"Garden Project"; Are you Serious, an Outhouse?

Nice huh, out house? you don’t see many of those around anymore, actually Mark my family used one until I was about 11 or 12 years old. Then we got runnin water in the house. I tell you, I/we were never so happy to get anything than an inside john. mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

Mark – nicely built outhouse, it must be a women thing. Susie has been asking to have one built and put in one of her flower gardens. One in the shop is not enoough for her. Now that she has seen this post and loves it , I am sure that she will be asking again.

Thanks for the post … I think

-- Joel Tille

Great story, Mark. I snickered all the way through it. We all need something in life to keep us humble – but an outhouse? What a hoot. For your interest, in Australia this is known as a dunny.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

I love weird things like that. My parents would probably ask you to build them one if they saw it. They would definitely get a kick out of it.

That’s so great!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Vincent Van Gogh -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Great Mark. I gentleman just up the road from me has about 2-3 in front of his woodworking business. He sell them all the time. he uses palet lumber to make them. He told me that he had one customer order ten of them for resale in his garden center.

Maybe this is a Delaware thing.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Every month I go to the local Antique sale. There is a guy there that always has a couple for sale. So may be more widespread.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Karson:
We’ve got an actual one from the old railroad station that once stood in Lexington, SC. We use it for a pump house as we do not have city water here. I’ll have to post a picture.
Mark:
I don’t see these for sale at Harbor Freight or Walmart per your “Adirondack” project post. Could be a real money maker. Thanks for the great post.

-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC

Mark, You even make an old fashion necessity look like I would want to own one. Nice job done.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

We had one of these as a “back-up” many years ago. The only time it was necessary to use was when it was raining or snowing because the water table was to high and the indoor toilet wouldn’t work. Never enjoyed it very much…..a little cold. Yours looks much nicer than ours was. Nice job.

-- robbi

Great water closet!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

We still have our outhouse at the cabin, but converted it into a garden tool shed. Of course I filled the hole first.
We went modern now, & have a composting toilet.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

I have used them as late as a few years ago, when I had my remodeling business. I used to travel a lot and ended up working on a house out in the middle of No Place, Texas. The had running water to an older house but that was locked up when we where there, so they landowner kept the old outhouse clean and ready for us. It was a bit rough. I ended up hauling a seat with us, becuase the thing was built in the early 1900’s and it showed.

BTW, Great project! I am thinking of building one to house all my garden hand tools in so I can get them out of my shop.

I remember my last trip to the outhouse when I was a wee little girl. We also had an outhouse out in the fields. It was a treasure – much better than going behind a bush.
See? An outhouse isn’t just an outhouse—it’s memories; it’s a tie to our pasts

Rick and I want to build one with our old barn boards that we have. We want to store rakes and shovels in it.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Don’t be ashamed of the outhouse project, Mark. Back in the ‘60’s two of my uncles spent 6 months on the Navajo Res. building outhouses because the bottom dropped out of the houseing market in Phoenix. I’ve seen some neat ones. I think I was 14 before we ceased to have 8 rooms and a “path”. You did a great job.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

That is nice. And interesting comment.

-- Jiri