Farmhouse style can be yours with this stoneware milk jug. Jug can hold candles, flowers, utensil jar, etc. Use it in your daily grind on your kitchen counters, as a centerpiece on your table or as functional decor in your living areas. Perfect addition to your farmhouse, cottage, rustic chic, flea market, primitive, or vintage eclectic style.
Dimensions of this stoneware milk jug: 4 ½” diameter x 7″ H
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Prodigal Pieces reclaims furniture through various methods (flea markets, estate sales, auctions, etc). We alter each piece as stated by painting, distressing & refinishing, We may replace hardware, re-glue the drawers and other misc. repairs that might need done to bring back life to the piece.
Our items are vintage, reclaimed, upcycled and they may have age-consistent wear & tear. Many pieces have had repairs sometime in their history & may have been customized. We take care to be sure our photos and descriptions are an accurate representation of each piece.
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Successful gardeners rely on compost to improve soil fertility and moisture management, nourish helpful microbes, and inoculate against destructive ones.
This three-bin system is a compost factory that efficiently pumps out heaps of finished black gold in weeks, rather than the months you would typically wait during a more hands-off approach. Made from rot-resistant cedar, our ultimate compost bin features removable front planks and a clean look that allows for plenty of air movement.
Best of all, you can build it in just a few hours. Here's how to make our favorite compost bin:
Tools
Wood
7 pieces: 1 inch x 6 inches x 12 feet
9 pieces: 1 inch x 6 inches x 10 feet
2 pieces: 1 inch x 2 inches x 10 feet
2 pieces: 2 inches x 6 inches x 10 feet
2 pieces: 2 inches by 6 inches x 12 feet
2 pieces: 2 inches by 4 inches by 12 feet
Wood Cuts
Removable planks: Cut four of the 1x6x12s into 3 foot 7½ inch pieces, 12 total.
Uprights (for end and middle panels): Cut the 2x4x12s into 2 foot 10½ inch pieces, 8 total.
Side slats: Cut the 1x6x10s into 4 foot 6 inch pieces, 18 total.
Front and back supports: Cut the 2x6x12s into 2 foot 10½ inch pieces, 8 total.
Bottom pieces: Cut the 2x6x10s into 4 foot 9 inch pieces, 4 total.
Plank supports: Cut the 1x2x10s into 2 foot 10½ inch pieces, 6 total.
Back slats: Use the three remaining uncut 1x6x12s.
Making the Compost Bin End Panels
1. On a flat surface, place two side slats on top of two uprights. To avoid splitting the wood, drill guide holes first. Attach.
2. Attach a third side slat, spaced evenly, to make one side panel.
3. Position the front and back supports as shown, placing the assembly on a hard surface (we used one of the planks).
4. Attach the supports, screwing into the side slats and also into uprights.
5. Flipping the panels upside down, attach bottom pieces as shown using the 2½ inch screws.
6. Repeats steps 1 through 5 to build the other end panel.
7. To make grooves for removable planks, lay panels flat. Allow one plank’s thickness (plus a little), and attach the plank supports to the side slots, leaving a plank in place as a guide.
Making the Compost Bin Middle Panels
Build these panels as you did the end panels, with a few exceptions.
1. Repeat End Panel steps 1 and 2 above.
2. Flip the panels and fasten three more side slats on the other side of both middle panels.
3. The front and back supports must be centered perpendicular to the uprights.
4. Attach the bottom pieces, being careful to screw into the side slats. Use the 2½ inch screws.
5. As with the side panels, create grooves for planks by attaching plank supports to the uprights.
6. Do this on both faces of the two middle panels, as shown.
Putting the Compost Bin Together
1. Balance the panels on their front supports. Attach the three 12 foot back slats to both end panel back supports.
2. Measure 49 inches from each end to mark where the middle panels will go. Attach the middle panels with screws, centering marks on back supports.
3. Place a bin with bottom pieces on soil and slide four removable planks into each bin to evenly space front supports.
4. Remove the planks and pound in metal fence posts.
5. Attach the posts.
6. Staple wire netting to the insides of each bin.
7. Replace the removable planks and you’re done!
How to Work the Compost Bin System
Fill the first compost bin with compostables like fruit and veggie scraps, wood shavings, dry leaves, or old newspapers. When it's full, turn the contents into the second compost bin every few days (the more often you turn it, the faster the decomposition will occur).
