This shed is Shed of the year 2007, Tony is a judge in this years competition
The Roman Temple is a Folly. All the best stately homes can look across their estate and see a temple in the distance. It's just that this one is a bit nearer to the house, that's all !
Addtional Info: I remember admiring a ruined temple one year at the Chelsea Flower show in a garden-stone display. Following on from my interest in all things Roman, I was standing at the kitchen window one day some time later when I casually suggested to my wife that the shed might look better if it was converted to a Roman Temple. She was not amused! Three years passed during which time I produced a computer- simulated view of the garden with the proposed shed / Temple, and I continued to promote the idea at every opportunity. Then, on 23rd December 2004, I was at home when a parcel lorry arrived with my Christmas present, four (very big 2.2 metre) plastic/fibreglass Roman columns. I assumed this meant that I now had "Official Permission" to go ahead. Also featuring - Roman window bars / Amphora / Grape lights / Blue LED mood lighting / Alarm and CCTV / Roman cushions / Interior mural panels / Mosaic table / Two time zones (Britannia and Rome time). Future projects - statue of the Emperor.
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Hi Tony,
Fantastic shed! Please could you contact me about a documentary I'm making for the BBC? My email address is pippa.robinson@bbc.co.uk
by Pippa Robinson on 29/05/2009 from 132.18.---.---
Shed verging on folly?
by on 21/02/2008 from 78.146.---.---
i feel this shed gives a great example of what can be done to improve the box standard design of sheds, well done
by smooch fae the broch on 23/01/2008 from 172.14.---.---
SAD!!
by Iain G on 22/01/2008 from 213.12.---.---
hi this is chris moyles from bbc radio 1, i am fully aware that it is too late to enter this competition but i honestly feel that my garden shed would easly beat this shed any day of the week, love Chris
Hi Tony, Congratulations; I was really happy and surprized pleasantly that someone in this age mad about modern achitecture is so found of Roman style. I am a Roman fanatic and it was a joy to watch you on the TV a few days back. Keep it up.
by Tanweer Maniyar on 16/11/2007 from 193.11.---.---
Great folly Tony. I should like to include it on my FollyFancier blog on wordpress. Do you have a .jpeg version of a photo, ideally including you in Roman Garb....
May-Zee Krakatoa (aka the Folly Fancier)
by The Folly Fancier on 17/10/2007 from 82.46..---.---
Hi Tony,
I'm just doing a bit of research on Sheds at the moment - and hoped you might be able to give me a bit of an insight. Please give me a call/e-mail
by Catherine Dulla, TV Assistant Prodcer on 13/10/2007 from 86.141.---.---
Hi WHED Ive dreamed of the day I could own a shed like that. If I ever get a decent job other than a helper I will sink the extra money into a shed.
I am saving hard since donna left me for someone who goes to all the reserve games too.
by WHED on 03/10/2007 from 86.22..---.---
You shed is an inspiration to all shed owners and enthusiasts. An olympian shed. The shed of the gods. I assume you have a matching house?
by Tiggy on 09/08/2007 from 80.46..---.---
Congratulations Great Tony!! To the victor the laurels,the admiration of the senate, the nubian slave girls and no doubt a consulship and a spectacular tomb on the Via Appia in the fullness of time. All hail Antonius, greatest orgy host since Caligula!!! You really have given Spearment Rhino something to live up to.
PS How many votes in the end?
by The Doc on 19/07/2007 from 194.17.---.---
Hi Martin, The columns come from Orac decor in Belgium but available from Orac UK, see http://www.oracdecor.com . Their bases/columns/tops can be mixed and matched as required. They are polyurethane non-load bearing so I put a fence post inside the middle of each column (or I think you can fill them with concrete). They are expensive but my son negotiated 4 for the price of 3.
by Tony on 17/07/2007 from 91.109.---.---
Brilliant Tone, I saw your shed in newspaper today and its fantastic. Frankie Howard would love it as he used to dress up in similar gear to what you are wearing. Love Judybirdxx
by Judybird on 15/07/2007 from 86.134.---.---
Can you tell us where the plastic/fibreglass Roman columns come from?
by Martin on 13/07/2007 from 194.74.---.---
Tony - please could you call ITV on 0844 88 14533. We'd really like to come and do a feature on you for this evening's 6pm news.
by Emily Unia - newsdesk on 12/07/2007 from 193.35.---.---
Hi Tony, I am a writer for Real People Magazine and we'd love to do a feature on your shed!
