One of the early challenges of building the house was defining the property lines of the lot, which had come to be known as "the floating acre" among the local fishermen.
TriScale Compact Folding Digital Scale by Joseph Joseph, $30
Cycle between weighing your ingredients in fluid ounces, grams, pounds, and millimeters, all displayed on an LCD screen. An integrated tare function deducts the weight of a container from the gross weight of what’s on the scale. When you’re finished cooking, it folds up to fit in a kitchen drawer.
A group of Woolly Pocket planters can be put up in an afternoon. Each planter's hook requires one screw to hang.
Covered with wire mesh, the green roof will continue to vegetate over time.