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Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed (resolve a domestic)
Post by: fekq on December 09, 2008, 11:30

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!!

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: Ice on December 09, 2008, 12:08

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

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: fekq on December 09, 2008, 12:32

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

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: Ice on December 09, 2008, 13:40

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. :wink:

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: muntjac on December 09, 2008, 19:31

wood coloured here still  :lol:

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: compostqueen on December 09, 2008, 19:38

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

I painted mine to match the flowers

(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e213/englishmiss/misc/P8030012.jpg)

(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e213/englishmiss/misc/P7200001.jpg)

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

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: Kiwi on December 09, 2008, 20:10

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!

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: compostqueen on December 09, 2008, 20:23

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

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: Beetroot queen on December 09, 2008, 21:16

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:  :lol:

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: fekq on December 10, 2008, 08:43

love your shed compost queen! thanks for the pics!

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: compostqueen on December 10, 2008, 08:53

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  :D

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: fekq on December 10, 2008, 09:02

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

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: compostqueen on December 10, 2008, 09:26

bleurgh  :!:  (sticks tongue out  :lol: )

You sure it's speculum and not spectrum  :lol:

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: Etherelda on January 03, 2009, 16:08

I like this shed:

BRIGHT SHED (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbell/2770880078/)

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.

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: mumofstig on January 03, 2009, 17:02

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

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: Yabba on January 03, 2009, 17:07

Nice dahlias :D

Marston lilacs or Mary's jommander from the look of them

¥

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: Etherelda on January 03, 2009, 17:37

thanks Yabba,  for naming the dahlias, I'm on the lookout for non veg for the lottie.

Adds a bit more colour!

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: fekq on January 03, 2009, 18:18

gorgeous. i gave in (slightly) and we now have a "forgetmenot blue" shed - he was at work, he said that blue was better than cream.....

do like the stripy one tho. maybe next paint time....

has been suggested down the pub that i could rent it out as a beach hut. bit of a yomp to brighton tho....

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: tam on January 03, 2009, 18:51

Cuprinol do a good range: http://www.cuprinol.co.uk/products/garden_shades_overview.html

:D

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: compostqueen on January 04, 2009, 00:01

the forget me not is lovely. My sister painted her picket fence that colour and set if off with orange flowers  :D

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: Yabba on January 04, 2009, 07:01

Quote from: "Etherelda"

thanks Yabba,  for naming the dahlias, I'm on the lookout for non veg for the lottie.

Adds a bit more colour!

I'm in the process of digging up our dahlia tubers, I can send you some marstons && marys ( and several other show varieties ), if you're interested ?

¥

Title: Shed painting: what colour is your shed?
Post by: tallulah on January 04, 2009, 17:58

We have 2 garden sheds, one painted a rich sappy olive green, and the other lime green - ever so bright!  And one of the fences - @ 6' or so - is painted deep magenta/crimson.  Against that I grow my 'hot flowers' - lots of sumptious rich oranges and reds and pinks, and lots of succulents, to kid myself I live in Africa, or Mexico!  I do like a bit of colour folks!

Title: inspiration
Post by: BestBreast on January 23, 2009, 19:47

Thanks for the reply. I will definantly invest in a nicer paint for my shed and fence panels.
Currently everything is forest green. I was thinking today about what colour to paint my chicken coop (job for the summer), was thinking cream and lemon.