Garden shed inside transformation

Here is our little garden shed, that used to be the laundry, and still has a part-brick floor for the copper. It also has hot and cold running water and is weather tight ... but there's not a lot else to say about it. Small and shed-like.

It was also very filthy, had a lot of gaps where critters could come in, an uneven floor, dodgy sheeting on the walls (probably asbestos tbh) and was generally held together with paint and optimism.

Some of the uprights are timber, some appear to be actual tree trunks, and some were just split in half where a big branch must have landed on it at some point. We decided to have a little project because it is just too hot to garden, and did an incredibly bodgy job trying to fix it up. We used quick dry cement in inappropriate places.

Where the cement dried too quickly we used cornice cement to fill in the most obvious of cracks, in ways cornice cement was never intended to be used.

After a thorough scrubbing I discovered the absolute joys of expanding foam. That stuff is amazing, you just shoot the little nozzle in and whoosh! No more rat-sized gap between the roof and the wall. Looks like shit but an astonishing amount of fun for $13. 

Then we painted the ceiling a mix of all of the ceiling white / primer / antique white  that we had in the shed (quite a lot as it turned out). The walls were a mix of more leftover white and two of the blue sample pots that we bought for the hallway. It turned quite a violently bright blue. It's hard to tell in the photos but it is much much brighter than the previous colour.

The floor was a full tin of "terracotta" something that we found in the shed -  that you use on driveways, or concrete planters, to make it look like terracotta? We thought it sounded promising, so did two coats, and it went a violently bright orange that does not work with the walls AT ALL. Each coat took about two days to dry and even then it looked a bit damp but we were over it by then so did a coat of concrete sealant (which we actually had to go to the hardware store and buy, shame).

Then we washed the furniture, moved it back in, and my husband spent a day putting up hooks and a pegboard and arranging it all so beautifully! It looks amazing. The whole thing took two weeks and was a bit of a pain but we are very pleased with ourselves and our project ... as long as you don't look at any part of it too closely.