Having a business in your yard means we have to think things through carefully and do some creative problem-solving. We require a commercial dumpster that is readily accessible to the large truck that comes every second week to empty it. Since the parking lot adjacent to the shop is needed to stockpile finished features, we opted to put it nearer to the front of the property. But dumpsters are not very pretty, so we hid it inside a good-sized mountain/planter. Giant metal doors allow access to the dumpster. Behind that, we built a second room to house the riding and push mowers and other yard tools. Between the ‘mountain and fence is where the various recycling bins are, handy but hidden from the front of the yard. This structure has been in various stages of finish for many years. Over the last few weeks, our crew completed the sculpting of the last timbers, and today the last of the paint was polished off.