Begin filling the third compost bin with fresh materials. When the third bin is full, the second bin is "finished," and the first bin is empty, allowing you to start the process over.
When I was a kid, my grandmother had a charming wind up music box that plucked the tune “Edelweiss” when you opened the lid. I was so fascinated by the mechanics inside the little box that I had spent a lot of time watching the movement turn.
I decided I wanted to do a modern-day maker’s riff on the old mechanical music box. I asked around for some advice on how to do it and got a lot of great suggestions such as using an Arduino Wave Shield, an MP3 trigger board, or my favorite idea, one of those electronic musical greeting cards. But I happened upon a $6 knockoff MP3 player that started playing songs when you flipped a switch on the side. When I opened it up, I was delighted to see that I could easily stop and start the music by opening and closing the circuit between the battery and the MP3 player’s circuit board.
Using a snap action switch inside a cigar box, I was able to control the music by opening and closing the lid, just like with a mechanical music box. The main difference being that my MP3 player would start the song over again after closing and reopening the box, which didn’t bother me. I found a pair of cheap speakers that had a headphone jack so that I could easily plug them into the MP3 player.
MP3 Music Box
I wanted to be able to access the MP3 player as a data drive and charge it up without awkwardly plugging a cable into the MP3 player directly, so I added a panel mount female USB B jack to the back of the box and plugged it into the MP3 player inside the box. Loading songs into the music box becomes a cinch when you just plug the USB cable from your computer into the back of the box and then drag the files to the drive.
The MP3 Music Box makes a great, customized gift for anyone. You can see in the video that I turned mine into a Wii Remote box and added 8-bit video game style music to it. You could add romantic music if you make the box for your partner for Valentines Day, or lullabies if you make it for a child’s nightstand. Whatever it is, there’s no doubt that this whimsical electronic music box will surprise and delight the recipient.
The Astoria Garden Arbor is a handsome pergola-style arbor with a bow-shaped header and well-scaled lattice side panels. Shown here with the optional 42" bench, this arbor also converts easily into a charming garden seat with a 42" fixed-width opening.
Western Red Cedar in its natural, unfinished state has a richly textured tactile grain combined with a glowing palette of warm, mellow tones ranging from light amber to deep honey brown. No man-made material can duplicate the depth of cedar's natural luster. Western Red Cedar remains subtly aromatic, and the characteristic fragrance of Red Cedar just adds another dimension to its universal appeal.
Arboria structures are neatly packaged for convenient transportation and designed for easy assembly. The arbors can be assembled in under 30 minutes following the comprehensive, step-by-step instructions. Many parts are pre-assembled, and are easily fitted together using pre-drilled pilot holes. All assembly and installation hardware, including concrete anchors for the arbors, is provided. Recommendations regarding finishing options are also included. The assembly of Arboria products is an ideal project to embolden the not-so-handy and impress the skilled craftsman.
For lasting strength, the pre-assembled side panels feature furniture-style mortise and tenon joinery of rail to posts.
To support demanding climbing plants, the heavy-duty lattice panels are glued and stapled at every joint and set into channels in the surrounding frame. Staples are aluminum and won't bleed.
Features a 42-inch fixed-width opening.
Packaged in a single carton and complete with all hardware and easy-to-use instructions. Includes 4 galvanized steel anchors for securing arbor with cement.
Made in the USA of premium grade, 100% Western Red Cedar.
