How to Decorate Garden Sheds With Antiques
If you love to decorate with antiques, you don't have to stop at the inside of your house. The walls and area around a gardening shed are a perfect place to decorate using antiques. Many old pieces like an ancient plow, antique gardening tools or an old pie cupboard are great accessories to embellish any shed. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Sketch pad
- Pencils
- Antiques
- Outdoor plants
- Potting soil
- Gardening tools
- Gardening gloves
- Measuring tape
- Nails
- Hammer
- Masking tape
Instructions
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Determine where on your shed you want to decorate. If you want to include the front door as well as one of the side walls, this needs to be figured out ahead of time so that you buy enough accessories. Additionally, decide whether or not the display will "bleed" out to include your garden.
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Brainstorm for ideas for your shed. A decorating theme of sorts should emerge. Typically themes like country chic go best with this type of decorating motif, particularly for something outside. Country chic includes whitewashed cupboards, rusty antique plows, old canning jars, old splintered kitchen tables and old wagon wheels. Any piece with old peeling paint usually fits as well.
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Make a list of things to buy based upon your brainstorming and go shopping for the accessories. You'll find antiques at farm estate sales, antique stores, in the classified ads in the newspaper, local auctions and sometimes at pawn or second-hand stores.
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Assess what you were able to find and purchase at the end of your trip. You may not have found everything on your wish list, so make adjustments to your decorating plan accordingly.
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Sketch out on paper where each piece is going to be placed. If the garden is included in your décor, old kitchen tables that can hold gardening tools are a good choice for the garden side.
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Measure and mark the places on your shed walls where things will be hung up. Label each marked place with a piece of masking tape. The name of the piece to be hung on that spot should be written on the tape. By doing this, you'll be able to adjust any measurements that don't quite. This prevents you from hanging up all the pieces and only then figuring out that they don't fit.
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Hang each piece up using the hammer and nails. You might have to use two nails to secure the heavy pieces.
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Assemble and arrange the pieces that will be on the ground according to your planning sketch.
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Put on your gardening gloves, and use the gardening tools, to plant any plants in the antique planters or old Mason jars you might have purchased. Arrange the planters in appropriate places on an outside table, near the shed door or around a table leg.
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Tips & Warnings
Decorating with antiques can get quite spendy, so you may want to just buy a few things at a time instead of all at once. This will require a little more planning on your part, but it also allows for a bit of spontaneity. You might discover something that wasn't on your original shopping list, but fits the theme of your shed décor perfectly.
Antiques that go outside are always a good choice. If you include the garden in the decorating plan, try to find things like old gardening tools, dilapidated work boots (complete with mud) and even an old scarecrow. Place these things near the garden area.
The antiques you purchase for this project should be antiques that can withstand the outdoors.
