Spring DIY Upcycled Chair Planter

Don’t you love Spring? I always get so excited to plant flowers and get my yard ready for outdoor entertaining! When my kids were little I remember taking an old chair, spray painting it yellow and planting flowers in it. So over the weekend when my husband and I were out on our early morning Saturday, walk and I came across an old chair abandoned on a street corner, I knew what I wanted to do!

DIY Spring Ideas

I’m joining some friends who are sharing the prettiest spring DIY ideas. Scroll down and hop over to see the tutorials!

Upcycle an Old Chair Into a Planter

An old chair can become the perfect upcycled planter. There are a few ways to turn an old chair into a planter. I am going to share two ways to turn an old chair into a delightful flower planter.

Chair Planter with No Pot

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This is the way I made a chair into a planter about 20 years ago. You don’t need a pot to use this method. This is a great upcycle if you have a chair with a seat that is broken or missing.

No Pot Chair Planter Supplies:

• old chair with no seat
• chicken wire or screen door material
• coco liner material
• garden dirt
• flowers
• Staple Gun

How to Make a Chair Planter with No Pot

• Cut a large length of window screen or chicken wire and staple it onto the top edges of the chair cavity, leave enough in the middle so it creates a cavity in the middle of the open chair seat.
• Line the chicken wire or window screen material with coir/coco liner.
• Fill cavity 3/4 way full with garden soil.
• Plant flowers in the cavity.
• Fill in holes between flowers with garden soil.
• Enjoy your planter!

Make a Chair Planter with a Pot

I find this to be an easier way but it might not be as charming? What do you think? The chair that I found on the side of the road was originally a “commode chair” so it already had a hole cut out fo a container. I also love that it has a large apron that conceals the bowl. It’s perfect for a planter! But you don’t need this type of chair to make this planter. Any chair with a removable seat will work!

Potted Chair Planter Supplies:

• Old chair
• Hammer and nails
• Shims or a couple pieces of scrap wood
• Primer and spray paint (optional)
• Pot
• Garden Soil
• Flowers

How to Make a Potted Chair Planter

Here is how you can transform an old chair into a cute planter in minutes!

• Take the seat off your chair. Or, if your seat is hard to remove, but a hole in the middle of the seat. Measure your pot and cut the hole to be smaller than the widest point of the pot.
• Paint your chair (optional). I painted my chair to give it more strength against the elements but you can also leave the bare wood of your chair or give it a coat of polyurethane to protect it. I used a ultra-bonding primer first and then put a chalk spray paint over the top.
• If you didn’t cut a hole in the seat, you will want to add some pieces of wood around the base of the chair to hold your pot edges. I used a couple pieces of the wood from the seat and nailed them on both sides of the seat so that the pot could rest on them.
• Add garden soil to your pot and plant your flowers.
• Put the pot in the cavity of your chair.
• Enjoy your adorable chair planter!

More Potted Chair Inspiration

Here are a few other chair planters to give you inspiration! I hope you score your neighborhood or your Facebook marketplace for free chair to give new life to in your yard!

DIY Succulent Chair Planter at Garden Therapy

How fun is this succulent chair? It would be so cute inside too!

Potted Chair with Herbs (source unknown)

Wouldn’t this be perfect to place right outside of your kitchen? I love the idea of planting herbs! It’s a perfect idea if you have a smaller yard or apartment.

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Which project do you want to make first?

xoxo

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I recently posted some home decor ideas using Radiant Orchid. When I originally saw the color of the year, I didn’t think I could incorporate it into my home’s decor. It seemed a little too vibrant. But after doing some research I thought it might work. Especially for Spring. And I loved the idea of incorporating the bright purple color with the soothing color of succulents. The greens against the contrast of the purple seemed so pretty to me. So I thought it would be fun to make a DIY wooden succulent planter and paint it Radiant Orchid.   Here’s how simple it is to make: You’ll need:

• 3 of the 3/8 x 6 x 36 craft wood pieces — in my Lowe’s, they’re stored horizontally underneath the molding. Be sure to choose nice, straight pieces. (See left image below)
• 1 package of #6 x 3/4″ “Pro Crafter” screws (See center image below)
• Saw, drill and screwdriver
• Sander
• Wood fill if you want to fill in the screw holes
• Paint (you can buy little samples of the Valspar Pantone Orchid color of the year, perfect for this project)

Note: you could do this project with small nails to attach the wood. However, I first tried using nails to attach the wood and I found that it was even easier to split the wood with nails and they didn’t feel secure, so I used the screws. You may also consider using wood glue on each joint. 1. Use your saw to carefully line up all three pieces of wood and trim off one end — removing the rough, mill-cut end. (See the right picture above) 2. Measure 24″ — or however long you want your planter to be — and mark it on the wood. (See picture at left above)
3. Cut the boards to the 24″ length: I cut all three pieces at once. (See picture in the center above.)
4. Lay one of the boards perpendicular on the sides of two of the others and mark a board’s width light pencil mark along three sides — the two shorter sides (ends) and one of the long ends. (See right picture above.) Why? You’re going to make drill marks, so you need to know where to make those marks so they’ll go into the adjacent boards, like this: You can measure them so they’re consistent, or just guess well. Make these marks on each end and along the bottom. I did three on each end and about five along the bottom. You are only marking two boards and leaving one unmarked. 5. Now, use a small drill bit — I used a 1/8″ one — to drill through the boards in each place you marked. You are only drilling two of the three boards.
6. Use a chamfer bit or a larger drill bit and good judgment to drill a hole to countersink the heads. I didn’t have my chamfer bit handy so I used a 1/4″ drill bit to make a space for the screw heads to sink into the wood. Be sure to drill the countersink/chamfer holes on the opposite side of where you made the pencil marks on the two boards — then the pencil marks will be on the inside of your box.
7. Line up the two boards and the bottom board — the one you left unmarked and undrilled — and screw them together loosely.
8. Now, measure the remaining ends — they should be the same measurement, but they may be slightly different if your boards are not perfectly straight — and cut two end pieces from the wood remaining.
9. Slide the end pieces in and screw them on (see right image above). 10. Tighten all screws and you’re done! Tip: Be careful putting in the screws. Because your screws are so close to the ends and sides of this wood, it’s easy to split the wood (see center image above). That’s why we pre-drilled both the screw holes and the countersink/chamfer holes.
11. Now you can use wood filler to cover the screw holes if you like, and paint it whatever color you like! I used Pantone’s Radiant Orchid for my planter. I sanded down the edges and added a little stain too.
12. And to make sure the wood didn’t get damaged by water, I kept the succulents in their pots and lined the bottom of the planter with a plastic garbage bag to keep water off of the wood. I camouflaged the pots by adding a layer of moss on top of the planter.

What Spring project are YOU excited to make for YOUR home??

Let me know in the comments!! 

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How might you use the color of the year?

xoxo

Thanks to Lowe’s for providing materials for this post; the opinions and content are mine. See my disclosures.

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