How to make your wooden garden shed blend into 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 just one problem, it sticks out like a sore thumb and detracts from the scenery. Instead of just 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 hedge blend in with the grass and leaves of any plants or shrubs in your garden. You probably don’t want to choose a color that will exactly match the surrounding lawn or garden, but rather something that will complement the garden and help the shed look like part of the garden. If you want, you can choose a contrasting color for the border to make it stand out. Take a couple of pieces of wood and paint them in the colors you are considering for the shed. Place them next to the shed and take note of how the colors work in your garden. If they work, then use those colors for your shed. If not, experiment and find a color or color combination that works.

The outer walls of the shed are probably pretty bare. If you go to your local home and garden store, take a look at the garden art they have. Often times you will find wall art, meant to be hung on the outside wall of the house or on a fence. If you have a theme in your garden, chances are you’ll find something to hang on your shed walls that will complement the other art in your garden. You can also browse local garage sales, flea markets, and antique stores for vintage garden tools and equipment. Hung on walls, or simply propped up against an outside wall of your garden shed, these pieces can add their own unique charm. Anything hung on the walls or leaning against the outside of the shed can go a long way to break up the lines of a bare wall and add 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 planters or flower baskets, or you can place planters on the outside of the shed. Just take note of how much sun each side of the shed gets each day and plant accordingly. Even a few containers of colorful plants next to the garden shed can make a world of difference.

Okay, so you’ve painted the shed, planted flowers and shrubs in the right places, and put up some pieces of garden art on the walls. Now it looks like 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 focal point of the garden, rather than an eyesore.