The article will tell you how to make a potfor flowers with their own hands, so that it corresponds to the overall design decision of the home. In addition, the reader learns how to make pots from improvised means, without spending money, but, on the contrary, using end-of-life items.
We make a pot for flowers with our own hands from metal dishes
Exhausted buckets, watering cans, pans andTeapots can be an excellent source material for creating flower pots. The main condition for these tanks is the presence in their bottom of the holes for the exit of excessive moisture. Therefore, immediately, you should drill or punch a few holes with a large nail from below in a bucket or in a saucepan. Then comes the turn of the design work. You can use the usual colors, painting the future pot to your liking. And you can use old CDs, breaking them into pieces about 3 centimeters in size. Having pasted them on top of the vessel, you can create an amazing pot design. You can use for decoupage and other options, similar to those that decorate bottles, caskets and other interior items.
A pot of phonograph records
From old records for the player can alsoget the original flower pot. It's quite easy to make it with your own hands. By the way, a hole in this pot will no longer need to be done. Since it is possible to make a flower pot from a plate by heating the plastic, the craftsman will need a metal cover for preserving vegetables in jars, a nail and a hook with a long handle. In the lid, make a hole in advance, in which the hook can enter. The lid is applied to the plate in such a way that the holes coincide. On the side of the lid, near the hole, a nail is applied along the plane, a hook is inserted into the hole, which is picked up by a nail. Now the plate is held by this device in a position parallel to the ground level. It is necessary to heat the plate over an electric stove or gas. It will lose its shape, its edges will hang beautiful folds down, just as a dense hard matter hangs around. After the desired result is achieved, the heating of the plate is stopped. Now it remains only to cover the flower pot, created by hand from the records, with paints. You can also create irregularities with gypsum, putty, clay, or clay.
Large flowerpots
Large plants require a large containersize. Buy a large pot in the store is not always obtained: it is not suitable for sale, it is inconvenient to transport. Therefore, the best option is to create this pot yourself. There are several options for making large pots:
1. Use as a pot old village large cast iron, in which our ancestors cooked food in the stove. They can be painted very beautifully, turning them into unique vessels for flowers.
2.You can use as a large pot a composite container of several small ones. It is done this way: in the two identical pots cut out the bottoms, connect them to those places where the cutouts are made, a large flat plate is glued (or installed) at the bottom - here and a large tall pot is ready, extremely convenient for a palm, lemon or other large plant.
