My Garden Retreat

My Garden Retreat
photo Gridley Graves for Country Living

Tinkerhouse

Tucked inside our garden...just steps away from my studio sits a tiny garden folly known as
Tinkerhouse


Constructed from reclaimed doors, windows and millwork from our home renovation
and a few pieces I picked up here and there...


Tinker is truly a scrappy piece of Heaven!


A perfect place to pot plants


or dabble with a fun chandelier project




There is always something that needs to be tinkered with around our house




Antique pocket doors refitted for their new life here at Tinker.




Burlap draperies hung from upholstery tacks


The roof line of tinker has it's very own look...a row of door hardware, keys and numbers, mostly salvaged from our own home.


One Day...Tinker will appear to have grown where it stands...it's chippy paint will have aged to a silvery white and the Sweet Autumn Clematis will have mostly covered these little trinkets.
This is as it should be...Tinker has always been here in one sense or another...giving a slight nod to the creative side of life.