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A very elegant fire pit: another story in pictures

Posted in Before & After, Building, Designing, Gardening, tagged , , , on October 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »

We saw some raised beds in Sunset made out of corrugated and thought they were very stylish. And, we thought corrugated might be a good choice for an idiot proof fire pit. Turns out, we were right!  

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The slowest carpenter in the world: a story in pictures

Posted in Before & After, Building, Gardening, tagged , , on September 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »

We added a “room” to our garden this summer – a low deck with a fire pit. Actually, Steve added it, at a pace that led me to call him the slowest carpenter in the world (fortunately he has an excellent sense of humor). I thought this would be a simple project – a couple [...]

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Play it again Sam, or, Garden Design Phase 1

Posted in Designing, Gardening, tagged , , , , , on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve spent hours looking over the deck railing down on the lunar landscape below and trying to figure out what to do with it.   Our original idea was a bocce court, but even though the yard looks really, really big from up above, it turns out bocce courts are even bigger (for the record, [...]

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How to tame a hillside

Posted in Before & After, Building, Gardening, tagged , , , on September 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The hill behind the driveway is not the hill where I slipped and broke my ankle, but it might as well have been. It is steep and slippery and we knew it was just a matter of time before we, or someone else, met an unfortunate fate. See the cool gate, which is at the [...]

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De gustibus non est disputandum, or, when a half wine barrel is not just a half wine barrel

Posted in Designing, Gardening, Random Thoughts, tagged , , , on July 13, 2011 | 9 Comments »

We have some lovely friends with truly excellent taste who told me recently that they thought using half wine barrels as planters was outdated and tacky and they had broken all theirs up. At the very moment they said this, we had in our shed a wine barrel waiting to be cut in half and [...]

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