Greenhouse built with old windows

This cute little greenhouse in Ohio, posted on the Houzz forums , is a perfect example of a simple greenhouse design using old windows. The shutters make a nice finishing touch!

The rustic building adds interest to a patio area and is filled with heat-loving succulents. Stacey at Down to Earth Digs uses it to start seedlings every spring, and it shows up in many of her stunning garden images. Her husband built it without a set of plans to follow, just creativity and ingenuity.

Lastly, here is a gorgeous greenhouse with an attached cold frame. Barb from Our Fairfield Home and Garden found three antique windows at a yard sale and from there, an idea for building a greenhouse from old windows took root.

Barb spent over a year saving up salvaged windows before starting the project. As she was unable to do the labor herself, the biggest part of her cost was paying builders to bring her vision to reality.

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Greenhouse made with old windows and pallets One of my favorite greenhouses made from recycled windows is this one, which we featured in an earlier article. Greenhouse potting shed in TN Using old windows found on Craigslist, a couple in Tennessee built this beautiful greenhouse that is also used as a potting shed.

Via Hometalk 5. Antique windows greenhouse After collecting over two dozen antique windows, Christina from After Dinner Design put them together in this chic greenhouse build.

Quaint greenhouse in Canada This cute little greenhouse sits in a yard in Harrison Hot Springs, BC along with an antique store and chicken coop. Greenhouse with french doors Using a collection of old windows and french doors, Linda J on Hometalk and her husband built this adorable little greenhouse for their garden.

A little hothouse in California Javan on the Houzz forums shared this greenhouse he and his wife built using windows given to them by a neighbor. Greenhouse framed with pallet racking While using reclaimed windows for a greenhouse is great, using recycled framing materials makes it even better!

A little greenhouse in Ohio If building a large greenhouse seems intimidating, try your hand with a small scale version. Fairfield greenhouse with attached cold frame Lastly, here is a gorgeous greenhouse with an attached cold frame.

Email Address Please enter a valid email address. Via Hometalk. After collecting over two dozen antique windows, Christina from After Dinner Design put them together in this chic greenhouse build. She and her husband used recycled finds for the interior of the greenhouse, including the sink and an old farmhouse table. This entire project is upcycled inspiration! The interior is filled with fun little items found here and there, like a chandelier and burlap draperies.

This cute little greenhouse sits in a yard in Harrison Hot Springs, BC along with an antique store and chicken coop. You can tell this was built to fit the windows, and it turned out perfect. See more photos of the property at Funky Junk Interiors. Cheft on Instructables built it using windows salvaged from houses being torn down in his neighborhood.

He began by laying the windows out on the ground to plan out two equal sides for the walls, then used that layout to build the frame. Using a collection of old windows and french doors, Linda J on Hometalk and her husband built this adorable little greenhouse for their garden. At night they light it up with icicle lights for a charming after dark garden space.

Javan on the Houzz forums shared this greenhouse he and his wife built using windows given to them by a neighbor. They use it to grow peppers, tomatoes, and climbing cucumbers. Like may people who build a greenhouse with reclaimed windows, they did not use plans to build this; rather, they built a frame to fit the windows they had. While using reclaimed windows for a greenhouse is great, using recycled framing materials makes it even better!

Jason Ellis of South Carolina used pallet racking he found for free on Craigslist as the frame for this beautiful greenhouse. The s-era windows came from an old bank and many of the other materials were found for free. If building a large greenhouse seems intimidating, try your hand with a small scale version. This is so the light will still be able to reach all the plants. In our case, we placed benches to have a raised level and then a floor level of plants.

If you plan to grow plants that climb or vine you need to figure out a way to provide support for them. The tomatoes we planted like to vine and climb; we made this easier for them by placing cables tied to hooks in the framework of the walls.

This allowed us to have room to move around in the greenhouse while still providing support for the plants literally growing between the cable lines. We also placed a couple of grow lights where we felt shadows fell early in the winter months so as to make sure the plants in that area were receiving adequate amounts of light each day. In the center of our greenhouse, we placed a rack with plastic guttering mounted on the railings.

The upper rails allowed for great sun-exposure and the racks were on wheels, which means we can move them to allow extra room when and where we might need it. The lower rails did not allow for enough light to reach the plants, so we planted cucumbers in these and dropped plastic netting down the racks so that the cucumber vines could attach to the netting and grow securely.

Knowing the current temperature when growing in a greenhouse is very important. We purchased a thermometer that has a two piece unit so that you can take a reading inside and out and get the readout for both locations in comparison.

We can walk to the doorway and see the current temp in the greenhouse and in the house proper, allowing us to decide just how well the greenhouse temperature is holding. We took an adjustable house fan and mounted it on the upper part of one wall to help move the air and keep the temperatures a little more regulated. Experience taught us that it worked better mounted up high than being down low on the ground where the plant growth could block the overall airflow.

For cold months , we did end up placing a small infrared heater in the greenhouse but we have only had to turn it on in the worst of cold nights to help supplement the heat coming from the wood stove in the living room. Currently, it is December and we have eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers growing well. As a matter of fact, the eggplants are doing better here than they did outside all summer. I have to admit it is really nice in winter to be able to step out there and pick whatever I need to for cooking without ever going outside.

Mary, I find sometimes I have to select certain varieties for greenhouse growing. Additionally Planting self-pollinating plants in a greenhouse in winter like lettuces greens etc. I love the idea of using old windows for this build!

Great way to reuse and upcycle but it also looks great! Your email address will not be published. Notify me via e-mail if anyone answers my comment. I consent to Homestead. Notify me by email when the comment gets approved. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

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