It's no lie that I love painting plant pots and, well, anything around my house. I absolute love giving something my own style and my own voice. It's a quick project and it's really straight forward to do. The hardest part, as always, is figuring out the design you want.
I put together a straight forward, easy to use guide to painting your plant pots for indoor use, in dry areas. This process is definitely not designed for pots intended to be used for plants.
Step 1:
- Collect your supplies
You'll need:
- Plant pots - I used 2 terracotta pots
- Acrylic paint - I used 5 colours in total (teal, purple, antique white, silver, black)
- Paint brushes
- Water to keep your brushes nice and clean
- A little imagination
Step 2
- Paint your plant pots in the base colour, remember to do the bottoms.
- Leave them to dry properly
Step 3
- Turn the plant pots around and paint the inside a bright colour
- You can skip this step if you want it to remain the original colour
- Alternatively, the inside would look just as fab all one colour, in this case it'd be antique white.
Step 4
- Paint the rims of the plant pot because this is the one you likely missed when painting it all one colour.
Step 5
- Below the lip of the pot, paint a contrasting colour line
- The straighter the better but it's ok if it's a bit wobbly
Step 6
Paint your patterns on the outside- If you're feeling ambitious you could always add pattern to the inside.
Step 7
- Add black detail around your patterns to define them further
- I added a little silver shapes that contrasted against the main pattern to make them a little more fabulous
I love how these turned out. Mainly because I love the idea of mini containers holding ornaments littered around the house. Adorable.
These do take a little time to get right and you will need to be comfortable with a paintbrush to get results you're happy with but they're worth the time and effort.
If you don't have time for this but love them as much as I do then you can always pop over to the Etsy shop and buy them to be delivered directly to your house.
What do you think? If you tried this I'd love to see the links to it below!