Can you call me on 020 7339 4467
thank you!
by Luke Chilton on 12/07/2007 from 84.233.---.---
Tony - I produce the breakfast show on BBC Radio Berkshire. We'd love to come and see the shed. Please give me a call on 01189 464200!!! Julia Galletley from BBC Radio Berkshire.
by Julia Galletley on 12/07/2007 from 132.18.---.---
Well done to Tony and all the sheddies
by unclewilco on 11/07/2007 from 86.134.---.---
Many Thanks to all of you who voted for the Roman Temple in the Shed Of The Year 2007 competition. We await the result on Wednesday.
by Tony on 02/07/2007 from 91.109.---.---
Like it! Very impressive Tony. Do you let it for B&B? This is what the 'Doc' should have done with his 'annex' before he sold the house! You don't do Villa's too do you? I could do with one to live in!...! Catch up with you both soon I hope, Matt.
by Matt Coates on 29/06/2007 from 86.133.---.---
Trust you have a Roman bath inside your Temple. When in Rome do as the Romans do!!
We would vote for you any time.
by Mike & Jean on 29/06/2007 from 81.131.---.---
Hi Tony, could you give me a call at the Daily Mirror please...I'm on 02072933532 or 07771657429.
Cheers, Matt Roper
by Matt Roper on 28/06/2007 from 217.19.---.---
Well done, always said "they are not all locked up yet" thank goodness! All good fun.
We will have to greet you with "Hail Tony" from now on. When are you holding your garden open day for viewing.
by Jim & Jan on 26/06/2007 from 86.138.---.---
Very impressive! Is this still classed as a shed?!!
See you soon - Colin and Eileen
by Colin and Eileen Male on 24/06/2007 from 80.175.---.---
Glad the shed is attracting so many votes. For the next stage of development have you considered replacing the pitched roof on your house with a dome then flooding the garden to create the baths of Caracalla?
by The Doc on 22/06/2007 from 194.17.---.---
Mel and others!!
Just to make it clear, the voting was set to zero for the current shed year compo
Tony's temple shed was mentioned on national radio and many websites,as you can see from the comments, before shed of the year was announced, so it had loads of traffic anyway.
wilco
by unclewilco on 21/06/2007 from 217.19.---.---
Hi Tony,
I recon there must be something wrong with the vote or visit counter for your entry as 24,206 visits to 33 votes seems odd when other sheds seem to get about a 20 or 25 percent vote/visit ratio, I think the number of visits to your Shed seem unrealistically high compared to rest even more so when you compair votes! Mel.
by Melvyn Day on 21/06/2007 from 83.148.---.---
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough, but not on this remarkable jewel of classical architecture. (as Sir John Betcheman might otherwise have written)
by The Doc on 21/06/2007 from 194.17.---.---
pure audacity. Festina Lente!
by A friend on 20/06/2007 from 81.178.---.---
My b/friend has 2 ugly, junk filled sheds in his garden which I detest. If he made them look as interesting as this one, I would love 'em!!!
Well done!!
by Hayley on 11/06/2007 from 80.43..---.---
Fame at last - now that Chris Evans has mentioned you on Radio 2 are you proposing to charge entry fees to the Temple?
by the poison dwarf on 03/05/2007 from 81.187.---.---
Well why stop at the Garden shed? No idea what your house looks like but I'd want to move into the 'shed'.
Roman stuff always looks fabulous but surely you would want to 'marble up' the inside too not keep bulbs & stuff in there?!
by Gloria(Batticus) on 03/05/2007 from 86.135.---.---
Hi Tony,
I love your shed! My name is EMily and I work for a film company called films of record. We are looking to make a prog. bout sheds and I was wondering if you would be interested in being involved? My email is emilystein@artserve.net Thanks, Emily
by Emily on 25/10/2006 from 80.177.---.---
As an archaeologist, I'm not too sure about the reliability of your sources!
