If you don’t know how to renovate a usual wooden planter, you can use a chevron pattern or do like this – in a vintage shabby way. For the project you’ll need a wood planter box, several dozen wood shims, wood glue, craft paint or paint samples from the paint department, small paintbrushes, miter box...
Plants and flowers are in the limelight in spring, and of course so are the planters. Everybody is looking for his or her own way to be original, to make unusual pieces. In Tucson, Az, there is a special holiday named Day of the Dead celebrated every year. The traditional gifts and decorations are human...
Here’s a way to make usual ceramic rough planters very original and party-like. You’ll need a brown pot, some painter’s tape, Neon Pink fluorescent spray paint and a pair of crafty hands. Start off by wrapping the tape around your pot at your desired height. You can split it in half so it would be...
Decorating your garden or just bringing some nature to your home is necessary in spring. For these 3 planters with inscriptions you’ll need 3 terracotta pots, 2-3 plastic pots-when turned upside-down, tray, outdoor paint, 2 brushes-one for overall coverage, a smaller detail brush to apply the lettering painter’s tape, a drill, an exacto knife and...
It’s spring and nature and green plants inside make us enjoy and look forward to the summer. Let’s make a simple planter for green plants and grass. The supplies are: pine 1×6,”wood glue, wood stain, polyurethane, landscapers cloth (optional), vented frieze board. Assemble your wood pieces by first gluing the short side pieces to your...
Even a usual planter can be original if you have some imagination. Let’s create a fashionable sea decorative planter. You’ll need a planter, acrylic paste of white color, grey acrylic paint, decorative paint, river stones, plastic figures, ceramic tiles, brushes, a pencil and liquid nails. Paint the planter creating the stone texture, put the paste...
Patchwork is a rather simple technique that allows you to create original things without making much effort. You won’t need a sewing machine, everything may be done with your hands. Now we suggest you to make a patchwork planter. You’ll need a planter, some paint and different patches to decorate. Paint the planter and let...
If you love gardening, you definitely have some flowers or plants that are waiting to be planted and grown. Today we’ll tell you how to make cute planters for not more than $1 each. You’ll need pots, a little cream acrylic paint and some paint of different colors like peachy pink, red, blue, and yellow....
If you have an old chair that is lying in your house for a hundred of years and you don’t know what to do with it – make a nice flower pot with it! You won’t need the seat for this. You’ll need a chair, some paint, a net and fabric for plants, some soil....
All these terra cotta pots and simple glass vases are great because they are cheap and serve well but they usually looks quite boring. Although those that looks better are usually much more expensive. You might wonder how to make such pots and vases looks better and that’s isn’t as hard as you might thought....