I appreciate this is a turd polishing exercise but wondered if anyone had improved the appearance of such a garage, without resorting to demolishing and rebuilding.
I had thought about some thin timber strips, various widths, as a sort of almost complete cladding but the cost would be too much.
Whitewashing might do as we have a whitewashed house but it'd be a great big white lump in the garden.
Any thoughts?
Plant stuff round it? Few fast growing climbers, budliea (sp?) etc - give it a year or two to blend in more.
Trellis and grow some stuff up it
mirrors and wood?
might not work [i]quite[/i] this well, but it migh be a fun way of breaking it up
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Or you could paint it with the kind of counter-shading they use to take the visual impact off big industrial units.
Maybe green-light blue to blend in a bit with the garden? Or some brown if there's a fence. If you've got kids, you could get them to help you paint rabbits and flowers round the bottom.
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Confession: I quite like pebbledashing.
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I'm liking the mirrors and wood, but our outlook isn't quite as grand.
Stick a trellis to the wall and plant some fast growing climbers. You could look at cladding with wood or composite but it wont be cheap and you will probably still want some plants to break it up a bit.
smash it to bits!
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Elastomeric paint in any colour of your choice.
I've always thought sandstone masonry paint works well in most areas. I think we got some from Homebase that did a good job of covering ours a few years back. It was originally white itself and didn't take very long to look manky with green mould. It's a lot easier on the eye now. You could combine it with the plants/trellis suggestios above too.
Clad it and pretend its a big shed.
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You could turn it into a hide and observe McMoonters in their natural habitat
Clad it with pallet wood. Free innit.
Clad it with pallet wood.
And tyres 🙂
Just in time for marching season.