I Painted The House Green, But Now She Wants A Greenhouse!

If you own a home, the projects never cease.  When you get one thing fixed, something else will break.  There is constantly things that you want to add to your place, just because you would enjoy it, or make your life easier.  When winter comes around our house, it's a constant chore moving plants in or out of the house, or under the house in our case.

With that in mind, Beverly wanted to save my bad knees some trouble dealing with the plants so she said that we needed to build a greenhouse!  Of course, we're going to build this greenhouse ourselves!  That's not a labor saver for me, but like they say, if Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.  Or, happy wife, happy life.

Honestly, we've been talking about this for years and also we wanted to use up some old windows and other materials that we salvaged from the old Eastering house on the back lot.  With that in mind, the work began in the fall.

First, we decided to put the building in the corner of the back yard, taking in consideration where the sun would shine in the winter months and not taking up too much yard.  As we got into the actual building process, and incidentally, after we had poured the footing, we decided that we should have gotten further away from the neighbor!  Oh well, live and learn!

As with most things, I over build.  Such was the case in building size and foundation.  The dimensions kept changing each time we started to build until finally we compromised on the final 10 feet by 12 feet size.  Beverly and I poured the footing ourselves.  I wouldn't recommend that to you now that we've survived it!

Then we decided to make it out of cedar.  Cedar is rot resistant and looks good, but can be a little expensive.  Of course, we did see a good example over at Magnolia in Waco that we are patterning our's after.

Who is that old man with the shovel in his hand!  He must be a salty dog

from the looks of that hat!  And, he needs to careful to not lose his pants!  I 

think that tape measure was about to drag them off!

Looks like I'm thinking.  I don't remember what I was thinking, but I'm

sure it was all charitable.  Beverly says "Hardly any!"  It's a line from the movie Witness.

 

Dig it deep.  Dig it wide.  Dig it straight.  Dig it square.  Three out of

four isn't bad.

And then the rains began!

Back near the fence lies the footing for the greenhouse.  We will probably

move the old "fort" after the greenhouse is finished.

And just like that, it was poured!  Well, it took a little while.

The laborers had to put their hand prints in the wet cement!  Silly kids!

And the work began.  It was a sort of design this thing as you go

project.  We had an idea of what we wanted it to look like, but without a blueprint!

With a little of the frame up, we began to realize that we might have over built it!

I think we could always use it for a garage for the Jeep!

Lets see.  If I want to use those old windows, I'll have to frame them in about this area!

Of course, several of the window panes were broken and will have to be replaced!

A better view of the size.  It's going to cost a little more than I anticipated!

Careful on the ladder......

it's a long way down for someone that moves slow!

No, this isn't the finished product.  This is from a trip to Magnolia in Waco, 

but this is the vision of what we want to accomplish.  Of course, ours will be

a little less "finished"!

I like the pitch of this roof  and the shade cloth, especially during a Texas summer!

More details of the Magnolia product.  I don't see us using the rock, 

but I think it's nice.

Stay tuned.  To be continued...…..

COMING SOON IN 2019