We’re just a little over a week from bidding goodbye to the month of love. But that doesn’t mean we can’t continue to spread the love around – especially with wine lovers everywhere. And of course, when we talk about love, we also relate that to beauty. So today, we decided to share some beautiful decorative pieces for your wine cellar projects. Check them out and let us know which ones are your faves:
Stunning, custom Cigar Humidors
To be completely honest, we think that every formal, decent-sized wine cellar should have a cigar humidor. The After all, there are more than just a few wine lovers out there who are also cigar lovers as well. So why not house your two favorites in just one space? A custom-built cigar humidor designed to your specifications will make an eye-catching addition to your wine cellar. This specialized cabinet will be able to hold fine (and expensive!) cigars, cigarettes, or pipe tobacco. Note that just like a refrigerated wine cabinet, the humidor is usually kept to a certain degree of humidity. This helps keep the cigars in perfect condition. With a custom wine cellar already maintaining a certain temperature and humidity level, it’s a smart way to be sure your investments are made safe.
Fancy Tasting Tables
Now tasting tables are actually common accessories in wine rooms. But don’t go buying just any tasting table. If you want to add a more fanciful flair to your wine cellar, have it custom-made. That way, you will have command of the choice of materials that will make the table a sure eye-candy. One good example would be to customize the tabletop option. There are lots of gorgeous materials you can use such as hand-painted tiles, tumbled stone, and mosaic. But two of our favorites are the Vintage Wine Barrel Tabletops and Corian. If the budget permits, you can have matching surfaces for the countertops in your racking assembly as well.
Elegant Humidification Fountains
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Humidification Fountains help maintain the ideal storage conditions in a wine room. Keep in mind that around 55-75% relative humidity, along with a temperature range of 55-58 degrees must always be maintained 24/7. These conditions serve to create a cool and damp environment necessary for bottles to age at a graceful pace. The best thing about these fountains is that they serve an aesthetic purpose as well. There are so many gorgeous designs to choose from, as well as sizes. You can go for the basin or tabletop units or the luxurious floor fountains.
Pallet wood recycling is getting popularity day by day. Reusing the old and wasted pallet wood for different DIY ideas is now trending on the internet. Every homemaker desire to craft new wooden furniture items for the house at the economical rates with the use of repurposed pallet wood. Some of the simple DIY ideas are also collected here in this post. This latest collection of pallet project is comprised of pallet couch, sofa, outdoor corner furniture, and different decorating shelves. You can amazingly design a lovely pallet entrance table, dog bed and house and unique pallet wood playland and playhouse for your beloved kids. Be ready to design these interesting pallet creations with the used pallets.
Let’s start crafting the very first DIY pallet idea given below in the picture. This unique pallet project is kept in the rustic texture. it looks natural and adorable at the very first impression. This pallet bbq table plan is also a wonderful description of using the cheap pallet wood.
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Let’s craft an incredible pallet idea that will meet the bar furniture requirements of the bar. This pallet bar plan is quite simple to design and will definitely save your huge amount of money from wasting on expensive furniture items. This is simply the best bar idea we have for you.
Created & Shared by: Perfecting Imperfection
Do you love your kids and want to give them something surprising and useful? try out the simple creation of this DIY pallets kids playland. It is beautiful and will for sure make your little kids happy with it. You can also boost its beauty with the use of paint shade on it.
Created & Shared by: Adam Leonard
Providing you an adorable pallet plan shown below in the picture. This kids play mud kitchen with pallets is quite effective to amaze your little kids. It is long-lasting and cheap in term of price. We hope you will love to design it in your free time. Let’s catch out this one right now.
Created & Shared by: Veenschoten Houten Meubelen
Enhance the freshness level of your dream home or of the office area with the use of old shipping pallet wood in it. This unique pallet planter seems best to locate the artificial plants in it. Its rustic shine will definitely increase the shine of the place just according to your demands.
Created & Shared by: Meubles en bois de palette
Another fantastic pallet playhouse idea is given below to you. In the lovely designing of the playhouse, you can craft a playhouse with a porch, having windows and door in it. If you are preparing this for your little girl, use pink paint shade to give it a fancy look.
Created & Shared by: Didier Rognon
Renovate the garden area or the rooftop of the house with this amazing pallet garden deck furniture. This is an innovative pallet idea that you can easily design with the wasted pallets stackings. If there are some fewer pallets simple buy them from the wooden market.
Created & Shared by: Mu Chon
Just add this wonderful pallet idea to your house furnishing by designing it on your own. Yes, this is possible one for you. Simply try to craft this pallets drawers entrance table plan with the lovely use of the old shipping pallet wood in it. It is comprised of many wooden drawers.
