we've just put this shed up and now i dont like it...

puddy

http://www.gardenbuildingsdirect.co.uk/Metal-Sheds/Billyoh-Sutton-Pent-Roof-Steel-Shed

i wanted something small and unobtrusive to put in the front garden to store our bikes in.

partner persuaded me that a metal shed was better than wood and so we ordered that one. we spent all last weekend putting it up, blood sweat and tears (the recommended time for installation being 3 hours was so far off the mark...)

now i find that when im driving back home, it looks like we have a porta loo in the garden and i dont like it. i wish i had got a wooden one but now we've spent the money and time on this one, we're stuck with it,

what can i do to disguise it?

the back is ok, it has high shrubs behind it, its the front (its sideways on to the house, so from the living room window, i can only see the side which is the same height as the shrubs behind it)

Inactive

Hide it with a fence panel or similar, that shed would look ghastly in a front garden.

sillygoose

oh dear! sorry but I agree with you, looks like an electricity sub station or a WW2 bomb shelter to me. It would have to go.

If you keep it I would put some trellis either side of the doors something like this and whatever a garden centre recommend grows up it fast. Maybe some slow growing decent sized confers close by would be a distraction too but they are not cheap for one a few feet high.

ormus

http://www.homebase.co.uk

at least you could have bought one a lot cheaper.
metal sheds from 99 quid.

valentina

You could screen it with that bamboo screening stuff that you buy in rolls, maybe attached to posts or something. Doesn't last forever but ok for several years.
Like this
http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/bamboo-slat-screen-metre-rolls-p-2159.html?source=googlebase

Ladybird20

OOO sorry i agree with you also,,i dont like it in the picture tho so i wouldnt have bought it..you probably been better getting a wooden one, they look better on th eye..

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Paint it pink.......

puddy

i like the idea of the screening, but what about the doors, they are sliding doors, they slide inside the shed so i was thinking of sticking the screens to the outside of it to make it look like a sort of bamboo hut thing, but the doors wouldnt be covered?

Pitlanepiglet

Another vote for Bamboo screening, they sell it at Costco in rolls that are about £20 IIRC. We used it whilst we were building and it was fab.

I also wonder whether you might need planning consent for something like that in your front garden?

1984ReturnsForReal_2

ormus