How-to-Pimp your shed
Our local bike shop in the 1950s had a huge wall poster of a young man on a bicycle being pursued by an African lion across the veld
The urge to decorate is universal, whether it be tattoos, floral designs on early Stanley rebate planes, or flames on hot rod hoods, and sheds are no exception.
Big or small, simple or ultra flash, sheds have one consistent feature — they all have decorations. These can be nostalgic, humorous, or more or less misogynistic (and often all three).
The mamo-centric female portraits that, in the past, were so common in garages and workshops are now rarely seen, perhaps because businesses that used to distribute complimentary ‘girlie’ calendars can’t now risk the potential bad publicity. Or shed
