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A shed like this is tricky to make look right, it is wider than it is deep by quite an amount, so to keep the proportions right we added a larger than standard door, with a simple window, which we replicated on the short side. We also lowered the eaves. It took a lot of thinking about, but the result is brilliant. And the customer agrees!
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This beautiful garden shed found a new home near Leamington Spa. It fits very nicely into a town garden which was full of colour. The cedar roof with mellow with time leaving the shed sat unobtrusively in the corner.
.....you may not notice this little potting shed. Designed to blend in, which it certainly sill as the timber weathers and the wriggly tin roof goes dull, understated and wonderful.
This is a striking colour combination we have used before, and it always looks right.
We use paint from the wonderful Thorndown, www.thorndown.co.uk , and this is their 'Yew Green' to the body (a very dark green in a lot of lights) coupled with 'Dulcote Stone' to the windows. As always , the high level gable window adds a useful drop of light. This beautiful little shed is one of my favourite designs, simple yet interesting to look at, with plenty of light inside. It's not often we paint weatherboard, but in black it certainly looks the part, and of course is quite common in Surrey, where this lovely shed now lives.
Once the planting is finished, this will be a lovely corner of the garden. We were very honoured to have been asked to build and supply this lovely Corten clad shed to an RHS Chelsea participant.
We modified one of our previous designs to suit their particular needs, and the result is stunning. To finish the job, we made a matching rusty gutter from scratch, at a reasonable cost (Corten gutter cost is eye watering!). We wish them every success at the show. The beauty of buying from us is you can have exactly what you need, even if we've never built one before.
Here you see a garden shed with the synthetic slate roof and a log store to the side. This pretty shed sits at the end of a kitchen garden, I couldn't help think of Peter Rabbit, such a traditional English setting.
The roof is corten, and has probably already gone completely rusty, and paired with the subtle colour it'll definitely age well. I thought it was worth adding a photo of the door open, it just goes to show that the beauty of our garden buildings is not just skin deep, you can clearly see that the door is built to last, just like the rest of the shed. This beautiful, multipurpose shed, has found a new home in Chichester, it will be an artist's studio, tool shed and covered area under which to sit and enjoy morning coffee in the sun (or rain!).
It blends into it's surrounds perfectly, lovely. |
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