What would you with this wall in the garden? (Pic attached)

[Sandrine1982]

Hi,

We're starting to contact companies to revamp our garden (new fence, new patio and new turf).

However we've got this ugly wall there that we don't know what to do with.

I thought it would be nice to paint it all dark grey, so that it's at least the same colour. I think that would look nice, if a bit "alternative".

But I'm struggling to find an outdoor paint that has good reviews and would withstand the weather.

I'm not sure what else we can do with this wall? Our budget is quite tight so rendering / replastering is not an option.

Also whatever we do we might need permission from the neighbours.

So yes, any ideas welcome :)

Think Victorian walled garden, it will look stunning.

Definitely clean off the bricks and don't paint them. Painting bricks can damage them a lot. We had to pay quite a bit to get our house bricks cleaned off because someone before us went mad with gloss paint on them (three times, as there were three different colours, all horrible).