Recycled Magic: A Garden Gate with a Story

Artist Jeanette Wolff's garden is filled with window frames—a recurring motif in her paintings. Her junk box holds intriguing objects waiting for new life, and friends and family feed her collection. The gate began with a tiny window her brother Richard salvaged from a demolished barracks at Fort Ord. "It seemed magical," Wolff says. "So small, square, and 'Hobbity.'" She sketched a design incorporating the window, and her husband Peter built the gate using redwood from an old deck. Jeanette then embellished it.

Found-Object Details

• Faux hinges and crown from an old kitchen table
• Aged handle from her junk box
• Tiny wolf knocker, a gift from a friend

Assembled in her inimitable style, the gate unmistakably cries "Wolff."