Eco Trick #3 Rest Area Setup

By urban farmer -

Our Little Oasis

#TurningTrashesIntoGoodies


We work hard and play hard too! After hours of labour intensive work in the hot sun, nothing beats having a little space to have our meals and drinks to chill and bond. Every piece of furnitures here are up-cycled. They all have a previous life.

#TableAndChairsWithHistory #JustLovePrelovedItems

The table used to be a chill table at a garden patio of a landed bungalow. The owner that blessed us this beautiful piece bought this preloved item from the first owner. That makes us the proud third owner. 


The green chairs are from a neighbourhood clinic. The GP that we have known for 2 decades has decided to retire and wrapped up the clinic.  We had them during covid period. Stacked them in our store room for 2 years before finally putting them to good use here. Love them. 

Both table and chairs are totally weatherproof. Superb quality products, real waste if they are to go into dumpster.

#kidsTableReused #BedPlankReused #WaterproofMaskingTape

Chanced upon this kid table. Infact the whole set of kid's bedroom furniture discarded at a dumpster, need only the table hence took only this. Love the size. 


Gave it a good wash. Base still solid. Found a discarded bed plank, sawed into right size. Tape the edge with waterproof floor masking tape (used extensively during covid, left over) to protect the edges. Great space as serving table.

Was blessed with a few Ikea boxes (no cover. We bought 3 covers to go with the base). Stacked the boxes on an old, discarded trolley and they fit nicely right under the table! We have instance storage under the table.  

#TrolleysFromFactory 

In a semi-outdoor setting, nothing beats stainless steel furniture. Anything on good wheels is really truly useful. These 2 beautiful trolleys are from a factory that decided to move on. We are so blessed to have them at the right timing.


Back to Eco building page. Click here

Follow us on FB or IG for more updates

#likeOurPage #FollowOurPage
From time to time, we will document the details of our experience and notify the updates on IG and FB. Do follow our page if you are keen to be updated.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Our Eco Lodge

By urban farmer -
Image
The Rational #whydothis The first step towards sustainability is really about acquiring less.  We seek to reuse as much as we can, whatever that is already onsite. Recycle and reuse required lots of planning and coordination on the planner/builder part. The person needs to really think out of the box too. It is always easier and less work to just outsource, pay someone to just bulldoze the whole place, throw away all the old,  acquire new and restart. But let’s walk the talk. Being eco friendly starts from OWN. Do the little thing right. This lodge that we have built uses at least 80% of recycled materials. Things that are brand new are mostly for structural building, due to safety concerns.  Sharing Our Thoughts These are some  up-cycling  little tricks we did. We will expand and add the details for each item Monthly.  Stay tune! #Infrastructure #lookgoodpart  #Plantingessentials #usuallyneglectedpart Tricks #1: Recycled bottles as support for gutter, Feb 2023 Trick #2: Water Channel
Read more

Soil Enzymes and it's effect

By urban farmer -
Image
Note: No part of this document, be it pictures or content can be reproduced/reused without written permission from this blog owner. #Revisioning Revision 1 published on 21 Oct 2020 Revised edition on 17 Mar 2022 I am a film believer of soil health and beneficial microbes. I personally witnessed my clayey orange soil  transformed to  rich dark loamy texture soil over time with right beneficial microbes introduced when I first embarked on the journey to grow food for own consumption.  Yes, it takes time as compare to instant results using chemicals but it is definitely worth the while in the long run. I struggled for the first half to one year, see lights on second year and simply love it thereafter. 10 years on, you can take anything from my plot, but not my microbes rich soil. To grow food for fun and have that occasional harvests is a great experience. Growing food with expected harvests outcome at timely manner bring planting to a total different level. To have that, soil health is a
Read more

About Sweet Melons

By urban farmer -
Image
Background #onceuponatime Note: This post is purely based on growers' observations, your results may vary. No part of this can be reused without written permission from the blog writer. We started our journey of sweet melons/cantaloupes growing back in 2012, about 10 years ago. Then the green house conditions are non ideal for sweet melon growing. Low roof, hot and humid. We also cannot do constant drip system for that site.  Most cultivars of sweet melons did not flourish in the previous setup except one,  Taiwan cantaloupe (洋香瓜). We are able to plant pretty well consequentially almost every year.   Our main focus at that time is really asia leafy vegetables hence very little space are allocated for cucurbits growing. However, they flourished with that little space allocated and are our pride in our mini plot. New Plot and New Journey #restart #cantaloupes #sweetmelons We are all excited to restart the journey. It is really a fresh start. New plot/new environment, new set of seeds
Read more