Potting Shed with Faux Brick Floor

Transformation Thursday Party...

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Today I want to share my Potting Shed  

with the "faux brick" painted floor.

This was not a "shed" but an addition that was added

to the side of the house by the former owners.

It didn't even have any electricity wired up.

It was a workshop/storage room with one window.

Then I moved in and staked my claim...

and we put in another window and power!

Potting shed with painted "faux brick" floor,
Click here for more info.

I have to apologize for this picture.

The Mr. must have taken it,

I didn't even "stage" it first!

It was taken before the digital camera era.

I dug it out of the "picture box" and scanned it.

Do you have a "picture box"...
or a bunch of boxes like me?



Here are two more pictures of that yard.

Our Northern California Backyard.

Our Hot Tub Gazebo

I will post more after I dig through the
gazillions of pictures in the unsorted boxes.

I have always been a gardener.

In fact while living in Northern California
I had become a Master Gardener for my county.

I should scan that MG certificate...

and tell you I was 2nd in my class,

but I am not prone to bragging... :o)

 Our Texas Pond

 I never got a MG certificate in Texas.

 However, I did get the yard certified

as a Wildlife Habitat.

Certified Wildlife Habitat Plaque

Mourning Dove on Bench... look hard.

Praying Mantis in our Texas Yard





My newest garden is in the desert.
It has been too hot to do anything here so far.

Mountain View In The Desert

We have a small backyard with only
the builders landscaping so far.
see the little baby plants?

Small Desert Yard



But we like to think that we
have a huge backyard with
a wonderful view of the mountains.

View Of Golf Course And Mountains From Backyard

We do have some pretty clouds.

House Across From Us

Thank you Gina for hosting this party.
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I am Hopping for joy!!

I just want to thank all of you new party girls!

I have had a better than expected start to my

Bunny Hop Wednesday.

xoxo 
Bunny Jean

Faux Painted "Brick Floor"

This is a picture of the faux "painted brick"

I painted on the floor of my potting shed.

I wish I had a picture of the room

after it was completely decorated...sigh.

It was SO CUTE!

The counter top on the right was actually recessed down, to accommodate all the soil spillage... AND it even had a hole to push the dirt back down into the bin below. The surface was a laminate, so no worries about water or clean up. Those green bins were full of different soils, and garden stuff.

The floor was just grey cement or is it concrete. I never know which is correct and bit The Mr. says there is a difference. I wanted some more character to the room so I painted it to look like brick.

I just used the redwood fence stain that I had on hand.

If I had planned ahead I think I would have used cement stain. I think it comes in ready mixed colors for painting cement porches...

Actually... I stamped the pattern on using a sponge that I think was meant for cleaning the grout when laying new tile.

I broke bits off of the sponge until it was the size of a real brick.

I even pulled out little bits from the stamping surface so it would have "texture". I made sure to rotate the sponge so that each "brick" would look different. The cement spaces between each "brick" looked like the "mortar".

I will post a picture or two of the yard.

We lived in Northern California at the time.

We now live in North Central Texas...

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update: we have since moved to the Palm Desert of California.