Countertop Greenhouse

Step 4 Cut and glue the clear vinyl

Now for the vinyl. I found that taking some cardstock and cutting out a pattern that I could place on the vinyl and trace with an xacto knife worked well. For the base part of the greenhouse I just used a 9" x 8.5" pattern to cut 4 pieces. The vinyl is gapping and open near the sides of the wood, but I found it doesn't look bad and it would be a bitch to make it all line up perfectally and wrap around inside the wood frame.

My original idea was to staple the vinyl down on the inside of the frame, but that didn't work. Southern Yellow Pine is a bit dense to take a staple deeply, and getting the staple gun head into some of the tight corners wouldn't work. So I went to that standby, HOTGLUE. Gotta love hotglue. I would glue up the top and put it tight towards the bottom and then glue it there. It doesn't actually touch the sides at all, just flaps free.

The triangular pieces for the roof sides where a bit trickier, but I traced the roof side on the card stock, cut that out and then kept trying to make it fit and cutting off pieces until it did. It came out fine.

Finally the roof top, front and back. I decided to put this vinyl on the outside because there wasn't a good "grip" place on the inside for both front and back. One could have done it but not both. Now that I think about it I might have done it on the inside for the front piece and outside for the back, but what the hey. I had the bottom edge line up with the frame, not go over it. So it's glued on three sides and floats on the bottom. Hopefully the picture will help.