Bottle Shelves

Not strictly gardening, but as it's (partly) recyled, and I've neglected you recently, I thought I'd share a recent woodworking project with you.

After inheriting some lovely handtools and desiring some nice wooden furniture our house, I decided that the obvious solution was to make some myself. A while back She Who Does Not Dig had seen some shelves made of recycled bottles so as she was away for a few weeks recently I thought I’d make them for her. The design I saw had no joints at all, just held together by bottles and turnbuckles, so in an effort to make it more educational for myself I added in back supports held on by lap joints. As I hadn’t picked up a saw for anything much since high school this wasn’t as straighforward as it could have been!

After much effort – the last joint took a tenth of the time of the first but it’s going to be a lot of projects before I can chisel out a joint quickly and accurately – this is what I produced. It’s not much, but not too bad for a first effort I’d like to think. Absolutely loved the process of making it, so am currently plotting my next attempt.

Visitors

Firstly, apologies for the dearth of posts in the last month, partly it's been madly busy here but mostly I've just been negligent! The plot is progressing happily though, last weekend I put up a compost heap made from salvaged wood and the beans just keep coming. I understand what gardening books mean by 'glut' now!


Most excitingly though, today my Grandma visited my humble little plot, and didn't even tell me it was too weedy! Very proud.