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Since there’s nothing to do in the garden I’ve been doing some stuff for the house. My husband and I will be up here between Christmas and New Year, and obviously we will need an ample supply of firewood to keep us warm and cosy.
Now, we DO have plenty of firewood, but it’s stored outside behind the annex, and that’s less than convenient with snow around. If you’re feeling cold, do you really want to go outside to get firewood? Or do you want the wood to be right where you need it?
So I went for the pallets that the wood was delivered on. Yes, same pallets that have also supplied the materials for the frames for the raised vegetable beds; it seems I’m getting almost as much benefit from them as I do from the firewood they contained…
Anyway, I built a straight-forward frame of four planks that now contains a stack of firewood that is about three times larger than what our firewood boxes hold. I must say, I’m immensely satisfied with my (very basic) handywork.
Building stuff out of random bits of wood is, I guess, a bit like gardening; everybody can do it as long as they realise their skills and the limitations thereof. I, for one, won’t be building my own Welsh dresser any day soon…
>Well done Soren, I actually built in sliding wardrobes in the guest bedroom last year. Satisfying but I don't think I will be in a hurry to tackle anything so adventurous in the near future.
>There's a long way from my four planks nailed together to a wardrobe with sliding doors… Still, it does its job and looks passable when filled with firewood. And passable? That's good enough for a box for firewood. 😉