I have a project that I am seeking some ideas or comments on. I have a
summary of the situation below and if you take the time to read through and
give my any comments, I'd appreciate it!

I bought a house a couple of years ago. Many years ago, someone poured a
smallish concrete slab and put up a mid-size chain-link dog kennel. Sometime
after that, some previous owner fashioned some walls and a roof to the
kennel to make it into a garden storage shed. In its day, it was probably an
atttractive shed. Nice exterior and cedar shake roof, etc. By the time I
bought this place, the shed had passed its heyday - peeling paint, a sagging
roof, and the cedar shingles in rough shape. Too bad through the years it
was not kept up. Good design, good construction, X years of neglect did it
in though.

I bought this place in Zone 4 and put a nice garden area around the shed. I
did do some minor fixups to the shed so it was not an eye-sore and it
actually looked rather decent - but the minor fixups were band aids while I
dediced what to do with it for real. Well, the garden area around it is
booming with nice flowers and small shrubs. The birds love the area. So, I
decided it would make a nice, smaller, garden retreat area - surrounded by
flowers, shrubs, and birds with a couple of chairs or benches and a small
table, etc. I started taking the shed down this weekend. I removed the
walls, gate, and a bunch of the chain link so far in day 1. All is going
well, but I have an upcoming decision to make I what to do with the old
fence posts. I have no decided yet and am looking for comments or other
ideas.

The chain link fence posts are set in the concrete slab and seeing how the
previous owners did things, I would bet they are set in a 3ft x 3 xt footing
under the slab. Removing them does not seem like an option because I do not
want to remove and replace the slab. My ideas were to either just cut the
posts off and leave it at that or leave them and do somethig with them. My
thoughts were perhaps boxing them in nicely finished cedar and having
hanging baskets, bird house, bird feeders, climbing vines, etc on these new
cedar posts. I think I could make that attractive but I don't find any
pre-designed things I can use to do this - so I'd be designing and building
from scratch. I'm not sure if I want to put that much time in it. The more I
would do, the more usuable space I cut into as well - this isn't too major
though. So, I'm leaning towards just cutting the posts off - mainly because
I don't think I can find the time to create a concealing system. I'm sure
given the time, I could create something more attractive and perhaps adding
some functions - such as adding electrical to the posts, low voltage
lighting, etc as well as the bird houses etc. If something pre-design and
pre-made was available I would probably go that way. By given the time
investment, I think I am going to cut the posts off.

Anyone with ideas, thoughts, comments, or done this?