I love creating items for the home and garden using scrap or recycled materials. If I see something I like at the garden centres or online then I find a way to make something similar with as little cost as possible - preferably no cost at all.
My guest post for Kaysi today is all about showing you exactly how I created this lovely bench planter from scrap wood, in just a couple of days and making it up as I went along,
This planter with built in seat was amazingly simple to build and can easily be completed over a weekend.
With just a few adjustments you can adapt it to be able to use whatever scrap wood you have laying about or can scrounge. As it happened for me my husband saved a load of lengths of 5"x2" from a wood workshop he demolished. I'd been wondering what I could make with the wood and that's when I happened upon this idea, plus I still have enough lengths left to build a picnic table for the garden and maybe even an Adirondack chair as well (tutorial on my blog soon).
To start with you need to collect all your tools and materials. I tend not to do this and always regret it later on when I'm hunting around looking for what I need and usually find I don't have it.
You'll need:
- Wood. I didn't calculate what I needed and never work from plans but it's obviously going to be more convenient to measure beforehand. You'll need wood for the main construction and the seat, battens for a base ledge, slats to create the base and wood to make the top rim.
- Screws/nails.
- Tape measure & pencil
- Hand saw or Cross cutter (electric all the way for me).
- Dewalt drill or similar.
- Plastic if you want to line the planter.
- Fence paint or exterior varnish.
Please say Hi to Kaysi and hopefully enjoy the tutorial enough to maybe have a go at something similar yourself!
Enjoy!
Nice tutorial. I went to Kaysi's blog and read the whole thing. I want to see how to make the Adirondack chair so i am following you on linky. Thanks, Linda
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