Great Looking Pots for Pennies

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In a post awhile back on cheap ways to have a beautiful balcony garden, I mentioned spray painting inexpensive pots to make them look more interesting. This is a really great way to make a mismatched collection of pots look more cohesive and it is also a good way to start a balcony garden with only a few bucks. One of the most expensive parts of container gardening is the containers. At least, it is if you want big pots, or anything more interesting than a basic terra cotta one. But does it have to be?!

Here is a 97 cent plastic pot from Home Depot, and a 7 dollar can of spray paint that is designed to make the finished product look like hammered metal:

Here is what the pot looked like after spray painting:

I’m not going to lie and say the finished pot looks like a 50 dollar pot. But it looks a heck of a lot better than couple of bucks I spent on it. I planted it up with some bacopa I plan to train into a topiary. When I popped the bacopa in there, it looked really good. And fit in well with my other metal pots.

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5 Responses to “Great Looking Pots for Pennies”

  1. Louise on September 7th, 2008 2:40 pm

    This is a great idea. I have a few pots that I can use for this project. Where do you get the paint?

  2. Fern on September 7th, 2008 7:07 pm

    Louise — I got it from Home Depot in the paint section.

  3. jgh on September 9th, 2008 5:53 am

    I’ve been thinking about painting some of my plastic pots and have been wondering what kind of paint would work best, so this is really helpful. Rust-o-leum makes a lot of sense because of it’s durability! Last year I spray painted some “tombstones” with a grey rust-o-leum that had flecks of black and white in it so that it looked a lot like stone.

  4. Fern on September 9th, 2008 9:41 am

    jgh — I was pretty happy with the Rust-o-leum hammered metal finish, but like you mentioned, they have lots of different faux finishes and tons of ‘plain’ colors. I think I saw the paint you are talking about. It would be perfect for tombstones!

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