How to Decorate Garden Sheds With Antiques

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hang each piece up using the hammer and nails. You might have to use two nails to secure the heavy pieces.

Assemble and arrange the pieces that will be on the ground according to your planning sketch.

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.