Category: Garden
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Sparrow condo’s from Tiny House Scotland
After seeing a great piece by the RSPB on trying to help our beleaguered House Sparrows by putting up communal nest boxes – I decided it was time to ‘Practice what you preach’! These cute little birds were a very common site when I was a child – always nesting and chattering around the eaves of…
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Gothic Arbour – Tiny House Scotland
Tiny House Scotland’s latest construction – a garden arbour in a neo-gothic style. To be used as a view point, weather shelter and sculptural landmark. L 2.1m x W 1.1m x H 3.3m. Heavy timber frame post and beam with new and recycled materials. Redwood shiplap cladding. Sixty degree roof. Hand cast concrete piers. Recycled windows set asymmetrically…
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Garden Gate 3
Rustic Garden gate made from treated timber and roundwood (holly) with boat hook decoration.
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Garden Gate 2
Rustic garden gate with a combination of recycled pallet, treated timber and roundwood detailing by Jonathan Avery.
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Finished Bridge
Finished the replacement bridge. For drawings and other photo see this earlier post.
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Owl Nest Box
Owl nest box from scrap plywood. 2011. Being sized up by a pair of Jackdaws as a potential “des-res”.
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Shangri La Bridge in the snow.
Japanese lantern juxtaposed with wooden bridge and vanishing point through the Scots Pines.
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Gothic Garden Bench Oak
Built as part of a batch in 1995. Renovated in July 2014 for the second time. Rubbed down and given two coats of Osmo Nordic Red microporous paint.
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Gothic Garden Seat Oak
Built as part of a batch in 1995. Renovated in July 2014 for the second time. Rubbed down and given two coats of Osmo Nordic Red microporous paint.
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Hand Hewn Log Bench
A wood craft experiment! Felix and I used hand carving axes to hew this beam from a poplar log. Blimey it was hard work!
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Leek form
Love the pattern of these leek stems after going to seed. I’m wondering about using this as inspiration for a fabric design.