Growing a Potting Shed from the ground up with seeds of inspiration from Country Gardens magazine. A blend of new and salvage and materials, galvanized sheet metal counters and windows dressed with landscaping burlap. Lots of DIY inspiration and projects!
My Potting Shed is 10 x 16~ not nearly big enough :)
The exterior inspired by my early spring issue 2012 of CountryGardens Magazine.
A project that I was thrilled to have finally completed in 2012 after years of planning and procrastinating!
Click on the links to the posts below
the photos to see how she’s grown~
A Place to Pot
Nesting & Window Dressing
New Life for a Chest Gone to Pot
Skirting the Issue
Potting Shed Update- Fall Dressing
Bits of Fall & Blooms
Window of Opportunity~ Harvesting & Gathering
Potting Shed Christmas
A Ladder from Santa
It’s a Wrap!
M is for Merry Christmas!
Bird Watching~ Chickadees
{Inspired} Seed Catalog Wreath
Reliable Seeds for a {Staffordshire} Bouquet
Winter Window Dressing
Gardening Under Glass
Repurposed Chandelier Bird Feeder
Ready for the Bloom
Up & Down the Bunny Trail
…And A Little Flower
Chalking it Up~ April Showers
Seed Box Planter
Adding a Little Punch~ Flowering & Fluttering Branches
Canning Season
Life is a Garden~ Chalkboard Inspiration
Patriotic Dressing
Stop and Smell the Lavender~ Chalkboard Renewal
Not Just for Chickens~Window Gardening
Hanging from the Rafters
Freshly Picked~ A Watering Can Welcome
Butterfly Migration
Gathering in the Garden with May Rain
A Little Bit of Fall
Autumn is a Second Spring
Fall Around The Potting Shed
Raking Season
Potting Shed~ Happy Harvest
Decking The Halls in The Potting Shed
Potting Shed Christmas Nesting & Feathering
Potting Shed Year in Review: Puttering, Playing & Potting
Winter Nest Feathering
Moving Day
Potting Shed: Blooming Inspiration and Spring Planting
Dreaming of an Early Spring: Spring Green Ball Jar Giveaway
Bloom Where You Are Planted
In the Potting Shed: Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life
You Are As Welcome As The Flowers Of Spring
A Photo Shoot for The Potting Shed
Tabletop Gardening with Pfaltzgraff Naturewood
Bluebottle Flowers for Blue Bottles
Spring Planting & Potting Inspiration
A Garden Metaphor for Life & Chalkboard Inspiration
Please Pass the Peonies
May All Your Weeds *Bee* Wildflowers and Giveaway!
Home is Where the Potting Shed Is
A Flower Fix, Black-eyed Susans and Winners!
A Vintage Garden Picnic in the Potting Shed
Red, White and Blue Transferware
Potting Shed: Pumpkins, Gourds, and Mums!
A Bicycle Built For Pumpkins
A Potting Shed Happy Haunting
Potting Shed: A Haunted Tableau
Birds of a Feather Advent Calendar
Potting Shed: Christmas Sprucing of the Porch
A Tree for the Birds & DIY Bird Seed Treats
Growing a Poinsettia from a Cocktail Napkin and a Poinsettia Cocktail!
Putting Out The Wise Men and Shopping Wisely
A Picnic With The Birds
Potting Shed 2014 Year in Review
Potting Shed Winter Fun: Grapevine Wreath Snowman
Dining with Snowmen
Feeding Our Feathered Friends
Weighing in on Ball Jar Love: Purple Heritage Jar Giveaway
Heritage Collection Ball Jars and Flower Therapy
Home is Where the Shed Is in Flea Market Gardens Magazine
An Irish Blessing and St. Patrick’s Day Table
Gardening with a Superior Flower Seeds Box
Spring on a Ladder!
Earth Laughs in Flowers and Flowers in a Seed Box
How to Build a Blooming Easter Basket
In the Potting Shed with Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail
Happy Spring Wreath With Blooming Wellies
Welcome Snowball Effect
Stop and Smell the Peonies!
A Ladder to Plant for the Potting Shed
Make Hay While the Sun Shines and a Blooming Monogram
Flowers Feed the Soul and Ball Jar Bouquets
The Novel Bakers Present: The Vintage Tea Party Book!
Window Dressing for the Potting Shed
A Patriotic Salute in the Potting Shed
Summer Blooms Around the Potting Shed
The Bees Knees: Summertime Sipping
Gardening on Wheels: Bicycle Planter
Purple Passion Flower and Tippling Bees
Dressing up the Potting Shed with Vintage Garden Tools
Watering Can Love
In the Potting Shed: Fleur Du Soleil
The Potting Shed Garden Shop {Sign}
Post to Summer’s End
Chalking it Up: Autumn, The Year’s Last, Loveliest Smile!
