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How to: Cedar Window Frames with Floating Shelf Planters.



Bllrrtt, a mouthful, right"  Cedar frames around our garage windows with a cedar floating shelf planter....honestly I was trying to figure out how to shorten that up.  Hey, it's a DIY!  hahaha

And truth be told, this was originally a one-part'er project that morphed into two but I think it's much better now.  And Mike likes it!  Woot, Mike likes it!

Ok!  So for years now, seven-ish to be exact, I've been staring at the plain ol' boring garage.  Boring.  Booorrrr-ing.  Trying to come up with ideas to ya know, spruce it up but without filling the siding with a bunch of un-repairable holes.  Dilemmas, right"!

After making the cedar frame for our bathroom mirror, I thought, huh, yeah, frame the windows.  Cedar.  Cedar good.
So I did just that, built frames exactly the same way as the mirror (check out that post to see how I built them) but with 1x3 cedar lumber rather than 1x4.  Yes of course I hemmed and hawed over what size but went 1x3; always doubting.

Cedar 1x3 lumber, mmm smells good
Make sure to mark which way to cut your angle in case you get confused.
Caption Three
Set up the pocket hole jig.
Sink the screws, sweet.
Grease up with teak oil, done. ? ?
To attach the frames...there was this weird lip around the windows.  They come out of the window frame and make a ninety degree turn; set within that are the screens.  In actuality, in thinking about it...
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