#half barrel

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Vault series by Michael Schoner 

“Vault is furniture series about a game of half-barrels as architectonical element.

For making a little side table they are used like a roof on its head. This results in a volume that lifts off the ground. The half-barrels double as storage for magazines and books.

On the shelf two of those reversed ‘roofs’ serve as legs. As they are continued with other shells standing on their side one can see an illusion of a sphere when looking under a steep angle. The two following levels are stacked like a facade of alternating elements giving the feeling of something woven. This front catches the light in the vaults, but also lets you see through where they are not. In its niches one can display his or her presses things.

A thin layer of light grey HPL highlight the insides of the Vaults adding to the graphic appearance of the furniture.”

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You purchase a half barrel and maybe place a liner inside to catch rain water. That’s one way to do it although anytime you leave a an open container out, especially as big as a half barrel, varmints like mosquitoes tend to breed. Then there are bigger intruders – like bears.

Bear-in-a-barrel

Maybe you saw this story a few years back…

Everchanging And Portable Flowering Wine Barrel

If you’ve considered a half wine barrel as a planter for flowers, you may be concerned with the weight and therefore difficulty of moving you’re oak planter. Let go of your concerns because we have an almost magical half barrel idea for you.

Take note that using this idea will likely make your planter last forever given certain care is taken or you use a Decorative Planter Barrel.

Inside magic

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Fresh Lettuce Right Outside Your Door

In a garden, what a garden Only happy faces bloom there And there’s never any room there For a worry or a gloom there

Believe it or not, this oh so positive refrain comes from the ‘Beer Barrel Polka’ (Roll out the barrel) and I couldn’t agree more.

What’s more positive and fun than a garden at your footstep. Lettuce is one of the fastest growing plants in a garden. In fact, their cousin the…

What To Do With Half Wine Barrels

“I give you one health in the juice of the vine, The blood of the vineyard shall mingle with mine; Thus let us drain the last few drops of gold, And empty our hearts of the blessings they hold.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The popularity of Paso Robles, which is now known as the number one wine region in world, has brought about empty wine barrels that need repurposed. Obviously, with a lot of…

Red And White Barrels

I’ve been asked often – now that Paso Wine Barrels sells the unchanged non-decorative all-natural old used wine barrels - why do the barrels have so many different characteristics. More to the point, why are some stained and some aren’t?

There are two main reasons.  One, some wineries and their winemakers, treat their barrel tastings differently with some making it a point not to spill, even…