ReadyMade: Instructions for everyday life

/ Outdoor Decor

Swing a hammer, fire up a drill, and don't forget your safety goggles. From the meat cart bed to the Adirondack chair and beyond, some of ReadyMade's most substantial projects live right here.

Got a slab of Aegean marble lying around your country house? Read no further. Martha will tell you to hoist that Italian stone onto a pair of moss pots or stately urns as a perch for your roses...

Like Thomas Lee, the early-20th-century businessman who designed what came to be known as the Adirondack chair for his summer house in Westport, New York, I made this chair for purely selfish reasons...

For our home and art park, we designed a deck that's lightweight, durable, and easy to transport...

3.Lumber Lounge I've always wanted a weathered wooden lawn chair in my backyard, but a fine woodworker I'm not, so reshaping a shipping pallet sounded like just my speed...

2.Furniture Alfresco In 1998, on an idyllic estate in Cheshire, England, locals felled an ancient oak called the "onetree"...