Outside Bathroom For Pool
Hello hello friends! Outdoor pool bathroom! Let's do this. :) A few weeks ago when I shared pictures of a summer party we hosted for my husband's firm I mentioned our outdoor pool bathroom.Remember how my husband thought that because of that bathroom, nobody would go inside during the party and I was a crazy person for cleaning like a crazy person? We all know how that ended. ;)After that post I received a lot of requests to see our pool bathroom. Since I aim to please (and love my blog readers!) I braved the scorching summer heat and took some pictures for you.
Here are a few pics of the back of part of our house so you can see where the bathroom is located.
A section of our house juts out and the pool bathroom is located on the other side.
You can see the little path you take in-between the overgrown plants. This section of plants still needs some work. On the list. ;)
If you follow the path around to the side of the house you'll see our little outdoor shower.
Just past the shower there are two doors on the side of our house. The first door by the window is the pool bathroom. The second door opens up to a small storage space for pool toys. Which is going to make a great before and after post some day because it's an absolute disaster right now. :)
Come inside! It's a TINY bathroom.
We love having lots of kids over to swim, but I have wood floors inside my house. I knew I wouldn't want wet kids running back and forth, in and out of our house on a daily basis (especially my own three!) so when we designed the house I made sure to add a small outdoor bathroom close to the pool.
Our plan was to not spend too much on this bathroom so we had picked out a piece of granite that was a remnant (a piece leftover from another project) from the store we bought all of our counter top material from. It wasn't my absolute favorite, but it was a great price and I wasn't too worried about what our outdoor pool bathroom looked like. When it was time to use it, the owner of the store called and said they had accidentally sold it to someone else and that he would just give me a piece of quartz left over from two of our other bathrooms and not charge me for it because we had ordered so much quartz from him for inside our house. Score! That was a happy day. Suddenly with my new quartz countertop I decided this little outdoor pool bathroom needed to be pretty after all. ;) {This quartz is called "Cambria Torquay." It's hard to see in this picture but it's white with soft gray veins. We also used it in our office/guest bathroom and my son's bathroom – still need to take pics of those bathrooms at some point!}
I wish I knew this cabinet color because I love it! It was actually a mix of white and a couple of the grays we used inside our house. I told my painter I wanted a really light gray and he kept mixing and adding white until I said "that's it!"
These square tiles were simple and inexpensive. I just wanted something that wasn't too slippery and had gray tones.
The other side of the bathroom! Told you it was small. :)
The paint I chose for this room is a pretty green/blue with gray tones called "Sea Salt" by Sherwin Williams.
We added a built-in cabinet above the toilet for storage.
It was empty when I took this picture because I was washing all of the pool towels and I took everything out to wipe it down. It usually holds pool towels, sunscreen and toilet paper.
I also wanted a place to hang wet pool towels to dry so I had my carpenter make a simple white wood piece (I told him to just copy the top piece of the custom mirror he built for this room) and then we hung some pool towel hooks! (Hooks are from Restoration Hardware and are the same hooks we used inside our mudroom lockers.)
Our favorite striped towels! These were a splurge and go with our backyard pillows. They are so long and soft! Sometimes when they aren't outside I hang them in this bathroom. In the summer they are usually out on the lounge chairs and we hang the kids smaller wet pool towels here.
This room was tricky to photograph because it's so small. I ended up with lots of lovely pictures like this with me in them. Ha! :)
Seriously squished myself to death in the corner to get this shot. Told you all I love you. ;) I can't remember where I got my light fixture from! If I find the info. (I'm sure it's written down somewhere!) I'll add it to this post. And like I mentioned before, I had the mirror frame custom made.
This summer I just added a couple of my $2 glass jars and some simple flowers like I used to decorate my powder bathroom.
That's it! Our outdoor pool bathroom. My kids use this every day when they are outside whether they are swimming or just playing in the yard. It's hands down our most used bathroom and I'm so happy we added it in the plans! If you are building or adding a pool to your yard I'd highly recommend also adding a small outside bathroom.
Well! This tour was a great way to officially end the summer. Now I'm off to get out my pumpkin spice candle! And put it in the outdoor pool bathroom.
Because like it or not, we'll be swimming around here through November.
;)
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