Fall on a Ladder
Fall in a Ferry’s Seeds Box
Dining with Snowmen
Nest Feathering: Christmas Around the Potting Shed
Christmas Joy Around the Potting Shed
Around the Potting Shed: 2015 Year in Review
In the Potting Shed: Winter Nesting and Giveaway
Winter Window Boxes for the Potting Shed
Love Around The Potting Shed
Perfectly Imperfect: Transferware and Flowers
Growing a Vintage Seed Box
Chalking It Up To Welcome Spring
Hopping Down the Bunny Trail and Easter Egg Hunt Table
Planting Spring Bulbs in a Drawer!
Wisteria and Blooming Dishes
Jardin de Legumes and Bunnies
Shed-Keeping and Spring Cleaning
Blooming Tole Trays and Flowers!
Singing the Wildflower Blues
Gardener’s Recipe for Planting Summer Annuals
Pretty in Pink Blooms and Peonies
Tabletop Nesting with Blooms and Dishes
Planting, Puttering and Potting Shed Sign
Peonies Last Hurrah
Oh My Stars and Stripes!
Chalking it Up to Celebrate the Red, White and Bloom!
Red, White and Bloom: Potting Shed Door Basket
Room to Grow and Gravel Paths
New Perennial Bed
Celebrating the Red, White and Blue!
New Red Bench & Blooms Around the Potting Shed
A Mad Tea Party in the Potting Shed
The Faded Beauty of Hydrangeas
A Mad Tea Party Continues
After the Rain: Summer Blooms Around the Potting Shed
Photo Shoot and Feature in BH&G Halloween Tricks & Treats Magazine
Wild Vines and Volunteers
Bits of Fall Around the Potting Shed
Welcome Back October
Brown Transferware, Hydrangeas and Pumpkins
Fall Window Boxes and Pumpkins
Fall Harvest Around the Potting Shed
Fall Around the Potting Shed Part 2 and A Nod to Halloween
Watering Can Welcome and Welcome November
Chalkboard Runner and Plaid Tidings
Sprucing Up the Window Boxes for Christmas
Around the Potting Shed: 2016 Year in Review
Woodland Table with Birds and Winter Nesting
Potting Shed Featured in She Sheds: A Room of Your Own
A Heartfelt Arrangement for Valentine’s Day
Valentine Greetings with Transferware and Flowers
Birds, Nests, Butterflies and Teacups
A New Pair of Chippy Shutters and Camellias
Chalking it Up: Happy Spring Blooms
Tabletop Gardening with Bunnies and Spring Bulbs
Growing a Garden Hose Wreath with Blooming Wellies
The Chain Gang
Happy Earth Day
Le Jardin Botanique and Bunnies
Garden Rules
Window Dressing: DIY Board and Batten Shutters
Tabletop Nesting
Coming Up Roses and Blooming Tole
Tabletop Nesting with Majolica and Hydrangeas
Wheelbarrow Makeover
Morning Glory Vine Bottle Tree
Garden Blooms
Bees Knees Table
Blooming Door Knob Hose Guards
Woodland Table and Vignette
Blue, White and Limelights Table and Vignette
The Hum of Bees is the Voice of the Garden
Easy 5-Minute Potting Shed Door Update for Summer
More in the Garden Grows Than What the Gardener Sows
Ladder Trellis and Favorite Summer Vine
Botanic Blooms and Butterflies
Celebrating Everyday Life Magazine and Potting Shed Feature
Chalking it Up to Fall and Garden Blooms
Hello Autumn Wreath and a Wheelbarrow of Pumpkins
Fall Nesting: Brown Transferware and Hydrangeas
Christmas Greenery Around the Potting Shed
Filling Window Boxes with Christmas Greenery
Potting Shed 2017 Year in Review
Chalking It Up: The Love of Gardening + Giveaway
Ball Jar Bouquets and Transferware in the Potting Shed
Bunny Garden Table in the Potting Shed
Tabletop Gardening with Seeds and Veggies
Celebrate the Red, White and Blue: Stars and Stripes Ball Jars + Giveaway
Peonies, Roses & Blue and White
May Flowers Around the Potting Shed
Celebrating the Red, White and Bloom!
Blooming Drawers on a Ladder
Dining with Bees + National Pollinator Week
Bees, Butterflies and Blooms Around the Potting Shed
Pitcher Perfect Garden Blooms
Public Service Annoucement: Plant a Limelight Hydrangea…or Five
Fresh Flower Market and Tabletop Gardening
Chalking It Up: Bees and Flowers Around the Potting Shed
Slinky Garden Hack and Trellis for a Favorite Flowering Vine
Late Summer Garden Update: Winged Beauties, Blooms & Bunnies Around the Potting Shed
Anyone Can Be A Gardener: Garden Hose Wreath for the Potting Shed
Love it!!!Thanks for sharing…
Have a nice day
Love from the netherlands,
Ingrid
Love your blog! Love your look… so many fantastic ideas!
