Makersmith - Product Design and Prototyping in Scarborough Yorkshire

Here’s a great way to create a herb garden AND somewhere to sit and enjoy it…

Pick a sunny spot and make a raised border with a surrounding edge about 400-450mm high and around 300-400mm wide. It doesn’t have to be big, just a 600mm square planting area will do. You can use blocks, bricks or a timber frame to make the sides. Fit timber decking or planed timber planks to the top surface of the edge. Plant your favourite herbs in the middle and use the surrounding wall as a… seat; when the herbs have grown you can sit and enjoy their scent as you brush against them – as well as picking them to eat!

You can always build one or two sides against an existing wall to make life easier – or you can get us to make you a custom raised border kit…

http://www.makersmith.works/gardenstructures.html

A sitting wall makes the most of your herb border

Oak logs ready for making into boot and coat racks

We are just starting a great pro-bono project with a local playgroup; they were looking for bespoke wellington boot and coat racks with an outdoor/natural flavour and really fancied something woody… They also had a large quantity of old broom handles inherited from a local Guide group…

The solution – we acquired some oak logs – complete with moss and bark, and are starting to cut down the broom handles and plug them into the logs to make the custom boot racks.

We’re enjoying recycling and working with natural wood all in one project. It’s also fun not to be working to a rigid design and instead being able to make up the design as we go along. There will be some more pictures to share once we have finished but in the meantime it just goes to show that whether it’s a simple improvised design made from logs or a complex detailed bespoke project made on our CNC router – we can do it!

See what else we can do here…

Category: Organic

Sitting Walls…

Boot Stumps!