Because you can’t just put a square next to a dome, either. Though I might steal Oval Office from your commenter, Janet. Think we’ll call ours the shouthouse, since ours will be a shower/outhouse combo. Or the pretty (read: not Home Despot orange) buckets. WWBD? (What would Bucky-Fuller do?) Not sure, but your outhouse pictures sure gave us more to work with. And you can’t just stick a shack next to it. We just moved our family from the ‘burbs to the woods and put up an off-grid geodesic dome. Can’t seem to find anything more inspired online other than moon shapes on the door. Google-searchin’ for outhouse ideas as we design a shelter for our composting toilet. LH never stinks, always looks nice, has one job, does it well, we’re so glad to have it. Folks can wash with soap and water back at the cabin. So there’s a little basket on the door that has hand sanitizer, biodegradable wipes and bug spray. We thought about a sink or washing up station with water, but decided against it because it could encourage people to put added water or other materials in “the hole”. I make sure they’re 100% cotton so they can go in the compost pile. They can be tossed after they get too grungy looking. It always has a clean “carpet”, woven placemats from GoodWill. Painted it white inside, tarted it up with a nice porcelain canister to hold the potting soil that goes in after the human deposit original artwork tp in a metal canister so mice can’t use it for nesting. It is really little, barely enough room for one person to turn around. Love your outhouse, love ours too, “The Little House BEHIND The Little House on the Prairie”. We also use this one outside around the pool, cabin and treehouse. We have used the same brand of incense for 20 years.

It is of course, not necessary, but we also burn our fave incense, purely for the enjoyment. If we were to build another outhouse, we’d be smarter next time and make a trap door at the back, to open, and dig out from there.

We dig it out ( using a shovel, through the toilet opening) and dispose of it for a fresh summer start. By the time spring has sprung, everything is composted to earth. At the end of the summer, we leave everything as is, until spring. We also periodically put a refresh of shavings as a top layer too. Every time you use the loo, you put a scoop of wood shavings in. The outhouse becomes a self composting, eco toilet. It is sort of like the classic childhood memory where you learned to never ask your Mom to brush your hair while she was mad. Never ever never never evvvvha (Taylor Swift never) never make a building inspector or town official mad. Many cities & municipalities will allow you to build a small outbuilding under the size of 10′ x 10′ without a building permit. Then get back here and tell me what you named your palace. The good news is that you can create an outbuilding just like this one and it will be no where near icky. The Ruby room, the sunshine mission, the pooter scooter, stinky chicken, the sand box, the Mary Jane, the reading room, the dump truck, the library, the la la, the back house, the thunder box, the deuce den, wooden throne, peepee palace, poopy portal. So I called in the troops (that’s you) and this is what you came up with : I tried to come up with a pretty name for our outhouse.

Out house design