Everything you need to know about home and garden storage solutions: Garden Sheds, Workshops, Utility Sheds, Aviaries, Pool filter covers and more
Television programs show how we can DIY and improve space saving methods in our homes. A storage shed that can fit in the garage or under eaves is a quick solution to minimise clutter. This can create a tidy residence and make day to day tasks a breeze. Otherwise the living space can become cluttered and hard to do things in.
I learnt community art and my lounge looked like a disaster area, so I had a garden shed installed in my backyard. It matches my garden in colour and has windows. I moved in all my art equipment and easel – it is now my haven. Whenever I feel like some personal space, as well as feeling the high of creating something which expresses my innermost thoughts, I go into my art studio. What joy?
Mind you, there’s enough room for frames and other art essentials. There’s also an old smallish table under the window which I rest completed art, because it can take up to 3 days to dry.
Some of my friends from the community art classes are jealous because they haven’t got their studios…yet.
Have an aviary in your backyard and feel the benefits of providing safe accommodation for your birds. Parrots are fun, so try housing a couple and enjoy having them as pets. You get an aviary which you can easily assemble and which can make your yard attractive, making your environment alive with the chattering of these friendly creatures.
Nana look at that coloured bird on those telephone wires”. Julie admired the parrot and replied “that’s a Galah, darling”. But Julie wondered how safe that beautiful bird was. She remembered that when she was little her grandparents had an aviary with parrots and she loved visiting. So Julie went an bought an aviary for her two new parrots in her backyard, know that her grandchildren would look forward to the visits. Her cat wished they were free so he could chase them but fortunately they are safe.
When I was a little girl the best you could get for storage in the backyard was tin sheds or wooden sheds that people had to build themselves. Nowadays it’s great that we buy a kit that is a simple DIY or for an affordable cost is assembled for us. Garden sheds that are used for storage or all purpose weatherproof sheds which are great for studios – music, craft and art productions.
I am sitting in my lounge room with the heater on full, rugged up in a thick lined cardigan and gloves without finger tips (Michael Jackson eat your heart out). It occurred to me that there are plants which would not survive out in this freezing cold. Mind you it’s not snowing, that could be worse, in which case there are snow greenhouses just for that purpose. I’ll write about snow greenhouses another time. This time I am thinking about fresh herbs which are becoming more and more popular when cooking.
Thomas Dolby‘s most recognised hit was 1982′s “She Blinded Me with Science”. He has built his music studio in his garden shed.
Shed Life
I work and make music in a garden shed. It’s small but cosy, with windows on all sides, and a gorgeous view of the Pacific Ocean. Didn’t Nick Drake write a song called ‘A Man And His Shed’? He must have been thinking of me. My daily commute is 15 feet. Some days I’m still in my pyjamas at 2pm…I love my shed!
Thomas has gone on to create some great music and has a new EP out 17 July 2007. Hopefully he’s got some “shed music” on it. He tells a great story about owning a “real” recording studio in West London and the headaches that went with it
