akshay radhakrishnan made quite an impression with his acting debut in pathinettam padi but even as fans await his next set of films vellappam and valatti he has been showing off a different sort of artistry it is not often that we see actors sawing and drilling so akshays videos of his carpentry work posted on his social media account has followers and even film colleagues like sarjano khalid and musician shahabaz aman going gaga over themapart from making a bed for himself and two for his cats stool plant stands bird houses shelves and more akshay is also giving his house in aluva a green makeover and from the bare plot when they first moved here four years back he now has six trees on the 25 cent land i have always wanted my home to be almost literally a pleasant retreat the house used to be unbearably hot when we first moved in but now my friends love to come over because it feels really cool in here with the outside wall completely covered in a sort of ivy and all the plants around says akshay the actor says hes always been artistic and took to carpentry easily he uses recycled pine his uncle gives him old palettes that come as packing material at his workplace and rents the tools making the bed shelves and more cost me only about 1000 in material costs when i was a kid i used to be interested in doing crafts so i had an idea of how to measure and cut for the carpentry work he says adding that he has taken work as a house painter beforeinspired by akshay his mother now has a rooftop garden patch which provides vegetables for the fourmember family including his father and sister he also made a watering system through which the water that wastefully spills out of their overhead tanks goes into the garden pots even if i go for shoots now i know my plants including my vertical garden will survive thanks to all this green around the house we spot chameleons and other creatures i have planted snake plants to keep away snakes i have frogs and guppy in a small outdoor pond to keep the mosquito menace in check we have everything in nature to sustain us in every way he says so now the actor does not have to worry about his plants wilting when he is currently in chennai shooting for his debut tamil film mohandas directed by murali karthick and with vishnu vishal and aishwarya rajesh in the lead the investigative thriller which also has indrajith has akshay playing a malayali guy its early days yet but apart from malayalam films he is also in discussion for hindi projects it looks like we will see him in different avatars on and off screenwatch have you seen akshay radhakrishnans carpentry work