Our mate @unclewilco runs a wonderful competition each year called the Shed of the Year on www.readersheds.co.uk. Anyone who has a shed for whatever purpose they deem fit can enter the extravaganza by posting their shed images and info on the www.readersheds.co.uk website and hopefully contribute to all the fun.
As a day job I photograph the products that www.gardenbuildingsdirect.co.uk and our sister websites produce and sell. A lot of the time the garden buildings fall in to obvious categories such as wooden sheds, summerhouses, log cabins and playhouses, among others. All terms that pretty much give rise to an all too common idea of what the innards of said garden buildings would look like when furnished, furbished and occupied.
However, @unclewilco and the readersheds massive brings your eyes to full focus, even if some of the images are a bit blurry, to the fact that not all sheds and summerhouse are for storing lawn mowers and escaping the, (uh-hum) summer sun in. There is a myriad of different uses and forms of decorative display that adorn these wonderful garden buildings and I’d just like to run some of them by you (with full permission from @unclewilco of course).
The pub shed is probably the best way of escaping your wife’s need to watch Coronation Square and Eastender Street fifteen times a week. You not only get to slink off and have a swift half or two, but you also get away with it because you haven’t actually gone out and left the missus on her own. (Please note that the roles are easily reversible and it could be the wife escaping the football, if you are looking for a second stereotype to complain about).
There are those fanatics that love all things Doctor Who and Tardis sheds seem to be on the increase in numbers. Maybe they are all the same Tardis, but just at different times in the universes timeline, all converging here and now in so many back gardens. They do highlight the fact that the garden shed isn’t just a sterile building, although cleanliness is mainly pushed out the window in most sheds, but sometimes a fun and entertaining feature of the home.
A home cinema is something I’ve always wanted and a shed that fulfils this dream is just another one of the amazing things that some sheddies have been able to create with their out buildings. What’s next, ice cream parlours, health spas, whatever it is I come back to the question that has been bugging ever since I started writing this entry (which wasn’t long ago) where do they keep all their lawn mowers, strimmers, deck chairs and wheel barrows?
Go and check out www.readersheds.co.uk and see what the nuttiest sheddies have done with their garden buildings and be inspired yourself to make much more of your garden shed than you may have thought of before.
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All images courtesy of @unclewilco and www.readersheds.co.uk
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