[fekq]

shed now built (hurrah). so the next issue is what colour to paint it?

I have a vision in my mind of a white/pale cream one (possibly with sage green gables and window frames)... however, other half claims this is "impractical" as it will get mucky very quickly and that I should paint it a sensible colour like brown.

shed is currently in a sea of mud but plan is that it will be surrounded next year by a gravel/slab path and raspberry canes.  

has anyone painted their timber palace in a so-called "impractical" colour successfully??

photos welcomed!!

[Ice]

Paint it whatever colour makes you happy.  You can always change it if it doesn't work out.

[fekq]

yeeeeessss.... but i'll also open myself up to endless "I-told-you-so's" from OH!

[Ice]

Just say "you never know unless you try".

If it doesn't work out just tell the OH that you have changed your mind and don't like the colour anymore.

[muntjac]

wood coloured here still  

[compostqueen]

Brown  :shock:   Nah, naff colour and totally lacking imagination

I painted mine to match the flowers





Lupine from Sadolin and the infill colour is Willow I think     Brown indeed (shakes head   )

[Kiwi]

compostqueen, that's one beautiful shed!
I have something I call my wee shed where I work away, but it's more of a summer house.
I painted it cream with pale blue window frames ad it doest get dirty at all - just use good outside paint!

[compostqueen]

mine doesn't get mucky either, well not the outside  

[Beetroot queen]

hubby had brown but the kids play house before we used it for fire wood (they had out grown it) was a lovely blue, much to hubbys annoyance and the neighbours face was a pic  :shock:  

[fekq]

love your shed compost queen! thanks for the pics!

[compostqueen]

In the Sadolin colours there's Forget me not which is a pretty blue and a new amethyst colour which would work really well.  I would have gone for that but opted for the green and used deep pink flowers.  I have lots of clay pots of chives and they look great on the window ledge when all in flower  

[fekq]

there's a strange thought process at work in the Sadolin naming department. they have a colour called Speculum?!!

[compostqueen]

bleurgh  :!:  (sticks tongue out   )

You sure it's speculum and not spectrum  

[Etherelda]

I like this shed:

BRIGHT SHED

sorry I can't add pic, its a gif and not a jpeg, and my brain doesn't want to work this afternoon.



Dunno who's it is but my OH won't let me do the shed on our drive like this. Unfortuntly the shed on the lottie is metal, and beige. Can't paint it.

[mumofstig]

Quick tell aunt sally that shed will match her curtain material. Perhaps we need to change sheds not material.............