A friend of ours unloaded a bunch of chairs for super cheap. I really like the chairs because they have a great retro vibe and figured my rickety generic chair from Office Max could use a style update. However, when 6 chairs arrived at our shop, I began to wonder how I was going to find space. I’d already decided to create a bench using the chair seats and create a nook a la Six Feet Under(the nook in Keith’s house). More to come on this project on a future blog. So I unscrewed the roller base of the chair since I won’t need it for the kitchen bench and began to brainstorm on how I could utilize the whole chair. I remembered seeing a blog post back in the day where another designer had used the roller base to make a planter mobile, and had loved the idea. With my tomato plants and bell peppers quickly sprouting up from wee seeds a few weeks back, I needed to find a larger space and replant them. Using reclaimed wood from other furniture projects, I created 2 mobile planters. I decided to create a cutout in one box, and lined it with wire to allow the soil to penetrate and warm up the soil from the sides, as well as the top. The second box is a bit smaller and sans cut out. Once I started planting, I really embraced the idea! I was able to avoid back pain by eliminating the crouching and bending that comes with planting in the ground, and love that I can move my plants to spots with more sunlight based on daily cloud activity and push my plants to the hose for rehydration. I’d like to create more, so if you have ideas send them my way. I’ll keep you posted on the progress of my plants in my “raised” (truly raised) beds.
