Collection by Jaime Gillin

Modern Ways to Bathe Outdoors

Dwell loves a good outdoor shower or al fresco tub. Here, five of our favorite ways to bathe outdoors, from Wisconsin to Japan.

The ultimate luxury: a hot bath in the clawfoot tub, with the fiberglass door open wide to the woods.
The ultimate luxury: a hot bath in the clawfoot tub, with the fiberglass door open wide to the woods.
Dunlop demonstrates the deck’s secondary use: as a launching pad into the concrete plunge pool on the first floor.
Dunlop demonstrates the deck’s secondary use: as a launching pad into the concrete plunge pool on the first floor.
Bathrooms are places for physical and spiritual cleansing. A green view amplifies the feeling of rest and relaxation in this surfer’s house in San Francisco; the sliding glass panels in the bathroom open to put the tub in the tree canopy.
Bathrooms are places for physical and spiritual cleansing. A green view amplifies the feeling of rest and relaxation in this surfer’s house in San Francisco; the sliding glass panels in the bathroom open to put the tub in the tree canopy.
The glass and wood walls of the bathhouse, like other retractable panels on the house, 

offer shade with a view.
The glass and wood walls of the bathhouse, like other retractable panels on the house, offer shade with a view.