Recycling and old chair into a creative planter provides you with a unique, creative garden planter. Not only is this project a good way to recycle, but also a crafty outlet for your combined gardening and craft skills. This is a guide about making a chair planter.
Use an old recycled chair from the junk to make into a planter for flowers to set in the garden.
Approximate Time: 1 1/2 hours.
Get an old chair to use. Take the seat off and use as a pattern to cut one out of hard wood to withstand the weather.
Before planting flowers in the pot, turn it upside down and center in the middle of the new cut out seat. Draw around the pot. Now draw another line about 1/2 inches inside that hole. This will be your cutting line. If you use the first one your pot will fall through. It needs to be a bit smaller then the top of the pot. A roto zip tool or jig saw works nice.
Paint the chair and seat. You may want to paint or spray it with polyurethane to protect it. You may want to keep your chair old and rustic and not paint it at all. Screw the seat on after it dries.
Plant the flowers in the pot and place the pot in the hole. I used a hanging flower pot I got for Mother's Day but removed the hangers.
All ready to set in the garden and look at when you are out there working hard. It'll make your work seem more worthwhile.
By Little Suzy from Millbury, Oh
I have found that the kind of chairs with the seat missing are ideal for this. They are usually found that way in bentwood chairs because the seat is round. I just bought two at an auction for $2 and gave one to my daughter-in- law. A baby high chair that is wooden also makes a great chair planter. I picked one of those up that someone was throwing away.
By Elaine S. from Near Cedar Rapids, IA
This is an wooden chair that seen it's last days, so I decided to make a planter out of it by boxing in the seat part of the chair with some scrap wood then filled it with soil and plants.
By Sharon from Modesto, Ca
Shared on: 12/02/2009
From junk shop chair to garden feature! First you need an old dining chair with a push out seat as this is where the flowers will be growing.
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