DIY: Painted Plant Pots

Gardening can be an expensive business so Hatty and I have been trying to find ways to do things a bit more cheaply. Cheap plant pots are fairly boring and ugly so we decided to jolly them up with a bit of spray paint. This is also a good way of tying a collection of pots together that you may have inherited or picked up from a charity shop or car boot.

Ours were just plastic tubs that started out a terracotta colour.

 



Spray the pots outside and use a large sheet to protect the floor (unless you want coloured grass). With spray painting its best to build up lots of thin layers (leave about 30mins in between each if its a warm dry day).

 

Hatty left her pots all one colour and has planted them up beautifully and surrounded her back door with them.

 

 

I turned my pots upside down and with a contrasting colour paint I sprayed heavily around the base and allowed it to dribble down. I've then planted herbs into them, I think perhaps I need a few more.

 

 

Emily x