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CREATIVE UPCYCLING
My wife and I really enjoy your magazine, and we loved the DIY article “Potting Bench Plans” in the July/August 2018 issue. Connecting a faucet to a garden hose and using a 5-gallon bucket as a drain to reuse the water was such a genius idea, and we decided it was something we had to try.
The article said that finding a granite countertop would be rare, and even if you did, it’d likely be too heavy to use. However, after a recent remodeling of our laundry room, we found ourselves with a perfect slab of granite to use for our project, as well as some cabinets to upcycle.
With a lot of effort, we were able to get the granite outside in one piece. I then reframed the bottom to account for the
