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3 plastic pot makeovers—here’s how to easily revamp your dull store-bought pots
Store-bought plastic pots that cost just a few euros can be easily turned into stylish cover pots for your houseplants. Make your pot unique using string, paint, or rattan mesh with our tips!
Pot decorated with jute string
Supplies:
- plastic pot
- jute string
- scissors
- hot glue gun and glue stick
Instructions—here’s how to do it:
- Glue the end of the string to the bottom edge of the pot, as low as you can, and start wrapping the string around the pot. During the first round, add a dot of glue on the pot about every ten centimeters and press the string onto the dot. After that, you can wrap the string around several times without applying glue, adding small dots of glue only occasionally and tightening the string onto them.
- Glue the final round along the pot’s top edge and cut the string.
Tip!
Instead of jute string, you can use any kind of cord or twine. The amount of string you’ll need depends on the pot’s size and the thickness of the string. A 60-meter roll of 1.5 mm jute string was needed for the 21 cm tall pot in the photo.
Painted plastic pot
Supplies:
- a light-colored plastic pot
- matte, sand-toned model paint
- a stippling sponge
- a few black-and-white newspaper pages
Instructions—here’s how to do it:
- Using the stippling sponge, dab paint on the pot’s exterior and the upper edge on the inside.
- Crumple a black-and-white newspaper page and immediately dab it onto the wet paint surface to create a lively texture. Use a page without any color images so that the paper does not stain the pot. Some of the paint will stick to the newspaper, but that is fine. If you accidentally make a gap that bothers you, simply add more paint.
- Let the paint dry and put the pot to use.
Pot wrapped in rattan mesh
- a plastic pot (the sample pot’s top is 15.8 cm in diameter with a circumference of 50 cm; the pot is 13.5 cm tall)
- a piece of rattan mesh, the same length as the pot’s top circumference and about 1.5 times the pot’s height (50 × 20 cm in our sample pot)
- a bamboo ring slightly smaller than the diameter of the pot’s top (in our sample pot, the diameter of the ring is 15.3 cm)
- two pieces of bamboo ribbon, each as long as the pot’s top circumference (2 × 50 cm in our sample pot)
- wood glue
- clothespins
Instructions—here’s how to do it:
- Wrap and glue the rattan mesh into a cylinder. Overlap the edges by about one centimeter to form a seam. Secure the glued edges with clothespins and let them dry completely.
- Glue the bamboo ring to the inside bottom edge of the cylinder, then attach the bamboo ribbons to the outside at both the top and bottom. Keep everything in place with clothespins and let dry.
- Set the cylinder on the table with the ring edge down, and slide the pot inside.
Tip!
Try out the cylinder’s size with the pot. If you do not want the pot’s upper edge to show, make the cylinder slightly larger than the pot. You can find bamboo rings, rattan mesh, and rattan ribbon at craft stores.
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