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Another Painted Pot

17 years ago

Found this hose pot at TS last week for $7 and of course, had to paint it, lol. I don't care to have one more way to tie my hose in knots, so it's planted. Linda


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Comments (22)

  • 17 years ago

    That turned out so pretty! Looks great planted. You're tempting me to dump my hose out of mine, LOL.

    hugs, Karen

  • 17 years ago

    Love the design on that! It looks beautiful with the succulents. TFS!

  • 17 years ago

    That looks WONDERFUL... Love the way you came back w/ the black to highlight the texture of it... it's just soooo succulent..LOL....Judy

  • 17 years ago

    GAWJUS!!!!! The succs look great with that color - makes 'em POP!

  • 17 years ago

    Looks wonderful with the succulents.
    kathy

  • 17 years ago

    Love the red with distressed black. Hmmm $7, seen ones like these in stores for $25,$30. Great job.

  • 17 years ago

    Beautiful!!!!

  • 17 years ago

    AHHHHHH-CHAAAAA-CHAAAAA RED. My favorite color!!!!! Beautiful.

  • 17 years ago

    Another beauty! Love it! Jeanne S.

  • 17 years ago

    That works perfect with your succulent collection! Great re do on the pot!!!!

    CiNdEeS' GaRdEn

  • 17 years ago

    now that is what I call a great redo. And those are my
    favorite plants.

  • 17 years ago

    what a great looking pot!

  • 17 years ago

    What a great job you did on this. What did you use to paint the highlights? I seem to get some of the accent paint into the crevices, which I don't want to so.

  • 17 years ago

    Awesome!

  • 17 years ago

    Thank you all for the nice comments. I wire brush these pots. This one was already painted white, and I went over it with Exterior primer (Zinsser brand-available at any hardware store). I brush, roll or smush the exterior red latex paint all over it, whatever gets it into all the grooves. The paint dries quickly, but I wait a few hours to be sure. I use a pretty dry brush, and lightly go over it with a dark blue exterior paint, just to hit the high spots to make the pattern show. If it's brushed on in light coats, the blue shows up better. If you hit the low spots and don't like how it looks, just go over them again with the red, (or any color).

    The inside was sprayed with a can of rubberized car undercoating from the auto parts store, so the water doesn't soak through and lift the outside paint. I think there's a product to coat the inside of pots, but this stuff is very quick and there's no cleanup (unless you get it all over yourself, lol). Wait about a day to plant in it.

    It's best to not let these pots sit in water because the paint may come off. I put them on a tile, brick, stove burner grate or anything to keep them from staying wet. Linda

  • 17 years ago

    OOlala, another beautiful addition to Linda's garden!! Going to have to get a can of red paint as that makes the plants look great!!! Eye popping project!! I knew those hose things were good for something, I passed on 1 a few weeks ago. Big mistake!! I want 1 now!! Jan

  • 17 years ago

    Gorgeous!!

  • 16 years ago

    I love it!!

  • 16 years ago

    What a beaut! Very nicely done!
    See, there is a lot more we can do with our old pots (or hose pots lol) than I thought!

    Nice!
    Cathy

  • 16 years ago

    That is beautiful!! the red really makes the plants POP!

  • 15 years ago

    this is stunning but so much is your succulent plantings .. wonderful job.. excellent color choice

  • 15 years ago

    Really pretty. Red's my favorite color too, and I like the way the color ties in with the red leaves of two of the succulents. Thanks for the directions of how you did it. I wouldn't have thought of coating the interior to waterproof it.

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