If you have a decent sized garden, you are bound to need a practical shed to store garden equipment and as a place to prepare plants and seedlings if you do not have the luxury of a greenhouse. Most sheds are hidden away at the bottom of the garden, often out of sight from the house. If they are lucky, they might have the felt roof maintained every couple of years and a coat of creosote splashed over the walls from time to time, but quite often our garden sheds are a neglected storage ground for tools and children’s toys, old pots of paint and odd cuts of timber.
However, you could turn your neglected shed into an attractive garden feature. Sheds don’t have to be painted brown. Try splashing on some pastel coloured paint, maybe using contrasting colours for the walls and the door. Make a porch area around the door by extending the roof and laying some paving slabs, allowing room for a couple of lounge chairs and some bright ceramic pots filled with Summer petunias and geraniums. Hang a couple of hanging baskets to the outside walls of your shed. Extend the paving slabs to the sides and with some painted timber struts you could construct a small veranda around two or three sides of your shed.
Before you know it, you’ll be spending more time pottering around your new look shed than relaxing inside your home…