Originally Posted by mandymoochops

Mmmm problem with nd of season sales is that if you want them pretty immediately you're sol!!!!!

Another reason for making these is that until we know really whats going to happen in the garden, at the gates - it was a quick fix just to tart it up.

Will stop as far as putting those mdf cut outs of cowboys and cowgirls there though (mind you if you take away the silhouettes - the rest looks kind of cool...........................)

Originally Posted by Oakvillian

That's a bit of a personal question! It would like you to know its bottom is perfectly genuine, and about 4" off the surface of the deck.

That would probably have been the case if we hadn't needed to make steps, a handrail and a box/bench thing as well. By that point it made sense to build one big planter to follow the 45° angle on that side of the deck. And I already had more tools than I knew what to do with - I seem to have accumulated power saws in particular in the last couple of years. This project gave me excuses to use table saw, mitre saw, circular saw and jigsaw (and even, shock horror, a handsaw to repair a botch I made halfway through...).

SWMBO would probably also argue that a project that kept me out of her way and in a position to keep half an eye on the kids in the garden for three weekends was well worth any additional cost over buying the stuff ready-made, in any case

Originally Posted by mandymoochops

Mmmm problem with nd of season sales is that if you want them pretty immediately you're sol!!!!!

Another reason for making these is that until we know really whats going to happen in the garden, at the gates - it was a quick fix just to tart it up.

Will stop as far as putting thoseof cowboys and cowgirls there though (mind you if you take away the silhouettes - the rest looks kind of cool...........................)

Originally Posted by Souvenir

mdf?

Er......<Oh never mind>

Originally Posted by mandymoochops

Sorry its an Alberta thing - most people put these silly cut outs either side of their gates, but when I was looking for a piccy to post I found that really nice one of those other gates - so went off on a tangent and put that there instead

Originally Posted by Souvenir

The cut outs don't concern me (actually they do, deeply). The choice material does concern me. You don't use mdf outside. It disintegrates when it gets wet.

Originally Posted by Souvenir

The cut outs don't concern me (actually they do, deeply). The choice material does concern me. You don't use mdf outside. It disintegrates when it gets wet.

Originally Posted by fledermaus

Isn't it full of formaldehyde too??

Originally Posted by mandymoochops

ok well maybe its not mdf maybe its ply whatever they are they are wooden if that helps

Originally Posted by Souvenir

Probably some sort of exterior-grade plywood. The stuff what houses get covered in.

Originally Posted by Bill_S

I'd use mdo for that purpose.

But I'd also never do something like that.

If you know what I mean.

Originally Posted by Oink

My tomato plant.