You're quite a woodworker! These are lovely. My compost pile is housed in a structure somewhat similar to your trash area.

That looks great! Did you have plans to work from? I like the idea of sectioning off the trash cans and wheelbarrow.

Here is a link that might be useful: The Home Garden (my blog)

No, both are my designs and were completely built based on measuring what was already there.

For the garbage can fence I measure the width between posts based on my deck to avoid having to rip boards and set the height of the solid portion based on my trash cans.

For the planter I knew how tall I wanted the planter ledge to be a comfortable seat and I wanted the top of the trellis to be under 8'. Other than that they were completely unscripted.

Good work...looks very sturdy and well designed. Building your own is so much better and soul-satisfying than anything you could buy, even if it weren't almost impossible to find attractive items for the home landscape.

As for the trellis, check out Trachelospermum asiatica variegata. The variegated leaves are so colorful yearround no flowers are needed, though it does have highly scented small white blooms. Check out photos of several at PenderNursery.com It's wholesale but has great pics and in NC so probably could locate the plants easily at your local nurseries. I grow several varieties and they are bug and diseasefree, thrive in sun or shade. Annual flowers could be grown in your planter in front of the vine if you'd like a little more pizzazz in summer. josh

Here is a link that might be useful: Pendernursery.com