Charming outhouses. But please note - the one with the open door has a load of old plastic pots in there and a shredder that hasn't been used for over 10 years, the other white door has an outdoor loo with a basin that leaks and assorted detritus and the main one - I'll take an interior shot at some point - but in the meantime please note the rotten windows with the glass held in with gaffa tape. Also note missing gutter on right hand side. I have the old metal one propped up just to the right, out of shot of the picture - but it doesn't fit. We have been here nearly 20 years and never realised (in the sense of never fulfilled) the promise the outhouses held when we first bought the place.
Charming outhouses. But please note - the one with the open door has a load of old plastic pots in there and a shredder that hasn't been used for over 10 years, the other white door has an outdoor loo with a basin that leaks and assorted detritus and the main one - I'll take an interior shot at some point - but in the meantime please note the rotten windows with the glass held in with gaffa tape. Also note missing gutter on right hand side. I have the old metal one propped up just to the right, out of shot of the picture - but it doesn't fit. We have been here nearly 20 years and never realised (in the sense of never fulfilled) the promise the outhouses held when we first bought the place.
This could literally be ours, except that ours is a detached garage and it's been 25 years, plus the entire thing is covered with wisteria, which is undeniably gorgeous for one month of the year. The pic I'm posting makes it look great, but the point is that underneath it looks like yours, with rotten window frames, cracked windows and an old pigeon loft which is riddled with rot from decades of guano which predates us. We don't talk about the roof. We can't get near it to renovate it without cutting down the beautiful thing which hides it all. So we don't. And we don't use it as a garage, either, because we have filled it with pots and tools. And other stuff... I admit that the inside is tidy, but that's just compensating for the fact that the outside is about to disappear under a mound of wisteria, and on the back side of it, which is on the neighbour's drive, it's already subsumed under a complete wall of ivy.
Here's one of it looking rather less charming, with a bonus view of the conservatory roof... The white patches on the path are washing powder, which we discovered by accident kills moss really rather effectively, so there's a plus side to being slatternly and accident-prone.
Wow, what sort of washing powder? Would love to get rid of some of the moss on our paths. Didyw, great cracks in the brickwork!
We use Tesco biological stuff, sometimes the stuff for colours, sometimes not. It turns the moss brown. I assume it's either the enzymes in it, or maybe bleach, if there's that in it. I don't actually know, but we sprinkle it on our paths every year now. I assume it's no more harmful than other moss killers, since it's designed to go into the sewers as waste water. It leaves you with white patches on the paths until rain washes it away, but we don't really care. After all, this is the gallery of shame thread, so it doesn't do to be too picky.
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