Lana created this lovely herb planter for her garden with her husband using pieces of decking. What a fun idea!
What did you do?
First, we decided on the size of the troughs we wanted, then decided how high it was going to be and how many we wanted to have. My husband wanted to be able to take out the troughs so he measured what it and cut the pieces of decking to go around it. Then we nailed the boxes and attached them to 2 long pieces of decking to then screw them onto the wall. The first box turned out a bit small so we had to dismantle it and start again as we didn’t realise the troughs are wider at the top but once we mastered that the rest was easy.
What’s your next project idea?
So we are doing up the whole garden that’s our aim, building a shed, paving the floor then some solar lights
Tell us a bit about yourself…
My name is Lana, I am 38 yrs old, I have 2 children, my daughter Lava is 17 (18 in a couple of months) and a son Ryan who is 13 who is autistic. I am married and we celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary this month. We are originally from Kurdistan but I came to the UK at the age of 5 .
How are you finding being housebound with kids so far?
It’s been quite hard as homeschooling my son as well as working from home. He will get on with some of the work but things like PE and art he finds quite difficult. So we have been trying to get him to do something different for each lesson. It’s important to keep them busy with something different each day. We make pizza as a family, make it a competition between both kids to see who can do the most chores in 1 hour, board game one night, family movie nights, and even play bingo.
