Over 400 years ago, Nostradamus predicted that on Thu, 15 Jun 2006
07:55:35 -0400, in message ,
mm would say:

BTW, doesn't this mean that even if the shed is painted, their in need
of repair house will still be in your field of view? Even though
your yard is immaculate, you may not be able to make your view
immaculate, and that's part of life. But that doens't mean you can't
ask them if you can paint their shed. They may say, Oh, we'll paint
it, and then paint it, or not. Or they might tell you that you can,
expecially if you can point to work you've done on your own house that
looks good.

I was going to suggest that OP refinish the rest of the fence, that way
she can say that she wants to paint the neighbor's shed so that it
"matches in with the rest of the fence" rather than is in dire need of
paint itself.

HTH
PRose