diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ec2cb7793..7cca7eac9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 pbr>=0.5.21,<1.0
 
+bunch
 jsonpatch
 os-client-config>=0.8.1
 six
diff --git a/shade/meta.py b/shade/meta.py
index 0cc82bcdd..c794df6e4 100644
--- a/shade/meta.py
+++ b/shade/meta.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 
+import bunch
 import six
 
 from shade import exc
@@ -160,7 +161,7 @@ def obj_to_dict(obj):
     that we can just have a plain dict of all of the values that exist in the
     nova metadata for a server.
     """
-    instance = {}
+    instance = bunch.Bunch()
     for key in dir(obj):
         value = getattr(obj, key)
         if isinstance(value, NON_CALLABLES) and not key.startswith('_'):
@@ -185,7 +186,7 @@ def warlock_to_dict(obj):
     # glanceclient v2 uses warlock to construct its objects. Warlock does
     # deep black magic to attribute look up to support validation things that
     # means we cannot use normal obj_to_dict
-    obj_dict = {}
+    obj_dict = bunch.Bunch()
     for (key, value) in obj.items():
         if isinstance(value, NON_CALLABLES) and not key.startswith('_'):
             obj_dict[key] = value
diff --git a/shade/tests/unit/test_meta.py b/shade/tests/unit/test_meta.py
index 885c8a77d..a36d9929f 100644
--- a/shade/tests/unit/test_meta.py
+++ b/shade/tests/unit/test_meta.py
@@ -184,6 +184,8 @@ class TestMeta(testtools.TestCase):
         self.assertNotIn('_unused', cloud_dict)
         self.assertNotIn('get_flavor_name', cloud_dict)
         self.assertNotIn('server', cloud_dict)
+        self.assertTrue(hasattr(cloud_dict, 'name'))
+        self.assertEquals(cloud_dict.name, cloud_dict['name'])
 
     def test_warlock_to_dict(self):
         schema = {
@@ -201,3 +203,5 @@ class TestMeta(testtools.TestCase):
         test_dict = meta.warlock_to_dict(test_obj)
         self.assertNotIn('_unused', test_dict)
         self.assertEqual('test-image', test_dict['name'])
+        self.assertTrue(hasattr(test_dict, 'name'))
+        self.assertEquals(test_dict.name, test_dict['name'])