The Infirmary

Except for a final coat of paint the Infirmary is done!  It turned out pretty cute, if I say so myself. Just how I envisioned it.  We needed a quiet, calm place for plants to recover or get shelter from the cold and this will do the job nicely.

Oh.  We still need some kind of shelving unit in there.   I have a vague idea of what I want (some kind of metal mesh situation) and I'll know it when I see it. 

Get ready for a slew of progress pictures.  Of a not very pretty part of our garden.  The green house is situated behind the shed in an area where we store unused pots and various garden detritus.

I did tidy this area up after the picture was taken.  What a mess!

The side walls were made using the French doors we replaced in the sitting room.  We cut the top at a slant to create proper sloping for the roof.  The actual doors to the green house came from a lovely gentleman in Benicia, CA.  We had gone to a couple of architectural salvage places looking for French doors and windows and everything was so expensive.  Rick had seen a Craigslist ad a few days earlier for a set of French doors and as luck would have it they were still available.

The windows on the sides were a little trickier because they had to be narrow to fit our dimensions.  We found them at a salvage place in Sebastopol and the price was right.  

Gratuitous hydrangea shots.  They are starting to wane so I need to capture how lovely they have been this Summer.  

One of these years I'll figure out how to make them blue.  

The roof of the greenhouse is made out of corrugated plastic and we used sliding closet door hardware for the doors.  The door knobs came from the doors out of the sitting room but they aren't original.  Real vintage ones would be nice but we had these and they are pretty so they'll do.  

I do love a glass door knob.  

I am so happy we were able to find all the components and get it assembled before the cold season.  And thank you Rick for all the work you did to put it together for me. 

I am so lucky.