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28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

Today I show you how to easily camouflage your outdoor trash cans in your garden.

Because I think we all agree... Those big green or yellow trash cans aren't very pretty.

Fortunately, there are easy and economical ways to hide them. A little imagination, a little DIY... And that's it!

With wooden pallets, a coat of paint, climbing flowers, a screen, planters or giant stickers to customize them...

Hiding your outdoor trash cans and sprucing up your home at the same time is easy and inexpensive.

We have selected 28 great ideas for you to make a homemade trash can cover that will amaze your neighbors!

Here are 28 ways to hide your outdoor trash cans . Watch:

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

Contents
  • 1. Operation Camouflage
  • 2. A trash can cover with flowers!
  • 3. A simple and effective bin cover
  • 4. A bin cover for sorting
  • 5. A custom bin cover
  • 6. A bin cover with door
  • 7. A bit of color for this bin cover
  • 8. A multi-purpose bin cover
  • 9. Well-protected bins
  • 10. A trash can cover that looks like a planter
  • 11. Stickers to hide garbage cans
  • 12. A trash can cover with climbing flowers
  • 13. A trash can cover with flowers
  • 14. A folding screen bin cover
  • 15. A tightly closed bin cover
  • 16. A discreet and aesthetic bin cover
  • 17. A bin cover with doors
  • 18. A camouflaged trash can cover with climbing plants
  • 19. A trash can cover under the terrace...
  • 20. Or under the stairs
  • 21. Garbage cans hidden behind wooden fences
  • 22. A homemade trash can cover
  • 23. An outdoor shower transformed into a trash can hide
  • 24. A mesh bin cover with door
  • 25. A trash can cover made with trellis
  • 26. A bin cover with reeds
  • 27. A vertical fence
  • 28. A simple and very economical fence
  • Your turn...

1. Operation Camouflage

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

Successful camouflage operation for these two outdoor bins! To make them go unnoticed, the trick is to paint the enclosure made of pallets of the same color as the trash cans.

2. A trash can cover with flowers!

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

When you can combine business with pleasure, why deprive yourself of it? This outdoor bin cover made of pallets also serves as a planter for pretty plants .

3. A simple and effective bin cover

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

This bin cover is very simple and discreet . But it fulfills its function perfectly:to hide an unsightly outdoor trash can.

4. A bin cover for sorting

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

Sorting your waste takes space (and time). But it's essential, isn't it? So why not also use the exterior bin cover for the sorting bins ? Each bin has its place.

5. A personalized trash can cover

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

All it took was two palettes and a bit of paint to make a superb trash can cover. And to customize , nothing easier ! You can paint the house number and add one or two decorations for the trash can cover.

To discover: Where To Find FREE Wooden Pallets Near You?

6. A bin cover with door

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

Are you a bit of a handyman? So, take pallets to make the trash can cover. And also install a door made with wooden pallets . It's cleaner and it's discreet.

7. A bit of color for this trash can cover

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

No need to have a sad trash can cover, right? Add some color in your garden by painting the trash can cover! This will immediately give a touch of cheerfulness to your garden. What do you think of this yellow painted bin cover?

8. A multi-function bin cover

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

Not only does this wooden bin cover perfectly hide the outdoor bin and those for sorting... But it also makes a perfect log storage !

9. Well-protected bins

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

The advantage of this bin cover with a lid that lifts is that it protects your bins from the weather . Recycling bins do not fill with water as soon as it rains.

10. A trash can cover that looks like a planter

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

Each bin is tidy and out of sight. But in addition, we have a lovely raised garden ! Really great these succulents that embellish this pallet bin cover. To make a small urban garden, the idea is great!

11. Stickers to hide garbage cans

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

You're not very handy? It's not serious ! Here is a great idea to camouflage your garbage cans easily. Just stick some giant stickers on it . They blend in completely with the decor!

12. A trash can cover with climbing flowers

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

This wooden shelter is made with spruce pine trellis. It's pretty. But above all, the plants will be able to climb on this structure. They will bloom and hide the garbage cans at the same time.

13. A trash can cover with flowers

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

This shelter for outdoor bins also functions as a flower box ! It is simply beautiful. And in addition, the scent of the flowers masks the nauseous odors garbage cans.

14. A folding screen dustbin cover

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

Nothing could be simpler than making this bin cover with these screens arranged like a screen. This opens by pivoting to put and remove the outer bin, while hiding it. Convenient!

15. A well-closed bin cover

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

You have to guess that trash cans are hidden in this small closed wooden shed! They are totally invisible . Bad odors cannot escape. And the bins are well protected from animals .

16. A discreet and aesthetic bin cover

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

A trash can, where? This bin cover is particularly effective:it is discreet, aesthetic, functional... What more could you ask for?

17. A bin cover with doors

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

Installing a trash can cover with doors is a good idea. Why ? First, because you just have to close the doors to easily hide the bins . But then, it discourages animals from rummaging through your bins!

18. A camouflaged trash can cover with climbing plants

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

This trash can cover is very simple to make. A few wooden panels are enough. But the good idea is to vegetate them . All you have to do is climb some climbing plants , like ivy!

19. A trash can cover under the terrace...

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

If you have a space under the terrace, using it to store garbage cans is a great idea. It's a space saver important in the garden. Just install two doors to hide them better!

20. Or under the stairs

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

Same idea if you have a small unused space near the stairs or under the stairs!

21. Garbage cans hidden behind wooden fences

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

These wooden fences hide their game well! Because who would guess that they carefully hide trash cans?

22. A homemade trash can cover

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

You can totally make a minimalist trash can cover wood on a small piece of your land. All you need are planks and posts.

23. An outdoor shower transformed into a trash can hide

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

Of course, this screen for outdoor shower was not originally designed to hide trash cans. But it is solid, robust and aesthetic. And it fulfills its function very well.

24. A mesh bin cover with door

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

This custom fence is perfect for hiding trash cans. Impossible to see them or to access them! Very useful in areas frequented by wild animals (raccoons, wild boars...) or juvenile delinquents;-)

25. A trash can cover made with trellis

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

Here are two different ways to hide trash cans:a lattice varnished wood and stained with braces (which actually hides an air conditioning unit) or a trellis painted white . Which do you prefer?

26. A bin cover with reeds

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

It is a question of setting up posts and crosspieces to connect them to each other. Then simply attach bamboo reeds or reeds on the sleepers.

27. A vertical fence

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

Don't want to make a trash can cover? All you have to do is install a screen as a vertical fence. The trash cans are discreet behind! A nice and simple way to hide trash cans that fits well in the home.

28. A simple and very economical fence

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

28 Ways to Hide Your Outdoor Trash (And Beautify Your Home).

This fence or masonry wall are probably the most simple way and more economic hide garbage cans outside. And besides, it's very easy to do!

Your turn...

Have you tried any of these ideas for hiding outdoor trash cans? Let us know in the comments if it worked for you. We can't wait to read you!