So! Despite doing much research on how to build my own little community art gallery, I ended up finding a perfect little wooden cabinet on Facebook Marketplace for $20 that I picked up in Kimberley, BC from a very friendly person who had intended to use it for propagating plant cuttings, but just never got around to it. What’s that about one person’s garbage being another person’s treasure?
Here it is in all of it’s glory
It doesn’t look like much right now, but as per usual I have some big ideas that rarely translate to it actually panning out, but I’m going to go with those big ideas anyways and see what happens!
I’ll need to weather proof it by sealing any gaps and cracks, creating a tiny roof (I’m hoping to get my grimy little hands on some little wooden cedar roof shingles, you got any?), and perhaps changing out the glass to plexi-glass because of the weather, but also because I remember being an angsty teenager with a lot of emotions, and energy, and rage, and glass smashes quite nicely, so maybe I’ll try to avoid that scenario, you know?
Within the same week of getting this pre-fab tiny art gallery, I came across a stake for holding 4x4s at a local garage sale for $5! This will solve my conundrum of figuring out how to install it. I did debate just screwing it onto a hydro pole outside of my house and leaving a tiny note for the hydro workers saying that if they really hate it, I’ll take it down. I guess I get to avoid that interaction now, and I won’t have to make some poor hydro workers life harder by trying to work around a silly little art gallery. Win-win!
I’m hoping to make it super fun and colorful, but realistically I’m probably going to have to find some outdoor paint, but am not looking to spend much (or any) money on it, so it most likely won’t be super colorful, womp womp.
Time is ticking though as we got our first snowfall on the mountains in the Elk Valley! Woooohoooooo