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Title: Look at my coldframe!!
Post by: Jitterbug on November 28, 2006, 15:43:27
Don't mean to brag but take a look at mine that DH knocked together in an afternoon.   ;D ;DA visit to the tip a £5 door and some spare pallets and voila - one very good looking cold frame.  Which I might add it already full to the brim with plants.  Mmmh! Wonder if DH will make me another one ??? :-[

PS Don't look at the weeds behind me - that's a work in progress.

Jitterbug
Title: Re: Look at my coldframe!!
Post by: kitten on November 28, 2006, 15:56:37
Very impressive! My dad's agreed to build us one when we get going but he'll have to go some to beat that beauty! Well done! kitten x
Title: Re: Look at my coldframe!!
Post by: tim on November 28, 2006, 15:58:41
What a winner. Just LOVE the brass handle!!
Title: Re: Look at my coldframe!!
Post by: supersprout on November 28, 2006, 16:15:39
wow, that's gonna transform your gardening jitterbug :o
beer and chips for DH! ;D
Title: Re: Look at my coldframe!!
Post by: shirlton on November 28, 2006, 16:26:34
That is one posh coldframe eh!!!
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Post by: mc55 on November 28, 2006, 18:01:26
ooooh, its lovely, well done.
Title: Re: Look at my coldframe!!
Post by: glosterwomble on November 28, 2006, 23:50:48
WOW I love it and I want one! Don't you just love things made from reclaimed items like that. It looks great and I'm sure will be VERY much loved and used.
Title: Re: Look at my coldframe!!
Post by: Hyacinth on November 28, 2006, 23:55:30
posh frame with knobs on ;D A very fine coldframe indeed 8)
Title: Re: Look at my coldframe!!
Post by: timelady on November 29, 2006, 08:11:25
Very cool! :)

Tina.
Title: Re: Look at my coldframe!!
Post by: artichoke on November 29, 2006, 10:57:46
Just a spoil sport question: will the door survive for long in the weather, or did you specially get a hardwood one? I would love to make something like that.
Title: Re: Look at my coldframe!!
Post by: Jitterbug on November 29, 2006, 11:32:46
Thanks so much for all the lovely comments.  I will show DH and definitely its double helpings of beer!!  ;D  I am not sure what wood the door is made out of but it is real HEAVY so I do not think that it is a cheap pine or anything.  So I think that I will just varnish it occasionally with clear wood preservative.  He also made me some really nice compost bins (never thought that I would be waxing lyrically about compost heaps - but there you are) but I lost all the photos of the before and after pics of my lottie when my computer crashed.  :'( But I am aiming to take some more and I will post.

Tim: only the best for my lottie you know.  As I could not beat your food picture had to do something to compete!! ;D

Jitterbug
Title: Re: Look at my coldframe!!
Post by: kt. on December 01, 2006, 21:04:41
Cracking idea. Will keep an eye out for one of them doors myself!