Dressed-Up Corn Crib Now An Eye-Catching Gazebo

Dressed-Up Corn Crib Now An Eye-Catching Gazebo CROP STORAGE Corn Cribs 30-2-20 Corn on the cob is now served in a crib that used to store ear corn. Jim Williams and his wife turned the old wire corncrib into a head-turning gazebo for their back yard. "I call it my redneck gazebo," says Williams. "It's heated in the summer and air conditioned in the winter!" Williams had driven by the old crib several times before convincing the owner to sell it to him. At 84, Truman Hudson didn't think he would be using it anymore. "My dad and some friends helped me take it down piece by piece, and my dad helped me reassemble it," says Williams. "We cut it down to 8 ft. tall from its original 15 ft. and used angle iron and cable clamps to tie it down on a wood deck in my back yard." After cutting doorways on either side of the crib, Williams used naval jelly to take the rust off the wire. Hudson had kept the galvanized roof panels painted so they were in good shape. Williams cleaned them and repainted them IH red with silver trim on the ribs. "I added a 12-in. tall collar to the center roof hole and reattached the lid to it with tabs to let air out," he says. "The collar gives it a cupola effect complete with fake vents on it." Williams and his wife Sara decorate their crib/gazebo, putting a Snoopy cutout on the roof in the summer and a star on it for Christmas. Rope lights hang under the roof edge and the couple plans to install a ceiling fan. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jim Williams, 169 1st St. SE, Linton, Ind. 47441 (ph 812 847-7581).

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