A couple of months into COVID lockdown, I made a couple of box planters as mothers day gifts for my mom and my mother in law.

We built a wine cellar for my parent’s Madison house. Built it in a single day with the help of my dad and brother. Didn’t put any finish on the wood. Capacity is something like 500+ bottles, and my dad managed fill it up!

Writing this in 2023. I made a stepped planter to add some color to our back porch. Four years after originally making it, it’s holding up great and looks fantastic by mid-summer when the flowers fill in. Would definitely build another, but would make the trays deeper as the plants tend to get root bound.