This popped up on my Facebook feed the other day, and it brought to mind something similar that we did. Although ours wasn't just a den it was also edible.
We took the swing that was on our rented farm and repurposed it as a frame for our beans and peas to grow up. Of course it meant my swinging days were over for a couple of months, but the final results made it more than okay.
The climbing frame got the same treatment, but as I had never felt the urge to climb on it, it didn't curtail my outdoor entertainment at all. 😄
We were very tempted to make use of the trampoline that we had at our rented smallholding like this, but unfortunately we had too many chickens to make it viable, and of course the geese were too tall. 😁
Unfortunately, I can't make use of any of these ideas in my new much smaller, and chicken-less growing space, but it's nice to look back and it does make you see things in a new light and make good use of what you have.
Sue xx
Isn't that clever? I really love those ideas. xx
ReplyDeleteThe den idea is great isn't it. I would have LOVED that when I was a kid. I'm afraid I was a bit too big to 'play' in my bean den once it all grew, I just missed the swing ... you are NEVER too big to play on a swing. :-)
DeleteI love creative recycling like that. It gives me great delight that my Christmas Nativity each year is built from old gazebo legs and walls, and last years Angel was created using an inverted plastic laundry bin. I love your playground equipment bean frames.
ReplyDeleteYou did really well with your nativity, and the creativity seems to expand every year. The bean frames worked so well, and the chickens used to love to hide in the middle on hot days.
DeleteVery inventive, I would have probably tried to do something like that as well.
ReplyDeleteSometimes you just 'see' possibilities in things don't you, and it's good to try them out. This worked really well for us.
DeleteGood ideas, love the hen house. On our allotment plot there was a small tatty greenhouse, over winter some of the glass blew out so we took the remaining glass out, added canes and it's now the bean house where we grow our runner beans.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been really good for us to copy if we had had less birds, and no geese. A greenhouse frame hold so many possibilities doesn't it. With just netting it would also make a brilliant fruit cage.
DeleteBrilliant pics and great ideas. I miss my swing, it had to go when we had a mahoosive conifer felled. My dear old mum was known to enjoy a bounce on a trampoline in her late eighties 😄
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
I used to love swinging from the garage rafters opposite that fantastic view in Wales, especially on a rainy day. I dread to think what the passing motorists thought!! I still have my swing seat, just nowhere to hang it from here. Once we move it will have to go back up somehow.
DeleteMy Dad used what was to hand for the garden. My Mum love peonies and he used to grow them through the frame of a table to save them falling over. Catriona
ReplyDeleteIt's nice making good use of what you have isn't it, and it also triggers more and more ideas once you get started.
DeleteLove the creative reuse of the playground equipment! I have an old gate frame (metal) that I want to set up so that I can use it as a frame for some vines, this year.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a brilliant idea, it will also look decorative. :-)
DeleteWhat great ways to reuse things in the yard. You did very well on the small holding.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
We adapted things on each of our farms and smallholdings to suit what they had to offer, and what we needed at the time, it's always good to 'think outside of the box'. :-)
DeleteFantastic repurposing ideas, love them! We're always hauling stuff out of skips and making them into something else. After admiring one of those Victorian pulley clothes dryers at a National Trust property Jon made one from some broom handles and the end of a cot, I love it! xxx
ReplyDeleteClever ... a home-made Sheila Maid. :-)
DeleteI love seeing the potential in something and making something that I want instead of just going out and buying it, it's just more satisfying isn't it.