Busmans holidays for friends - weekends only!

Over the past few weeks I’ve been catching up on some promises I have made to good friends - only working at the weekends of course and mostly using materials I already had in stock or left over from previous jobs. 

I built this really small greenhouse / large cold-frame (?) as a present for my good friend Sags - using surplus glass I already had.

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It really works in this tiny garden - the shelves just lift out from above so you could grow tomatoes in here.   The top forms a cold frame and the central section should accommodate a few trays of seedlings.

I laid a course of grey bricks to keep the timber away from any ground water and to provide a level base.

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Seed box / planting organiser.

I built this for the school to help them organise their planting through the year.  Many people just use a shoe box with monthly dividers so you know what you can plant when as you go through the year.  I thought beech would look posh though eh - and I had a bit left over anyway.

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Tree House

So you’ve got a wendy house, and a tree.... can’t we just put the two together!

Sometimes I should keep quite when a friend comes with that sort of problem, but we got it up there on a stable platform in one day.

..and added a couple of quirky windows in the back wall to spice it up a bit.

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I’m not planning on re-felting it so we replaced the roof with thicker, exterior plywood.

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A new gate for my dad’s house

...made from oak of course. 

He’d been asking me for months!  I got to claim it was his birthday present though so that helped - and better than giving him another jumper I reckon.

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Art studio installation

This one was / is  a biggie - fitting out a room with major storage units for my artist friend Lisa Carter. 

To keep the all the costs to a minimum I used shuttering plywood for everything - display racks, tool storage, wall shelves, re-covering a table to create a workbench

Finally I’ll also build a plan drawer cabinet from hardwood ply but Lisa will have to wait until I get another weekend free in January for that.

UPDATE...5TH JAN

Plan chest done so I can tick that job off the list too now.