Can I move in?? Love the Country Gardens potting sheds and yours is fantastic!! I can see your retail talents on display… aren’t you just happy to don’t have to take inventory of all your wonderful collections?
I love your blog! It inspires me, and makes me happy!! Thank you so much!!
I LOVE this Mary!!! Really LOVE it!! In fact, I believe I could live quite comfortably in the potting shed!! Your talents are awesome! xo
Jeanne (Chloe and LadyBug too)
I have N E V E R seen such a perfect potting shed!! Well done!!
Hi Mary! You wouldn’t believe it but I was also inspired by the same exact potting shed that was on the cover of Country Gardens magazine from last spring. Both my brothers are home builders and they are finally going to build me a beautiful garden shed within the next few months. I collected an old door from Columbia Falls, Montana along with a variety of old windows and pillars from my hometown, Gig Harbor, Washington that will be included in the 10 X 12 design. I can’t wait! Thanks for the inspiration and beautiful photographs.
I am so envious of you! You are so lucky to have that potting shed to store extras and to work in. Fall is a great time to inspire projects🍂
Absolutely beautiful and creative, designs…they really make me smile. I am so inspired. Thank you for creating and sharing…I love your style
Wow, your potting shed really can’t be called a “shed”. It’s gorgeous. I just discovered your blog today via a link from pinterest. I need to read your old posts. I too am a lake person, I know I’ll enjoy your blog. I live in Raleigh, but our lake property is in SC. I think I need to check into Lake Norman for retirement!
Wow! I am very very jealous! Emma xx
Love the repurposed chandelier! 👯
I wish you had a pin button for pinterest!
There is a pin button, just hover on the left corner of the photo and it will pop up :)
I absolutely love your potting shed and everything about it! I especially love the door. Would you mind sharing the color with me? Love your blog. Thank you,
Thank you! All the paint info is here: http://homeiswheretheboatis.net/2012/09/03/a-place-to-pot/
I want to come live in the Potting Shed!
Just saw this, how gorgeous, fun, and absolutely charming!
So enjoyed looking @ your creative ideas during all the seasons & holidays. Wow! Just moved to the country & can’t wait for my husband & I to build” my potting shed”. I hope he won’t procrastinate!!!LOL.
Oh my,,,, you have the cutest shed in all of blog land. I love how you change up and stage it just picture perfect. What a great sense of style you have. Love your site.
A cup of tea and scrolling your blog – Ahhhh, so wonderful, so peaceful, so inspiring, so beautiful. Thank YOU.
I recently came across your site from Pinterest. We used the same design to make our garden shed to build a 10×10 shed for our backyard. I bought an old door and rectangle window at an antique shop in Blissfield, MI. My dad had lots of white barn board, windows, and tin roofing. We recreated another garden shed that is now our chicken coop, 8×8. I used old boards from an old firetruck for the deck/porch that my dad had saved and tore off old red barn board from my grandpa’s barn. Put a old door from my grandpa’s barn on the side as a wall and my husband designed unique windows for ventilation that open like shutters. He also designed a one of a kind front door for the coop.
Love your site and will be following your Pinterest board. Such cute ideas!!!!
love your shed and all the ideas
Hello Mary good morning from a wet and damp uk ( well it is summer) found you via Pinterest such an abundance of goodies to be found in the u.s too many I fear for my suitcase!!
Look forward to following you enjoy the heat Lyn
My husband is building a potting shed for me using materials from my grandparents’ farmhouse that was built in 1792. I love the “Potting Shed” sign you have on the front door. Where did you purchase it? I absolutely love ALL your ideas … you’ve definitely inspired me to “grow” and “bloom”!
How fun Sherri! The sign came from Gibson Mill from a dealercalled “Ful O’Bright Ideas”. The last time I was there they didn’t have it but they probably would again in the spring when it’s gardening season or maybe the Mill can you put in touch with him :)
eclectic and perfect!
I was just wondering- do you live on a boat full time or do you have a house? Would love to see your home interiors if you have one!
Hi Nancy, We don’t live on a boat, we live in a house on a lake. “Home” is where we dock our boat :)
I’d be happy to LIVE in that little shed! Just beautiful, cozy, romantic and sweet!
Love them all! Extremely inspirational!
In these housebound times, your potting shed is a visual treat. Thank you!
Hi, Love your shed as inspiration for my little shed my husband and I are building. I was wondering what color green paint is on your two little shelves on the front wall above and below the little window by the front door.
Absolutely wonderful!
hello! I really love your little potting shed. Would you be willing to share the plan so we can make one?