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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Rope Pot DIY...

We have recently moved into a new house! This house, while far better/prettier/cooler than our old house, was built in 1979 and needs some fine tuning. No part of the house is outdated, it's just that the previous owners lived here for 15 years, with three boys, so it just needs to be freshened up mostly with paint and minor landscaping.

They left behind a lot of stuff in the front and backyard. Bird feeders, garden ornaments, and lots of pots. Some of the pots are really nice, and some are old and plastic. I don't have a "before" picture, but I took one of the plastic pots and covered it with 3/8 50ft twisted sisal rope from Lowe's. This pot would have been something I would thrown in the trash without a second thought, but I am glad I kept it to give it a new life!


So really, all I did was get some hot glue, start at the bottom, and wrap the rope around. I put glue on the end of the rope to keep it from fraying, and they just put glue on the pot and on the rope six inches at a time. This pot ended up using two packages of rope. When I ran out of the first one, I just put the new rope end to end and kept wrapping. You can see in the picture that the rope isn't perfectly smooth and even allover, but no one driving by the house is ever going to notice that!

You could easily go get a new, cheap pot if you want to give this a try! I wouldn't recommend using a clay or ceramic pot, just because it's heavy and will be harder to work with. Also, be sure to pay attention to the shape of the pot and make sure it makes sense for rope wrapping. 

If I was going to take this one step further, I think I would paint the pot white like 60% up from the bottom to make it slightly more modern. But, I think I will practice restraint on this one and just let it be natural for now!

Love,
Lauren