Here are the features that supposedly make it an arachnid-free zone: Everything is airtight, even the door seal and windows. Spider-repellent lining paper is included, but it will cost you extra if want it to be imbued with peppermint, citrus, and insecticide. The paper is “sky blue,” a color that apparently insects and arachnids abhor. While Tiger Shed says there’s scientific research to back it up, Sherwin-Williams claims the idea that bugs hate blue comes from Southern porch ceilings coated with blue milk paint, which contained insect-repelling lye. Interestingly, the “haint blue” color was also thought to protect from restless spirits known as haints.
Another add-in is a “creepy crawly” den, which will apparently attract the spiders away from the den. There’s also a “No Spiders Allowed” sign to hang on your door, for those extra intelligent, courteous spiders. (“Oh, heavens me. I didn’t realize we were trespassing. Let’s move along to another shed, Glenda.”)
The $3,066 shed comes with a 10-year, anti-spider-infestation guarantee (which requires you to prove, with video footage, that more than one spider has been living in your shed for seven consecutive days — can you say Charlotte’s Web 2: Shed Wars?). But Nottingham University’s Sara Goodacre, who has studied spiders, tells the BBC she isn’t sure it’s possible to spider-proof any structure.
Besides, spiders help keep the fly and mosquito population under control, so they aren’t all bad.
