Okay, let me try that again.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:192656}}

It looks great. Very sturdy & place for everything!! Love that color. All set for lots of repotting! You'll get many yrs service from it. You'd never know it came from "throw away wood" Way to go! Jan

very cottagey.I do love it!

It's wonderful...Love the color...You should be proud of yourself....

That's a great potting bench! If that is your first time carpentry project, I can't wait to see your second one. Great job!

Very nice indeed. I love it.

Wow! Hats off to you,Tami!!
You should be so proud of yourself!
What an awesome potting bench, looks like an advertisement in a gardening magazine! I love the color and the metal features that you added, how cool looking is that??!! I like that you added a hose hanger, too, that was clever. I really like your old metal buckets and watering can and your fern is so pretty! Like I said, picture perfect!
You can make something for me anytime!! Fantastic job!!
blessings-sherri

That is adorable! Great job building it.

What a fabulous potting bench! It looks professionally made! You did a really great job, and you should be proud of yourself! What's your next project?

WOW Tami, And this is your first carpentry project? That is so awesome. You did such an awesome job on it. And I like to how you have your hose hanging on there. What a great idea. Great job!!!
Cheri

Very attractive and useful looking. Just as good as anything in Country Living Mag!
Good job.
kathy

Wow! What a great job! You should be very proud of yourself...this is your first carpentry job. Well, I'd say you've got talent!

Tami,
I love the potting bench. You said your son gave you directions and technical support. I'd love to make one like it. Is it possible to type up the directions?
Or, perhaps, you could show some pictures of the joints.
I don't mean to make life hard. If this is just too much (written directions can get complicated), don't give it a second thought.
Denise

tami58 - Wonderful potting bench! Love the dragonfly hooks, iron scrollwork & that you used an old barn door...my favorite GJ to work with! You will certainly enjoy using your bench! Tell your DS that he is a great supervisor! Jeanne S.

Fantastic potting bench Tami, you certainly did a wonderful job on that piece of garden "art." I love it.

Sal

It's wonderful!! How great you did it yourself ... just love all the accents and decorations. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Hi It's almost too pretty for the outside. It's gorgeous.
Linda

Wow, thanks everyone! There is so much talent on this forum so all the comments really mean a lot to me.
Denise I hope you got my E mail with the instructions on how to make this. It was pretty free form. I just kind of planned it as I went.

I love this bench; starting a new garden area soon and would like to build one of these.Please email the instructions to me,also. Thanks.

Tami, I added your photo to our Wood Inspiration album.
You did a wonderful job! And how nice to have a helpful son as well.

hugs, Karen

Here is a link that might be useful: Wood Inspiration

Great way to recycle that wood! And to think you did it yourself, Tami!!!

I tend to shy away from hubby's tools that make noise, lol. Just goes to show that I should get out some ear plugs and go for it :-)

Now I'm wondering if you've got the carpenter "bug" and what you're going to make next! ~tenderlee

Tennessee, I do indeed have the carpentry bug & I have a list of things I want to build. I did put a big shelf on my privacy fence beside my patio. I saw something similar at a garden show I was at & figured it couldn't be too hard. I was right! I did the whole thing myself without any input from my son at all! How neat! If you like I can post a picture of this too. It turned out pretty cool.
I have used drills for years, but have always shied away from the power saw. I just saw myself in the ER being a couple fingers short & so I wouldn't try it( I used to work in the ER, I'm a nurse! ... Seen it too many times! Anyway, there were lots of things I wanted to do with the scrap lumber that I have and my son has a life of his own & can't always help & I get impatient waiting for him, so I asked him to teach me. It's still a little scary, but it also makes me feel powerful that I can do this stuff without his help! So yes, lots of projects. I'll probably run out of scrap lumber & have to buy more!! LOL

I'm going to post the directions for this bench here as I have had another request about how to make it & can't figure out how to go back & pick up the last E mail I sent out about it & copy it so here goes...
I got an old barn door from my junk store for the back. I decided how high I wanted the bench shelf to be. Mine is higher than counter height as I am tall. I then took a 2x4 & placed it across the back of the door right below the height of the top bench. This is the brace for the shelf. I then made a 3 sided box to be the rest of the brace for the top. I attached this to the outsides of the brace that was on the door. Then I decided how high I wanted the bottom shelf. & did the same thing down below. I then stood the shelf up while my son held it & measured how long the legs needed to be. I cut the legs out of 2x4's & attached those to the inside of the legs. Now it could stand up on it's own. I decided where I wanted the basin to be & then placed a brace on each side to support the wood after cutting the hole. I used deck boards for the top of the shelves. I left an overhang of about 1 inch on each side when I placed the deck boards for both of the shelves. I used my sons Rotozip to cut the round hole. Then I dropped in an old galvanized basin that I got from my junk store.Make sure you measure the size of the basin before you go cutting that hole. I made mine about a half inch smaller than the basin measured. This allows enough of a lip to keep it from dropping the whole way through The only prep work I did to the door was to clean it up a bit with a wire brush so it would hold the paint better. I used screws so my joints would stay tight.
Incidently, the hooks are dragon fly hooks that I found for cheap on E bay, & the hose reel is a cheap aluminum one I found on E bay too.
Oh I almost forgot about the top shelf. I found the metal iron work at (yep you guessed it!) my favorite junk shop. They already had screw holes in so they were great supports for my very top shelf.
Well, that's the story of my little potting bench! If anyone else makes it, I would love to see your rendition of it. Someone said I should make them & sell them. There are so many different things you can do with them. Different color paint, different accessories, grape vine wreaths, bells, mirrors, windows, oh my! I could go on & on about what you can do with them. But anyway I just hope you have as much fun with it & it gives you as much joy as it is me!
And remember, you don't know what you can do until you try!!

Yes, Tami, I would love to see the pic of the shelf/privacy fence. I think it's great that you are so creative, independent and talented!

I hope you find more scrap lumber to feed that habit lol. Please post pics as you make more projects.

An ER nurse?!? Oh girl, you must have nerves of steel! I used to be a secretary in a doctor's office, but I never got near the pain, blood, etc! Nurses Rock!!!

Tami,
I did get your email with the directions. I thought I emailed you right back using the Replay button, but I guess you never got it. I'm just learning about the forum and how to contact people and submit pictures. I didn't even know you could contact people directly until I got your directions in my email.
I do apologize. The directions were straight forward and I understood everything, even the first time through.

Now, about power tools. Do you use a table saw or electric miter saw?
Denise

You did a great job, way to go! I'm in love with it :)

Oldalgebra, I did get your Email. But someone else asked about how to make it after you did, so I just posted the directions on the forum. That way anyone that wants to give it a try can do so.
My son has a chop saw that is also a miter saw. That is what I used. But I don't believe you would need a miter saw to do this project. I can't recall making any mitered cuts. I think they were all straight.

Tami, you've done a great job. I work with a local non-profit salvage store, and we are always looking for ways to inspire folks with other uses for old doors. You know, when is a door not a door? We have gathered photos of screens, headboards, bulletin boards, garden trellises, hall trees and desks. And we were wondering if we could post your photo on our website, just for the month of November? Let me know and good luck with future projects, thanks, Carla

cville... I would love to see your website if you would post a link... I bet others would as well.