Blue Tyre Bumpers
Cut-off tyres guard against parking mishaps.
Materials: Tyres
Location: Nagoya
Step-up in Breeze Blocks
Easier access step created with breeze block and concrete.
Materials: Breeze Block, Concrete
Location: Nagoya
Clotheshanger Storage in String
Clothes hangers stored outside on a piece of string hung from the rafters. Compact, convenient.
Materials: String
Location: Nagoya
Clothesline in String
Apartment structure and door frame form two posts for a clothesline made of string right in front of the washing machine.
Materials: String
Location: Nagoya
Entrance Markers
Ramshackle arrangement of pots mark the entrance to this shuttered store and workshop.
Location: Nagoya
Materials: Potplants
Parking Tape
Small space + oversize auto = reflective parking tape on a dangerous corner.
Materials: Reflector Tape
Location: Akishima-shi, Tokyo
Privacy in Corrugated Plastic Scraps
Ground floor apartment balcony given privacy (for hanging out washing) through the arrangement of corrugated plastic scraps.
Material: Corrugated Plastic
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Pot Plant Space and BBQ seat
The boundary of a driveway modified as a pot plant display area and seat for outdoor BBQs.
Materials: Wood
Location: Akshima, Tokyo
Step Up
Breeze blocks even out too-large entry steps.
Materials: Breeze Blocks
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Packing Strap Drain Pipe Bracing
Packing straps bracing two drain pipes together. A bucket forms the repository.
Materials: Packing Strap, Bucket
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo
No One Home
Plastic and tape cover old name plate in unoccupied house.
Materials: Plastic, Tape
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
No One Home
Duct tape across post box signals an unoccupied house.
Materials: Duct Tape
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Gate in Wire and Rope
Rope barrier/gate reinforced, strengthened and given weight (helps stop it swinging in the breeze) with wire wrapped around its length.
Materials: Wire, Rope
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo
Tree Supported Washing Line 002
Trees support a laundry pole construction in Tokyo’s Tachikawa suburbs.
Materials: Laundry Pole
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo
Tree Supported Washing Line
Trees support a bamboo pole based washing line construction in Tokyo’s Tachikawa suburbs. I love the way the structure blends in with the surroundings – its temporary form touching lightly on the landscape.
A flexible, elegant and economical solution to a very domestic need.
Materials: Bamboo, Twine
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo
Potplants Secured with Bricks
Potplants secured top their precarious wall-top position with bricks.
Materials: Bricks
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
Brick Planter
A few bricks in the right place create a living and edible space out of dead in a Yanaka lane. Basil is fast growing and pretty hardy – great for an ad hoc spot of tasty green.
Materials: Bricks
Location: Yanaka, Tokyo
(Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening)
Peg/Clip Storage
Pegs/Clips stored along streetside gate.
Materials: Gate
Location: Sendagaya, Tokyo
Pocket Garden in Astroturf
This pocket garden perched on a residential fence is home to two healthy seedlings. The planter is constructed from an astroturf off-cut attached to the trellis fence with thin wire.
A simple and effective use of waste material.
Materials: Wire, Astroturf
Location: Akishima, Tokyo
(Originally posted on Tokyo DIY Gardening)
Preparing a Green Curtain
A large scale foundation for creeping greens constructed from simple materials – netting, plastic twine, and plastic rods. Coming up to, and through, the summer the climbers should take over this frame, creating shade and privacy in the summer months (like a living sudare (簾:すだれ)).
Materials: Netting, Plastic Twine, Plastic Rods
Location: Kokubunji, Tokyo
Tree Training
Trees are trained away from the driveway of a high-end residence in Shibuya with a length of string.
No matter the value of the real estate, the gardening fixes tend to be the same……
Materials: String
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
(Oringinally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening)
Apron Drying
Apron hung out to dry by its strings under a shop overhang (bottom left).
Materials: Apron
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Hand Towel Drying Rack in Clothes Hanger and Bulldog Clip
Hand towel drying rack constructed from clothes hanger and bulldog clip. Last photo demonstrates the strength and necessity of the bulldog clip in the strong Shibuya wind.
Materials: Clothes Hanger, Bulldog Clip
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo
Reflector Gate
Safety reflector tape on driveway gate and wall make late night parking a breeze.
Materials: Reflector Tape
Location: Hachioji, Tokyo
Entrance Tree
Tree trained over entrance gate with a sturdy wooden pole and rope.
Materials: Wooden Pole, Rope
Location: Hachioji, Tokyo
