Valentine's Weekend Project: Planter Building

So here we go!! Here's basically our planter building process. Thursday evening we went to Home Depot and spent hours there (3 to be exact, ugh!) picking out wood, the exact wood, the exact cuts, the exact measurements. I hate planning at HD, but we do it so much! I drew it all out and we decided to go with Option 2, but of course, things changed at the store.

(My notes and drawings, and long planks of redwood)

(That's a lot of wood! Heavy too!)

(So we spent close to $200 (!!!) on redwood itself!! Yes, scary. A $200 planter is NOT worth it right?
Yes, it was alittle painful, but it's a learning experience. And yes, this is the Man's
jerry-ridged version of a truck again)

(Saturday morning, Valentine's day, got up early and got started! Spreading out the pieces in our garage)

(90 degree corners are important!)

(Spread out in our backyard)

(I actually helped quite a bit, I held down the planks and held them together while
the Man drilled in the screws. It was a team effort!)

(First level box done! Two more to go! Of course HD didn't cut all the pieces on
point, so we had some short, some long pieces. Annoying....)

(My clever Man made a template for all the screws to go in the same position on
every piece of wood! Made things go by so much faster, and looks even too!)

(And Voila! El Fin...not quite, but here's 3 levels of boxes! It came out GREAT!! Look how fantastic that looks!!!
Amazed that it actually came out great looking. And the redwood is beautiful)

(Now for the actual hard part...the lip or ledge on this planter. The Man had a hard time
mitering the edges and making it all come together)

(Well here it is!! We had to use the nail gun and some gorilla glue to hold the miter
edges together. This came out great. The 45 degrees actually came together quite well.
Gorilla glue is the only glue I will use for projects like this)

(Finished product! Looks AMAZING!!! Can't wait to get plants and dirt in there!)

Actually, we're not quite done yet....looks done but we're putting on a water sealer coat so the wood doesn't rot. Then we got to put the corner pieces on to hide the butt joints on the corners. Another aesthetic thing, not structural support.

Then we have to line the thing with liner, fill the whole thing up with soil (yes lots of it!) and then finally, finally we get to plant some seeds! Long process folks!

Determined,
The Lady