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Plant pots for flowers do it yourself - Women's magazine

Plant pots for flowers do it yourself

08-06-2018
Home and hobby

Flower pots - a very useful thing in the interior. After all, with the help of pots, you can hang the plants on the ceiling, on the walls. So you can unload the space of the room, gardening it with indoor plants. Besides, pots in itself is already the subject of decorating the room.

Plant pots for plants do not have to buy in the store. For lovers of doing their own hands is intended description making pots from scrap materials. You can easily make it yourself.

We propose to create an original mosaic-shaped pots, woven pots and the simplest plastic bottle pots.

Plant pots for flowers do it yourself: 3 options

Required materials for pots:

  1. pot for indoor plants;
  2. pieces of ceramic or porcelain tableware;
  3. special glue for porcelain;
  4. putty knife;
  5. tile grout;
  6. sponge;
  7. water;
  8. cord or strong rope;
  9. medium sized metal ring;
  10. plastic bottle.

Cache-mosaic for flowers do it yourself

  • Take the usual pot for indoor plants and stick to it pieces of ceramic or porcelain tableware. Leave to dry. It is better to let stand a little longer, so that the glue is completely dry.
  • Prepare the grout for the tile. You can do this using the instructions on the package.
  • When the grout is ready, put it on the uneven joints between the pieces stuck on the pot with a spatula. Level the grout gently and allow to dry.
  • Use a sponge dipped in water to wipe the product. Eliminate all the flaws (extra grout, etc.)
  • Leave your work for a day.

Return to the product - it is ready. Planted there indoor decorative plant. This pots can be hung with ropes or left so to decorate the pot.

Woven flowerpots do-it-yourself

  • Take a strong rope about 1 m long. Fold it into 6 equal parts and cut it.
  • Take the metal ring and pass one of the 6 ropes into it. Tie a knot at some distance from the ring (according to your desire, from 3 to 5 cm.). The ends of the rope tied in a knot on the ring should be straight.
  • In the same way, we pass the rest of the ropes and tie knots at the same level, equaling the first knot.
  • Determine the distance at which the pot will be located relative to the level of the nodules.
  • Having determined, tie another knot on each rope (at the level of the pot).

  • Now divide the free ends of the ropes into even and odd.
  • Each end of the rope is divided into several levels, where you then tie the knots.
  • Starting from the lowest level of these divided ends of the ropes, weave between adjacent ropes. This is usually done by weaving the free end into an adjacent knot. You can not make knots, and use clamps and tie knots from adjacent ends, weaving them in this way.
  • After that, take the pot. Put it in pots to determine where the bottom will be.
  • Without the pot, tie the knots where you marked the bottom of the pot.
  • Check whether you have made the correct pot by placing an empty pot there again.
  • If everything is in order, plant an indoor plant in a pot that will grow hanging down.

Making flower pots from a plastic bottle

This is the easiest way to create pots at home.

  • Take a plastic bottle suitable for the size of the flower pot.
  • Cut the bottom of the desired level from the bottle.

  • Make holes for the rope and insert the ropes there.
  • Hang the flowerpots and place a pot of flowers in it. Easy and original! Especially if you take not a transparent plastic bottle, but a colored one.
  • You can decorate with pots applique.

Now you know how to make pots with your own hands, using the materials at hand. Make pots for flowers from threads, plastic bottles, create pots-mosaic and, of course, invent your options. A flowerpot made with your own hands will give you a great mood, diversify the interior and allow you to decorate the room with many ornamental plants.