25 September 2007
Perfectly formed
It’s taken us a while, but this weekend we put the finishing touches to the shed.
It might be small, not even a shed at all really (”Grande Storage” is what the manufacturer calls it), but it absolutely does what we want it to do. Look at the foldaway table on the door - how useful is that? And what about the corner shelves? Plus we can now hang up all our garden tools and keep them out of the weather. We’ve not put everything in that will eventually be stored there, but it’s getting there. No, you’re right, there isn’t room for the wheelbarrow.
In such a small garden (tiny, teeny weeny) everything useful has to look good as well or you end up with ugly corners that spoil the whole. This is functional and pretty (rather like my good self). That colour? “Seagrass” according to the tin. Blue/green to you and me. It picks out some of the greener pieces of slate quite nicely - this hasn’t just been thrown together you know.
So, it may have an identity crisis and an inferiority complex, but at least I can relax knowing that it matches the paths.
Filed under: Potager project — Clare @ 3:59 pm
This is the shed I dream of … it’s not that we don’t already have a shed, in fact we have too many. It’s just that when I have 20 minutes to do a quick bit of gardening, the first 30 minutes are spent looking for my trowel / small border fork etc. So I want one of these, with a VERY LARGE LOCK … where did you get it??
Joanna
joannasfood.blogspot.com
PS it’s such a good colour - was that you, or did it come like that?
(25.09.07 @ 7:24 pm)
Hi Joanna - I have to say that even when it ends up with a lot of stuff in it, I suspect it will be veyr hard to lose anything in it. The shed was from here: http://www.shedstore.co.uk/ite.....nd_Storage
We painted it ourselves with a garden paint we picked up from B&Q. We bought a sturdy lock ourselves as it doesn’t come with the shed. It’s been a bit of a pian to put together, but we just about managed to hold onto our sanity. Shelves and fold-up table are included, but the ’struts’ that we’ve hung the tools from were added by Owen made from some old pallets we have left over from having the slate delivered.
(25.09.07 @ 8:46 pm)
Thanks, Clare. I’m either going to have to find someone who can build the shed for me, or one that’s ready-made …. because there’s no chance of getting the people-who-take-my-tools-and-spread-them-round-the-garden (who shall be nameless) to build me a Fort Knox for my tools!
Joanna
joannasfood.blogspot.com
(26.09.07 @ 9:40 am)
My monster is beginning to sink under the weight of concrete we are storing in there!! eek!
(26.09.07 @ 12:11 pm)
Hi Joanna, I think there is an option for you to order the shed and have them assemble it for you, but it does cost another £70-£80 or so. If we could have afforded it I think we would have taken that option because it definitely saves a lot of heartache and possibly means you end up with a more perpendicual end result!
HB - You need a shed audit. Or perhaps your spider colony is just way too big.
(26.09.07 @ 4:24 pm)
HB - hang on - why are you storing concrete in your shed?
(26.09.07 @ 4:24 pm)
It gets wet outside, trips me up in the kitchen and makes the bedroon dusty. Silly.
(27.09.07 @ 8:35 am)
Let me re-phrase that - why do you have so much concrete that needs storing?
(27.09.07 @ 9:06 am)
Building work, dear heart! I’ve just built a mini-wall along the end of the patio I’ve just built. I’ve got another mini-wall to build and then the patio to grout/cement
(27.09.07 @ 12:59 pm)
Blimey. Keeping busy, aren’t you?
(27.09.07 @ 1:05 pm)
Sigh. Yes. It’s not all SL and moonlighting on other blogs you know. Mores the pity.
(27.09.07 @ 1:50 pm)
Still, no-one could accuse you of wasting your life, could they? You’re certianly packing a lot in!
(27.09.07 @ 2:16 pm)