Planters

One more project down!! I am so excited cause these turned out really cute. Plus they make my bench not look so lonely. I will not lie, these things were a pain in the BUTT! We searched on-line for plans and couldn't find anything, instead we found a site that you could buy the same planters for $150.00, and they were vinyl! I wasn't going to pay 150 per planter for a piece of vinyl that the Utah wind would destroy. BIG waste of money. We decided to make some. Like I said these were not very easy. The hardest part was the angle. Had we made them straight they would have been much easier. We liked the the look of the angle though, so chose that path. With the wood we bought and the nails and screws this project ended up being about $40.00 for both planters! AND THEY ARE WOOD!! These puppies stand about 3ft tall and about 1 1/2 ft wide at the top. HUGE!!!

These were a screen shot of the vinyl ones I found that inspired our minds.

 before we stained them.

 black and coated.

The flowers I added in them. Right now they are little, but hopefully they will grow bigger before I end up killing them. :)

My next project I am thinking about is painting the mailbox, and fixing the house numbers. I haven't decided what colors or anything like that. It needs to be updated. That might be more of a winter project though.