DIY Rustic Wood Planter

To make this DIY rustic wood planter was super easy with basically no carpentry skills required. Here are the details…

I’m calling it a rustic wood planter, but in reality it’s a planter cover. I have a plastic planter inside it.

This chunky board came from the little brick cottage we were renovating. It was an exterior wall stud with lath and plaster, that’s why it has those cool white stripes on it. They just don’t build studs like this anymore, really, it’s a true 6” wide board, which happens to be the perfect height for this planter box.

(You can read more about all the projects of that little brick cottage HERE)

To connect the boards together I used 3” right angle brackets I had in the junk drawer. But I didn’t want the shiny finish so to create an old finish look on them I first I layered paint on the brackets. HERE is a link some that are already black!

After purchasing and carefully measuring the length and width of the plastic planter, I cut the board into the 4 pieces needed for this cover.

HERE is a link for a plastic planter similar.

Then it was just a matter of screwing the angle irons on to hold it together.

It has a very rustic quality to it for sure. And primitive… perfect project for me, (a finished carpenter, I am not!).

Guess what I planted in this planter for the dining room table?!

It’s nearly spring, but Wisconsin is a bit slower to accept that, so the sight of green grass is a welcome right about now. It’s also a really fun part of a spring centerpiece!

Check out THIS POST for my tips to successfully grow green grass inside!

Here’s a peek at the finished project with the grass growing in it:

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