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How to Make Your Wooden Garden Shed Blend in with the Landscape

So you’ve found the perfect shed plans and built a storage shed to store your lawn mower, rakes, shovels, and other garden tools. There’s only one problem, it sticks out like a sore thumb and detracts from the landscape. Rather than letting your garden shed draw attention to itself, there are several things you can do to help it blend into the landscape.

First of all, you can paint your shed. If you have a wooden garden shed, it will be easy to paint. Take a look at the lawn and garden around the shed. Look at the flowers and foliage. What are the predominant colors? If you have a lot of blue and purple flowers in your garden, you can choose a nice shade of blue to paint the shed. A nice green color can help the shed blend in with the grass and leaves of any plant or shrub in your garden. You probably don’t want to choose a color that exactly matches the surrounding lawn or garden, but rather something that complements the garden and helps make the shed look like part of the garden. If you like, you can choose a contrasting color for the border to help it stand out. Take a couple of pieces of wood and paint them with the colors you are considering for the shed. Place them next to the shed and watch the colors work in your garden. If they work, use those colors for your shed. If not, experiment and find a color or color scheme that works.

The outside walls of the shed are probably pretty bare. If you go to your local home and garden store, take a look at the gardening art they have. Many times you will find wall art, intended to hang on the outside wall of the house or on a fence. If you have a theme in your garden, chances are you will find something to hang on your shed walls that will complement the other art in your garden. You can also explore local yard sales, flea markets, and antique stores for vintage gardening tools and equipment. Hanging on the walls, or simply leaning against an outside wall of your garden shed, these pieces can add their own unique charm. Anything hanging on the walls or leaning against the outside of the shed can go a long way in breaking down the lines of a bare wall and adding interest to your garden.

If you don’t have flowers or shrubs around your wooden garden shed, you should consider planting them. You can plant flowers and shrubs around the edges of the shed to add a pop of color. A trellis attached to the side of the shed would be ideal for growing ivy, honeysuckle, clematis, or other climbing plants. If your garden shed has exposed eaves, you can hang flower pots or baskets, or you can place flower pots on the outside of the shed. Just take note of how much sun each side of the shed receives each day and plant accordingly. Even a few containers of colorful plants next to your garden shed can make a big difference.

Okay, so you’ve painted the shed, planted flowers and shrubs in appropriate places, and put up some pieces of garden art on the walls. Now it seems that the shed is part of the garden and not just a storage shed. Now the shed is part of the decoration. Just use your imagination and your shed can become a garden focal point, rather than an eyesore.

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