How and from what you can make a flower pot with your own hands

The article will tell you how you can make a flower pot with your own hands, so that it matches the overall design decision of the home. In addition, the reader will learn how to make pots from improvised means, without spending money, but, on the contrary, using end-of-life items.

We make a pot for flowers with our own hands from metal dishes

Exhausted buckets, watering cans, pots and kettles can be an excellent source material for the creation of flower pots. The main condition for these tanks is the presence in their bottom of the holes for the exit of excessive moisture. Therefore, immediately, you should drill or punch a few holes with a large nail from below in a bucket or in a pan. Then comes the turn of the design work. You can use the usual colors, painting the future pot to your liking. And you can use old CDs, breaking them into pieces about 3 centimeters in size. Having pasted them on top of the vessel, you can create an amazing pot design. You can use for decoupage and other options, similar to those that decorate bottles, caskets and other interior items.

A pot of phonograph records

From the old plates for the player, too, can get an original flower pot. It's quite easy to make it with your own hands. By the way, there will be no need to make a hole in this pot . Since it is possible to make a flower pot from a plate by heating the plastic, the craftsman will need a metal cover for preserving vegetables in jars, a nail and a hook with a long handle. In the lid, make a hole in advance, in which the hook can enter. The lid is applied to the plate in such a way that the holes coincide. On the side of the lid, a nail is applied near the hole along the plane, a hook is inserted into the hole, which is picked up by a nail. Now the plate is held by this device in a position parallel to the ground level. It is necessary to heat the plate over an electric stove or gas. It will lose its form, its edges will hang beautiful folds down, just as a dense hard matter hangs around. After the required result is reached, the heating of the plate is stopped. Now it remains only to cover the flower pot, created by hand from the records, with colors. You can also create irregularities with gypsum, putty, clay, or clay.

Large flower pots

Large plants require large capacities. Buy a large pot in the store is not always obtained: it is not suitable for sale, it is inconvenient to transport. Therefore, the best option is to create such a pot yourself. There are several options for making large pots:

1. Use as a pot old village large cast iron, in which our ancestors cooked food in the stove. They can be beautifully painted, turning into a unique vessel for flowers.

2. You can use as a large pot a composite container of several small ones. It is done this way: in the two identical pots cut out the bottoms, connect them to those places where the cutouts are made, a large flat plate is glued (or installed) at the bottom - here and a large tall pot, extremely convenient for a palm, lemon or other large plant is ready.