KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

GreyQueen

grunnie wrote: »

My husband was going to paint the shed and got loose in bee and queueee he chose autumn gold. Good thing for him i found him before be paid for it.The painting will be on hold till i find a colour i like!

That was a narrow escape!


I've seen sheds painted in soft greenish shades, often called something like willow green. Very becoming. That's what I shall be buying next year.

greent

We've just painted our new-to-us shed in C*prin0l's purple berry - and spray painted the hinges a very dark regal purple Looks cracking!

Slinky

Green bins were emptied on Thursday. Two of the three are full again already. We're clearing an area at the bottom of the garden of some old shrubs that are half dead and surrounded by nettles and bindweed. A 4ft sycamore has also gone. We've decided that we are going to get some espalier fruit trees to grow alongside the pub wall and need to remove some more of the overgrown bushes running alongside the boundary fence, where we intend to plant raspberries and blueberries. We have blackberries growing over the fence from the council owned land next to us. There is a deep shrub border on the council side, maybe 30 feet, which is planted out with various shrubs. We realised that there are some self seeded sycamores and walnut trees within reach of the fence........ The tops of these are now in our green bins..... Whilst walnuts sound lovely, since having one self setter in our front garden pointed out to us by our neighbour, we've found 3 others in our back garden we need to get out. I know there's a walnut tree in the neighbouring street as I saw a planning notice to have it reduced. There's some hawthorns to come out as well. If left to itself, we'd have a forest in our garden before long.

Garage is looking tidier now. Managed to get rid of the removals boxes to somebody else who is moving. Painted some more of the internal wall and OH has assembled the rest of his new racking and is cracking on with organising it. Once that's sorted, we should be able to move everything away from the other wall and give that a second coat of paint.


Second cat flap installed so we no longer have to worry whether she goes out of the front or back as there's a route back in from both sides. Cat is now enjoying charging in through one flap, across the room, and out through the other.



Watched a film on a DVD last night, no idea where it came from, not a keeper so something else for the charity shop.

GreyQueen

I regularly dig oak saplings out of my allotment and occasionally walnuts which haven't fully spouted. They're planted by jays or squirrels in my case, as there are no trees other than a mostly-dead elderberry anywhere near my plot.


My Dad is nurturing a cutting of a flowering currant over at theirs which I will plant next year as bee and butterly fodder -- a lot less invasive than a buddleia.

greenbee

Can you post me all your saplings please GQ? I need to fill the gaps in my hedge with teeny tiny tree seedlings that are small enough to plant between the roots of what's already there!

silvasava

Set of 3 stainless steel saucepans, a SS teapot, SS gravyboat and dish, two pottery utensil jars all gone to the CS. Just need to photograph my gas hob to see if anyone wants that.
Two large glass worktop savers still here.....thinking about them first

Icey77

greent wrote: »

We've just painted our new-to-us shed in C*prin0l's purple berry - and spray painted the hinges a very dark regal purple Looks cracking!

Do you need to do any special prep work on the shed or do you just paint away?
We have a wood (shed like) kids playhouse that is a bit weathered and I like the idea of painting it
Thanks x

GreyQueen

Just forage for some acorns and shove them in little holes in the ground, easy-peasy.


The empty and dried out wood treatment container is binned, although I did pull off the metal handle to go separately to metal recycling. Have also donated the scales and weights and a book. More books are in process of being read and then passed on, space is tight here and my annual book habit runs in the 120-170 reads a year habit.


Have several very thick fleeces awaiting donation but will hold fire until the colder weather appears, so they can go straight out for sale and not have to be stored.


Keep up the good work, lovely peeps. GQ xx

greent

Icey77 wrote: »

Do you need to do any special prep work on the shed or do you just paint away?
We have a wood (shed like) kids playhouse that is a bit weathered and I like the idea of painting it
Thanks x

I just rubbed the panels over with a wire brush and then soft brushed it (with a brush from a dustpan-and-brush set) everywhere to remove resulting dust and cobwebs/ spiders/ other bugs! Wire brush removed some of the 'grey dirt' and also 'keyed' the surface for better adhesion, I guess. Didn't take long Could use coarse sandpaper or even wire scourers instead of the brush (I've used both on garden furniture before now)

Slinky

If it's never been painted, you probably won't even need to rub it down, just brush the cobwebs off. If it has been painted, the wire brush to get the loose bits off is easiest. Shed painting is a surprisingly quick job. Just stick down some old dust sheets on the ground around the sides to catch the splashes.