Created from totally reclaimed wood and a couple of old garage doors. This project was a lot of fun to produce.
Approached by a local neighbour, who runs her own sucullants and and bottle garden workshops. She was greatly in need of extra storage for her delicate seedlings over the winter period.
She had recently had a garage conversion done on her house, having some beautiful gate fold patio doors installed. She donated me the large set of heavy weight garage doors that had been removed and asked if i could construct a terrarium/greenhouse for her…
Of course i couldn’t wait to get my ideas flowing on this one…..
So the first job was to measure up the destination for this “Little Blue Shed”.
Making full use of the limited space in her slopped small yard garden, she suggested putting the terrarium on the actual slope of the drive….seeing this as a slight issue i suggested building a platform from up-cycled issue I suggested building a platform from up-cycled palettes. This would leave more space in the a flat areas of her plants and decorative nick nacks.
On with design… after deconstructing and reclaiming the wood from the donated garage doors, I decided to keep the window setts intact and use them as the main front doors of the shed.
I decided that sliding doors would be best, because of the sheer weight of the recycled garage doors themselves would unbalance the front of the shed and it would be great for space saving too. Enough room to park the car was mandatory…
I would then have to construct a frame of rails for the doors to slide down.
I made them from reclaimed palette lengths and built around the window sets. Testing the sliding mechanism was very satisfying because it was the first time i had attempted anything like this before.
First time lucky I guess….
Next was the construction of the main shed frame, using a mixture of donated wood and reclaimed palette lengths, i was able to build the internal frame. Including a set of shelves and a 45 degree sloped roof in the design to keep the rain off…
Next i had to build to outer shell….I used some donated tung and groove planks on the sides and back and an old fire door with tuffened glass for the roof, so the seedlings could lap up all the available sunshine.
The last thing to do was to weather proof it as much as possible. I sealed any internal holes with sealant and then undercoated and painted with weather seal paint. What colour would you like it to be……? Blue? So blue it was…