But I'm dead jealous...any chance of borrowing it for our excavations at Marcham-Frilford 2007,we need a better staff bunker!
by Megan Price outreach Officer University of Oxford Excavations at Marcham-Fr on 17/10/2006 from 194.80.---.---
Hi Tony - this is fabulous - but what happened to all the Racing Bikes you used to keep in it ? - Peter C
by Peter Clay on 21/07/2006 from 62.255.---.---
does anyone know of people living in the U.S. who have renovated and live in a shed like this?? i am a writer trying to find a person in the states doing this -- preferably the West Coast area. many thanks
by pat@thebeckeragency.com on 07/07/2006 from 71.106.---.---
well done
by mr magoo on 22/06/2006 from 62.254.---.---
FANTASTIC - your shed is an inspiration to us all, and a new milestone - "See my love - my ideas sane compared to...." you rock!
by Simon on 09/06/2006 from 86.131.---.---
Hi
In your second to last photo your guests appear to have been watching that videotape off of 'the Ring'. You need to get them to show it to someone else to avoid the curse.
Hope it's not too late.
by Dolph on 09/06/2006 from 195.92.---.---
This a Footballers' Wives shed - love it, love it, love it.
by Horny Bitch on 06/06/2006 from 170.20.---.---
why?
by christ3l on 05/06/2006 from 68.84..---.---
That is the most amazing thing i've ever seen.
by zelley on 04/06/2006 from 88.111.---.---
I got into trouble suggesting to have a contemporary shed! Maybe I should have gone down the same lines as you Tony and have something traditional! Hail spartitony!
by Mike Grant on 03/06/2006 from 213.12.---.---
Mausoleum? Why am I smiling? - because they haven't found the bodies yet.
by Tony on 03/06/2006 from 84.68..---.---
I think it looks like a mausoleum, I'm sorry, but at least it can be useful after life as well...
by docter Ruben on 03/06/2006 from 83.82..---.---
That, Sir, is just fantastic. Please don't tell us you just keep the lawnmower, barbecue, patio furniture, tins of half used paint & timber off-cuts in it!
I think we'd all prefer to imagine it's sumptuous interior with mosaic floor and sella curulis hosting many Bacchanalian rituals :D
by Beanz on 02/06/2006 from 81.86..---.---
That is absolutely superb - the knocker is very like the knocker on Durham Cathedral. It would be perfect in Wheatley Hill.
Absolutely superb really.
by WHED on 02/06/2006 from 80.3.3.---.---
hi Tony, I am a reporter for a news agency. I would love to do a feature on your shed. please can you contact me on 020 8880 4977 or siobhan@barcroftmedia.com
cheers
by barcroft media on 02/06/2006 from 213.48.---.---
that really is a wonderful shed... but how long before the pillars get adorned with a filthy oily handprint in a moment of forgetfulness?
by MCQ on 02/06/2006 from 82.153.---.---
In a forum where maddness is commonplace, you stand out as madder than a big mad thing that is mad.
by Tom on 02/06/2006 from 86.144.---.---
Your poor wifey allowing this in her lovely garden.
Nice knees, Tony!!!!!!
One thing you forgot to mention was the tastful flashing grape lights.
by yorkshire lassy on 02/06/2006 from 195.22.---.---
testis de canis!
by the poison dwarf on 30/05/2006 from 81.86..---.---
Such a lot of work, and it looks fab, can't wait to see the plush interiors. Well done you!
by Beverley on 29/05/2006 from 86.142.---.---
Nice "shed" wonderful idea. Looks like a lot of work went into this. Well Done.
by Steve of Lessingham on 29/05/2006 from 86.132.---.---
Hail, Tony.... best shed I have seen in a while.
Rencently i have had people saying your sheddies are boring (they are not), some are just not as eccentric as others
