What's wrong with having it still look grilly?

I think once the plants start growing and tumbling down the sides it will just look like a planter on legs. Or am I not seeing it right because there's no pic? (hint hint... need eye-candy for quick fix HA!)

I like the look of re-purposed stuff.

Sorry, but it's late here and my brain can't come up with that to do with the grills.

Hi Beck, I think you as the owner tend to see a grill no matter what you have done to it. I'm sure it will look great near your front door. Here is a pic of mine I did this summer. A hint for the grates. The smaller one I used in a planter for drainage. The larger I placed on top of a pot I painted, then place a planter on top of it. I'll see if I have a pic.{{gwi:154785}}{{gwi:188426}} You can't see the grate as it is under the planter.

Katie is the 1 that did it & see how the color she painted it is in the center of the plants, you can see the grate on top of the 2 gold pots if you look carefully under the wooden planter it's there. If you can't see it get a magnifying glass.. Great idea & no runs of muddy water down the gold pots. I like the 2 toned gold pots, look antique! Jan

beck_wi ... I think lindasewandsew also had a thread with an old grill that she curb found or something...it turned out awesome as a "pot!"

Save those grates...they are useful for lots of things...here's where I used one for the ball fountain ...a rubber feeder tub is buried & small pump in it...grate on top of that (ground level) & covered with rocks! I posted this just awhile back:
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If I don't like the solid color of something, I get out a another color of Rusteoleum spray paint & do a little "misting" here & there...sure changes & then it wouldn't be exactly like your front door...just a thought.

katishooked...great ideas in your pics above! TFS! Jeanne S.

You could do a spatterware or spongeware type finish with white paint. If you like those type of dishes.

I posted the bbq photo (link below). The green one, found on the curb on big trash day, is the same as the red one further down the thread. The lid on the red one broke years ago. This particular bbq looks like a big pot.

If you can't post a photo, you may be able to find a photo of a similar one on Google Images, and post the link for us to see what it looks like. They look great either looking like a flower pot or still looking like a bbq. If you don't have a photobucket acct yet, open one (photobucket.com). It's free and once you have it, someone here will tell you how to post pics.

Kati, that is one cute bbq! Can you send it to me, lol? Linda

Here is a link that might be useful: BBQ post

Ok, I did the photobucket account.... wish me luck since this is my first photo posting EVER. (I've been posting/lurking for yeeeears)

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Its not exactly what I pictured, but its still pretty darn cool and I'm happy with it. The best part is I can plant it from the back and dont' have to contend balancing on the hill to do it.
I was laughing as I was putting on the clear coat. My neighbor has learned now to ask "what will it be?" instead of "what are you doing?" LOL
The other neighbor didn't recognize it as a grill at first, so I think my mission was accomplished.

Please excuse the condition of the rest of my garden.. I have a seven month old daughter that occupies what used to be my gardening time. lol
It looks better in person, imo. I'm not the best photographer. lol

Here is a link that might be useful: my new photobucket album

I forgot to add that I need to move the coneflower next to it and I have a blue totem that I'll probably move into this bed.
I may put my glass birdbath out there again... and pray that no one breaks it AGAIN when they try to steal it.

Looks great!!!
I like your teal totem too!

I'm so glad you got around to Photobucket! lol! Love your new "grill." I really liked how lindasewandsew painted hers. It's so glossy, it almost looks like expensive pottery. Your blue one matches the house so nice and really makes the flowers pop. I love your teal totem too! What a great idea to put the "globs" in a clear vase for color. I'll have to remember that idea. Keep those pictures comin'! You are doing just fine at photography :^)

Beck, your BBQ looks great. It's hard to tell that it was anything but a nice flowerpot. Good job!!!

Luna, The red and green barbeques aren't painted. That's how the original coating. They're either pottery or ceramic and came in lots of great colors. I've also seen them in blue and passed up a yellow one (for only $15) at a swap meet because I was too lazy that day to drag it to my car. DUH!! Maybe another color will show up on the next big trash day. Too bad I can't put in a special order for one to appear at the curb, lol. Linda

Beck, you did a good job. Like where you found a home for it. The teal totem is real eye catcher. Glad you got to post some pix.

Kat

Thanks guys, its nice to get compliments on your first picture.
I wanted it to be glossy like Linda's. I guess I thought she painted hers too.
Mine ended up with several coats of a clear gloss and still wasn't as glossy as I wanted.
When I do the top half, I'm going to see if my dh can use his spray gun and give it a clear coat like what's on a car. (shoulda thought of that with the blue one) I have some hens and chicks that are being hidden by an overgrown bush that I thought would be cute in the top since it isn't as deep, but I'm not sure about them surviving winter in it. Nor do I have a stand for it. The blue one just sits on the ground, but the top (thinking white) will be on the deck and will need "legs" of some sort. (however, the tire post has me thinking about a tire rim for the base)
As I was trying to take pictures I realized that there are several of my pieces that need some attention... I guess its been a while since I've done anything with my "treasures".

Last year my son gave me his old portable fire pit thingy that had rusted. I planted it with red, orange and yellow celosia (sp). It is an annual with plume like blossoms. Looked like fire and got many wonderful comments.

Thank you all for sharing your photos. So inspiring.

I'm resurecting my own thread to give an update. When I planted this in the fall, I threw in some discount plants from Wally World just to get some color in it.
They survived the winter, and are popping up nicely. I was worried that since it was a pot and not protected by the warmth of the ground, that they would not survive.
I don't think the mums made it, but I'm ok with that... the sedums are taking off and grew an inch overnight.

The dh threw his old one away the other day.. he got a new fancy gas grill last year and decided he didn't need the weber anymore. By the time I got home, it was already gone from our curb.... sigh.......The man will never learn.

I still have the top of this one in the garage--- but another planter will have to wait. My daughter seems to think planters are her own personal sand boxes.

Wow what a great thread right before yard sale season.
I went to the Boston Flower show last Friday, and at a workshop a man said that one of the reasons that plants in tubs don't grow as large as he remembers from the past is so many large planters are made out of molded plastic. Clay pots and wood tubs let air in from the sides which meant they dry out quicker but the plants like the air. Seeing Linda's plastic mesh planters made me think of that. So I'm wondering, how do we get more air into these planters? I may drill some small holes in my faux rusty metal plastic planters and cover the hole on the inside with landscape fabric to see if they do better. Do the grill planters heat up in te sun?
Kathy

Glad your BBQ pot is filling up again! Enjoy your little daughter, they grow up way too fast!! I think this year she needs a little garden too. Someplace she can dig & rake. a pot of something that grows fast & is pretty so she can see how a seed grows into something wonderful or if you have room out back a melon plant,kids are amazed at how fast they grow & it's wonderful to "eat" the results at end of summer. DD planted a pumpkin & the kids sat on it, it was really big. Jan

Your blue planter looks great. It doesn't look like a BBQ grill at all. A planter that size would have cost a fortune. I love that your neighbor is now asking what something is going to be.

Babies take a lot of time for sure....I like it filled with the flowers. But in looking at your album, I think I would move the odd pics to another album....especially a gun laying on a rug next to your babies toy. Not a good thing

That would be my husbands pics.. .he didn't tell me he added them to my Photobucket.
If I move them it breaks his links on his websites.

sorry about that.