Created & Shared by: Perfecting Imperfection
Decorate your dream home fabulously and make the place seems glowing and lively with this fantastic pallet wall decor planters. These planters will serve your dreamland in two ways. First, it will make you allow to locate and grow plants in it and second it will increase the beauty of your place.
Created & Shared by: Jak’s Yard
Want to enjoy healthy and fresh chicken at home? simply make this interesting wood pallet hen house a part of the garden area. All the hens will remain safe in it and this is one of the durable design of the hen house prepared with the old shipping pallet wood available at the low cost.
Created & Shared by: Erik Cavier
Design out another fantastic pallet idea given below in the picture. This reused pallets wooden dog house is durable and long-lasting. The most attractive thing in this pallet project is that you can easily create it at home by reusing the wasted pallet planks present at your place.
Created & Shared by: Muebles Rústicos ypacarai
Look at the stylish designing and creation of this wooden pallet wall shelf art. This is one of the best shelving ideas to decorate your house elegantly. This is an ideal DIY pallet idea. This is less time-consuming and its rustic shine will amazingly make the place looks natural at the very first sight.
Created & Shared by: Isa Isazer
Here in the lovely picture description, we are going to show you a fantastic pallet idea. This pallets wooden lounge will make the outdoor area especially, the backyard of the house heart-wining. This is one of the best pallet projects that you can craft on your own with the repurposed wood.
Created & Shared by: Palets galery Muebles y mas
Let’s move to the appealing styling of the wasted pallet stackings in the lovely designing of this pallet wall shelve the idea. This unique shelve is wonderfully crafted to locate your decor ideas. This will amazingly enhance the shining level of the room where you planned to place it.
Created & Shared by: Muebles de Tarimas recicladas
Grab out another heart-wining pallet project shown below in the picture. This effectively recycled pallets giant storage bench will amazingly meet the seating furniture requirements of the house while also enabling you to locate different useful items in the wooden drawers made of the old pallets.
Created & Shared by: PAL’ & CO’
It’s time to craft this inspirational recycled pallet closet idea. This closet is beautifully crafted in the simple pattern of styling. The reason for its simple designing is to make this project beginner’s friendly. We hope you will love this wooden structure for your bedroom and living area.
Created & Shared by: Jak’s Yard
Want to renovate the house beautifully? Also looking for an instant as well as a DIY pallet idea for it? try out this interesting one shown below in the picture. This unique pallet project will amazingly boost the elegance level of the room and keep your beautiful memories in front of you.
Created & Shared by: Pallet Wood Productions
Check out the appealing designing of this pallet corner furniture idea. It is beautifully designed and presented here in the modern style. This furniture idea seems useful and much comfortable to meet the seating furniture requirements of the house at the most economical terms.
Created & Shared by: Thomas GuillotCreated & Shared by: Aladdin GulecCreated & Shared by: Rústico Arte En Palets y DecoCreated & Shared by: Douglas BárbaraCreated & Shared by: Palets & DiseñosCreated & Shared by: Raklap Bútor PaksCreated & Shared by: Jose Alonso Garay MorenoCreated & Shared by: Lana Neho
We decided that our little farm needed a root cellar to store our produce in. For those unfamiliar with the term, a root cellar is an underground room that acts like a natural refrigerator, maintaining temperatures in the mid 30's F in the winter and mid 50's in the summer.
Step one: Dig a hole in the ground. We are fortunate to have a local gravedigger who is a real artist with a backhoe. He can carve a hole with straight sides almost within an inch of what you ask for.
Step two, pour a concrete footer. Then start laying blocks. About 320 went into this 8 x 8 foot cellar.
Almost finished here. Now, for the fun part, pouring a concrete roof. A simple flat slab wouldn't do, for you want condensation to run off to the sides. So, I created a plywood from with an arched top. The arch would also create a stronger roof. It also created a very strong form.
I built the form in the shop, then dismantled it.
The arches are 1/2 inch plywood pressed into dadoed grooves in the 2x4's. This created an extremely strong structure.
