SEE UPDATED PICS AT BOTTOM OF POST...
I'm buying a shed today. Not a big one. Just 8' x 10'. It's cute...two little windows, peaked roof, 2 additional vents. It's not for my staging inventory, however. It's supposed to be for the kid's outside toys and seasonal stuff that occasionally clogs easy access to our garage.
So of course, I'll have to do a little design work on it...paint the shutters to match the house, add a flower box, perhaps a little garden in front of it. I'll add some practical yet attractive hooks and other "holder's of stuff" inside so it can stay organized. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that it may be come a "man house" for my husband. Any ideas?
But seriously, I doubt I'll ever set foot in it once it's done...he's positioning it at the edge of the woods, and I have a feeling that spiders might move in. So here is my question...anyone have a great proactive solution for keeping spiders out of a shed in a wooded area? Yea, it's quite a phobia I have!
Also, any ideas on how to design it as a man house? I could really have some fun with this!
UPDATE: Here is our new shed, or (as my 2 year old calls it...the "Man House"). First, the outside:
And (drum roll please)....staged for a man!!! Note the understated clean lines, subtle use of color, and great view. Surley no man would struggle visualizing a purpose for THIS room!
Hi Terry...I'd take lizards over spiders any day! I didn't know you had experience in the pest world...is there anything you can't do? You amaze me!
Didn't think about the damp thing...they will set it up on blocks...we'll see how it goes!
I'm thinking cottage too...at least on the outside. This has been something my hubby has been wanting ever since we moved here...that's why I think he may secretly want a man house! Maybe I'll make it eclectic and do sweet cottage on the outside, and hang items such as his "Harley Parking Only" signs inside. Maybe paint some trout on the walls. Ever see the Red Green show on TV? Maybe I'll paint their chant "I'm a man, and I can change, if I have to." he he he. This will be fun!
Luckily we don't get hurricane's here...but did I mention that winters suck! Sorry, I'm just a little down about the impending winter! But I'm heading the the sunshine state next month for a week in a little beach house in St. Augustine. Funny thing is...it hasn't been updated in about 25 years. So I'll probably be mentally staging it the whole time we're there. Did the same thing at a beach house in Alabama...colors were all wrong! So much for relaxing! ;)
It will be hard to do for sure! You can do some caulking to help with the dampness and also to keep out dust, which attracts spiders.
Hope this helps,
Cindy
Susan,
You said on the edge of the woods sitting on blocks, you better critter proof that shed too. Skunks just looove to go under sheds and make a happy little home. I had a family living under a deck in my last house.
I personally like spiders, they are natures insecticide.
I have a suggestion for your decorating ideas, watch Man Caves. Or better yet let your hubby decorate the place. He he he!
Janine...I'll try the spider bombs...didn't know they made such a thing!
Ok everyone, the shed has been delivered, and I've staged it for it's target demographic...see updated pics in the post!!! LOL
I am zinking of making a luv nest under zee shed.
Janice and Ann...Thanks for your comments...yea, girly posters...LOL!
Jim - You're cracking me up! I hope there is no wildlife love going on under there!
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Cute, cute, cute! Love what you'ev done with the place :)
all the best,
Beth
Susan - You are just such a girlie girl - spiders!!! You had better move to the ranch here in MN and see how big we grow them in the barn. I knock them down and step on them fast. Is that illegal???
The webs are too flammable to have around my horsie darlings.
Terry, you're welcome anytime! Beer is on me!
Julianna, how cute...I bet your little brother loved it!
Beth...thanks...it's move in ready! he he he.
Kathleen...yes, I'm a girlie girl. There is a reason I don't live on a MN ranch...snow and spiders! You're tougher than I'll ever be!
Susan
Okay everyone - I knew there was a reason I love Canada. We don't have many spiders (at least that I've seen) because I'm pretty sure they all die off in the winter when we have our below zero temperatures. Now please don't burst my bubble because I hate spiders too. Janine I started to read your comment and never finished. You freaked me out. However I am not as bad as my partner and sister Margo. She can actually sense when one is in the room and we all have to hunt it down before she will come back.
Susan, love what you did with the room, but do you think white is the best color? I think a manly hunter green might be nice or even a grayish brown which would be good camouflage for the spiders and BTW is that hardwood flooring I see? Nothing but the best for our men. I was wondering what the focal point was until I spied the beer on the floor. Excellent choice. Betty
Yes Betty, I'm sure all the canadian spiders freeze to death by mid-November! ;) I agree...hunter green would have been better...but I had to work w/what we had (yea, we got that chair at Ocean State Job Lot for only $40!). The flooring is a lovely plywood, and there are 2 windows (one on the side). Oh what to do with those!!!
I haven't been in there lately...it's now full of kids today and 3 pet catapillars in a cage. My 6 yr old thinks they're still alive, but I have my doubts. She feeds them apples and leaves every day, and says they're still sleeping. Hmmmm.
Maybe I need to start a new blog - the SHE-WOMAN SPIDER HATERS CLUB.