker room, doubling the area of the structure and fencing off the compartment with a curtain. Instead of a concrete floor, you can make a wooden floor, leaving spaces for draining water into the pallet.
Wooden bars and planks are another available material for building a summer shower.At the same time, you can abandon the concrete screed, strengthening the strength of the wooden frame with metal fasteners or additional angular braces.
As the cladding, you can use boards, logs, or make a braid of twigs. As you can see by looking at the photos of summer showers, wooden structures made professionally and with quality materials can easily fit into a well-groomed landscape.
From wooden planks or profiles, with unprecedented speed, you can build unpretentious folding options for an outdoor shower with a small tank, the walls of which can be curtained with an awning.
Wall mounted summer shower
To build a cabin adjacent to the wall of the house, or an outbuilding with water supply, you will not need a frame and a tank, water of the right temperature will be supplied from the general system, without restrictions on capacity, which will significantly increase the comfort when taking a shower.
In this option, it is worth paying attention to the waterproofing of the walls and drainage. It will be necessary to ensure the water resistance of the wall coverings of the house and the extension. On a plot of land within reach of water, it will be necessary to lay out a drainage layer of pebbles, or make a concrete screed to allow water to drain into the sewer system.
Having picked up a suitable secluded corner for a faucet with a shower outside, you can refuse partitions and get special pleasure from water procedures in free space under the open sky.
If there is no such architectural possibility, then a pipe with a curtain may be enough to enclose a shower. In other cases, an open shower room can become a comfortable and stylish part of the exterior.
The walls of the extension, without restrictions on area and shape, can be made of brickwork, stone, concrete, tiled, wood, metal profiles and other materials.
An outdoor shower can also be provided when planning an external toilet, combining the supply and drainage of water, moreover, the compartment with a washstand will also serve as a dressing room. The combination of shower and bath in the open air is another fashionable innovation in the layout.
Summer Shower Design Ideas
Professional design projects in the photo once again remind you that not only the external cladding of the shower cubicle is important, but also the comfort inside the building. Therefore, before starting the construction of a standard design with a minimum area that satisfies only hygienic needs, it is worth considering other options.
If there is a common interior design project - path fences, supporting walls, it is advisable to fit the booth into the general style. It will be much easier to do this at the design stage, making the optimal layout and combination of decorative and functional elements of landscape design.
So, for example, you can make the original wall of natural stone by dry masonry. Giving the perimeter of the wall a rounded shape, or building it like a blank element of a rectangular labyrinth without doors, you can create an original and convenient building without doors with a place for a locker room with hangers and low barriers like benches and bar counters.
The streamlined original concrete structures that can be painted in any color, combined with a shower suspended on a dry tree - is another stylish solution.
Rectangular structures made of white plastic with a removable roof, equipped with a designer set of plumbing and decor, will be an elegant addition to the minimalist architecture. High-quality wood paneling is ideal for eco-style, painted in soothing colors of slats - an option for fans of Provence.
Combining and zoning with decorative tiles, pebbles and flat stones for flooring, painted concrete and stone will recreate the atmosphere of the tropics.
Sheathing from unpainted corrugated board for an adjoining wall in combination with a wooden floor is a relatively cheap and easy option for an external shower adjoining the house.
To increase the primordial effect of design buildings, water tanks and outlets are masked, or a separate line of water supply, sewage and lighting for the summer shower is envisaged. Typically, such capital buildings are built near the residential area, so this approach can be fully justified.
In modern summer showers, it is also justified to use ready-made shower stands for outdoor use, equipped with a pump. At the same time, the construction of fences can be replaced with a waterproofing decorative wall and a drainage floor, and take a shower in bathing suits.
Plants in tubs or flowerpots are also used to decorate showers. Climbing cultures can create a living fence.
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it’s good when there is a shower in the country, worked, washed, lay down on relax, relaxed ... and the country will be a pleasure…
I completely agree that if you live in the private sector or you have a summer house there, then there must be a shower on its territory! In the summer, after work in the garden, nothing refreshes, since the outdoor shower)) We built our own from brick, inside the walls and floor tiles. There is a drain for water. Above there is a tank with water, which is heated naturally from the sun. Of course, this will last longer than wooden))
Aluminum can sprayer - original move)) Summer shower - childhood memory. She rested with her grandmother in a village in the southern region, so the water was heated quickly in the tank and it was periodically updated with black paint. Then there was no such variety of materials for construction, so the construction was a small shed, which was in the garden. The water that was washed spread with the help of grooves around the garden, such a "self-watering".
I can’t even imagine a private house or a summer house without a summer shower. After a hard day at the garden, it is very pleasant to refresh yourself in the summer shower. I read a lot about the fact that water heated by the sun is very useful for the body. So you can say harden yourself. You can’t drive grandchildren out of the summer shower at all, splashing like ducks. Our souls are already a little old of course, it's time to update. Ideas in the article a dime a dozen, we will make a new one with my husband.
With the acquisition of the cottages began to think about the various buildings on the site. At first there was a bath, now they wanted a summer shower) They put together a standard shower cabin from wooden boards and screwed the tank on top. It turned out simply, beautifully and conveniently 🙂 And the water from above collects rainwater, but if you don’t like this, you can pour fresh or warm water yourself to wash yourself comfortably. Also, thanks for the ideas of water flow, and for a long time we thought about how best to do.
Summer shower - an integral part of a country house! In the heat, this is our salvation, put it on the corner of the site, so as not to catch the eye. We have two exits to the faucet, one of the tank (it is on the roof, heated by the sun and the water is warm there), and the second is directly from the hose, there the water invigorates what you need!)) We decided not to make it completely closed, so the bottom and the upper levels were not covered with wooden beams.
An outdoor shower is a mandatory building on all land plots. Yes, just wash yourself after the garden or freshen up - this is an ideal place. And now, more and more often, summer souls cease to be like a plain-looking booth with a barrel at the top - now it is a work of art and design, it’s nice to take a look.
I’m planning something in the style of a wooden house with many open areas for steam to escape and the formation of mold. I love simple and concise solutions, although beautiful.