Favourite past makeovers....garden shed...

Today we are in the midst of a kitchen makeover-we've been spraying our washing machine and dishwasher chrome. They still need a few more coats, so I thought I'd look back at one of the first makeovers we did in our present house.

The bottom photo is the before shot from the Estate Agents brochure (can you spot our Belfast sink with the herbs in it?!) -as handy as the little brown shed was storagewise-I didn't quite take to it because of its colour scheme! The shed is the first thing I see when I look out of our kitchen window, so it was important to make the view as pleasant as possible!
We had some lilac masonry paint leftover from our old house, so we re-painted the shed and then added the lattice panels, which were really cheap from B&Q. We removed all the shutters and window boxes, and then added the roof detail. I really like the mock roof tiles, which were made out of a roll of roofing felt (also really cheap from B&Q!)! All we did was trace around the bottom of a paint tin repeatedly to get the tile shapes, then we just cut them out with scissors and nailed them down. The OH made the wooden finials out of some old wood and attached them-one got struck by lightening once and was found on the grass the next day!!

The whole makeover took one (long) sunny day in Summer, and I think it turned out quite well, although I do wonder what our neighbours make of it....