I finished a project!!!!!!

I finally finished a project (well it's not actually finished, but I have started). Ever since we moved in, I've really wanted window boxes to plant flowers. But since our house was built a million years ago though, we only have windows that look like this:

instead of normal windows like this:

which means I can't just go to Lowe's or Home Depot and buy standard size window boxes. After measuring, it turned out we had one window that was 74 in. long, one that was 54 in. long, and one that was 50 in. long (i.e. super long windows). So I decided that if I wanted window boxes I (read: Joe) was going to have to build some. 

It all started with an idea I came up with (that I stole from a $1.0MM house on Beck St.) I drew Joe a picture of exactly what I wanted. It looked a lot like this:

Based off of my very architecturally accurate design, we came up with a plan and went to Lowe's. We bought a lot of boards (we bought nine 12 ft. 1x8 boards to be exact). Turns out, Honda Accords aren't 12 feet long though, so we had to have Lowe's cut them into more manageable pieces for us. 

With our plans in place and all of our materials purchased we were ready to get to work. Fortunately we had some help:

We basically just needed to make 3 rectangles with a front, back, bottom, and 2 sides, so it wasn't that hard:

Pretty, right? We added some decorative trim around the edges just to make it a little more fancy (like we lived on Beck St.) and three coats of stain later, here you have it:

Now we just need to get these babies hung under the windows!!!!!!!

Here's what our help did while we were working: