Bike shelter upcycled from an outside toilet!
I’ve spent the last few days building myself a little bike shelter, made mostly out of parts that used to be an outside toilet in the backyard of my Victorian-era terraced house! Ta-da:
It also functions as a rainwater collection surface to fill my water butts, ready to water plants, and as a platform to put plants on, meaning I can fit more plants in my tiny garden, and they are lifted up into a sunnier height — Which being enclosed on all sides by either tall fences, or even taller buildings, is something they rather need, as most of my garden only gets a few short hours of direct sunlight even in summer!
I reused mostly materials reclaimed from what was the outside toilet — Which I have never used because, well, I have a much nicer inside toilet that isn’t full of spiders! I knocked that down last summer, to make my little backyard a little more spacious. Here’s what the toilet block used to look like:
The roof of the new shelter is one of the old doors, with the slate tiles on top of course, and I was able to reuse most of the old guttering too (trimmed down a little).
