The arrival of this CB2 Catalog on my doorstep reminds me of two things:
1. Summer is coming. (I’d be more excited if I didn’t still look pregnant in my ass.)
2. Our Backyard is…in even worse shape than it was when I whined about what bad shape it was in last summer.
But last summer, we neglected our yard in favor of putting together Dee’s nursery, and this summer, we will be throwing all of our DIY efforts at the little patch of land behind the Duplex we call home. On the agenda are a new fence, some new [DIY, of course] furniture, and now, a living wall.
So, I love the wall-scaping (is that a thing?) on the cover of that catalog. I love everything about it. [I especially love the fact that on the CB2 Blog, their catalog art director did a great DIY showing how he did it without slaughtering the succulents – pictured, right] But I’m not about to spend $800 on the six Maze Wall Hangings I would need to recreate that piece. (Although they’re lovely, and I’d love to, but NO.) So, my ever-talented hubby and I are putting our heads together and coming up with our own spin on this “vertical garden” (as CB2 Catalog Art Director Curtis calls it.)
So far, we’re inspired by (in addition to, obviously, the above) the following:
Succulent Living Wall by Mosstika (via Re-Nest)
Vertical Vegetables (via Instructables)
[but maybe a clear one, like my Sister-In-Law’s odds and ends collector]
Plant Wall (via Nori’s Stuff)
We’re still in negotiations over which direction we’ll go – my way has Scott building something between the Maze Wall Hanging, and the close up portion of Mosstika’s design (which is actually a snippet of one of her incredible “green graffiti” installations, but we’re nowhere near that ambitious) while Scott’s preferred way involves hacking the existing wall to hold plants, or utilizing the built in planter below.
I think I’m gonna win.
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