Satisfied with the form I reassembled it on the root cellar walls.
A nice snug fit, supported by 3 vertical 2x4's on each side. (Not shown in the picture are 8 pieces of 1/2" plywood approximately 6" x 23". These were installed after the plywood sheets were added. They are used as extra reinforcing ribs by wedging them between the plywood sheets and the top of the 2x4's.) Next, the plywood, a sheet of plastic and lots of 1/2 rebar. Lots of rebar. Rebar is cheap, so why not? If this were a flat 4 inch slab, the calculated load rating is around 250 pounds/square foot. More then enough. But it is arched, and up to 5 inches thick. Also the rebar extends into the walls a foot, and are cemented in place. Not sure what the load rating is now, but it is certainly more than adequate.
18 half inch rebars on 8 inch centers. Strong enough!
Next, add a perimeter to the form and pour concrete. About 4,000 pounds worth. I expected at least a little deformation of my form, for all that weight was being borne by my 5 arches, but there was none! Impressive.
Not taking any chances, I did not enter the cellar until I was confident the concrete was fully cured.
Removing the form from inside was not difficult, for it was designed for easy disassembly and re-use.
A view of the top before the entrance was completed and the cellar covered with 2 feet of earth. The wood at the rear is covering the ends of the rebar to prevent injury. They will be part of the reinforcement for the entrance-way.
I poured the roof in 3 sections, for that is the most concrete I can handle working alone. The seams are nearly invisible from below, and are waterproof. It was not difficult creating the arch in the top using standard concrete. The radius of the top arch is about 6 inches larger than below.
The arched ceiling is as glossy as a counter top, thanks to the plastic sheet I laid over the plywood.
See light reflecting off ceiling in picture below left.
Below Right: Add stairs and doors at top and bottom, and you have a fine root cellar, ready for lots of fruits and vegetables. Currently we are storing apples, carrots and potatoes, and we are pleased with the results.
One of the two 4 inch vents can be seen in the corner. The other is in the opposite corner.
To save labor and materials, I built the stairway with half of it on a foundation at the floor level, and the other half of the foundation just below the frost line. I felt that digging the entire stairwell to the floor level would have just created a large inaccessible space.
This project took a few months of evenings after work over the summer. It was cooler then, and the mortar did not dry too fast. All concrete and mortar, about 8,000 pounds in all, was either mixed with a small mixer, or by hand.
Here is a drawing of the block layout. In order to center my stairwell, I had to cut some blocks into two pieces, a 12 inch piece, and a 4 inch piece. That is because my interior width is 88 inches. If you make your width 96 inches, you will not have to do this. A wet tile saw cuts through concrete blocks with ease. I have used mine to cut many blocks, including the angled pieces that form the arched tops of the walls. Since the saw can only cut about 1/2 inch deep, you make a cut on each side. The blocks will easily split then by driving a chisel into the cut. Make gentle taps, while moving the chisel along the cut and they will break cleanly. You can see how good the cuts are in the pictures of the walls before the roof was poured.
Here is a picture of a very similar cellar. He used a higher arch, which is something I would do if I had to do it all over again, for condensation does not readily run to the sides of my flatter arch. He was very conservative and used 28 vertical supports. I used only 6. His roof weighed 5,000 pounds wet vs. my 4,000 pounds, therefore his supports were holding only 250 pounds each, while mine were holding 670 pounds. However, his ceiling was much higher than mine, and his 96 inch supports would be more prone to bending under the load than my 65 inch supports. His wood arches are on 16 inch centers, while mine are on 24 inch centers. However, I have a "backbone" made from a 2x4 running along the top, and 2 rows of plywood rectangles fitted in between my wood arches. He tarred his sides, I did not. To tar or not is determined by how wet your ground is. For more info see: http://campfire.theoildrum.com/node/5596
Other topics that I have that may be of interest:
A solar hot water heater. This has performed far beyond my expectations, even in winter. If you can find a used system, like I did, it will pay for itself in only a few years.
Rion Greenhouse. An easy to assemble greenhouse kit that has proven to be durable in high winds and heavy snow. It is now 5 year sold, and has held up well.
