DIY Plant Stand (from a bar stool)
It’s no secret that I have a love for making over discarded furniture. It’s even better when it’s free! Where would you find free furniture you ask? Well, it might be waiting right outside your door.
I’m talking about in the alley.
People leave all sorts of things in the alley, and sometimes they just need a little TLC to really sparkle and shine.
And the alley is exactly where I found my latest project.
I was walking to my car one day after work and I spotted some items in the alley on the other side of our parking lot fence. There was a small dog or cat kennel, some scrap wood, and a bar stool.
Here is the stool that I took from the alley:
I probably thought of a plant stand because this stool seems unusually skinny and narrow.
Here is a close-up:
Then, I took off the L brackets and began removing all those stinkin’ staples and nails. There were lots!
MOLD!
And lots of it!
There was no way I was going to even try and scrape this off. The whole seat had.to.go!
So, I had to improvise a new top for my plant stand. Luckily we had some already cut pieces of MDF from another project we will probably never finish haven’t gotten to yet.
It fit perfectly!
Now that I had all my wood ready, it was time to paint. I used some white paint, from Martha’s discontinued line, that I already had in the house.
All the wood got 3 good coats and were ready to go!
I wanted to give the top of the plant stand a little pizzaz so I decided to add a chevron pattern. Gotta love chevron, right?
I’m a don’t-like-to-measure-eyeball-everything kind of girl, so for making this pattern I just used painter’s tape and eyeballed the lines.
It’s not perfect, but I wasn’t too worried since most of it would eventually be covered by a plant.
Before I painted it grey I used a gift card to smooth down the tape to make sure no paint could seep under. Seeping paint=not crisp lines.
Next came the grey. I used a sample-sized pot that I had purchased when testing out colors for my topless table.
Now the trick for getting crisp lines is to remove the tape when the paint is just dry to the touch. If you wait too long you’ll end of peeling some of the paint up.
Not bad for eye-ballin’ it, right?
All done!
I went with this sunny yellow pot because I knew it would go well with the grey and because it’s such a happy color. Oh how I long for spring to be here!!!
Pretty cute, right?
The total cost for the plant stand was zero point zero dollars. Total cost for the whole project was $15.00 ($5.00 for the plant and $10.00 for the pot).
So, do you have any old bar stools laying around that you could convert to a plant stand?
Have you searched the alleys around your home for diamonds in the rough? Well, get a’lookin’ cause there are great things to be found!
By the way, if you have a lot of trees in your property and you want them to get rid, a reputable tree arborist from AlexandriaTrees.com can help you remove them or improve the health and appearance of trees on your property including cases where the tree is dead or dying and when it’s obstructing construction or preventing other plants from growing.
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