How to Turn a Wood Chair into a Garden Planter

This wood chair turned garden planter is a wonderful craft project to make in pairs. If you make two of these wood chairs into garden planter, then you can place one on either side of your front door!

This is a fun craft project and a great way to use up old dining room chairs that have seen better days. You can also use inexpensive wood chairs from your local Goodwill. If you have a set of old wood chairs from when you were young and first furnishing your home, then use those! You will feel sentimental every time you walk past your vintage chair garen planters into yoru home!

To Turn a Vintage Chair Into a Garden Flower Pot You Will Need:

1 Wood chair

Jig saw

Platic flower pot

Potting soil

Flowers

The first step is to go ahead and set your plastic flower pot in the chair seat. You want the flower pot to be upside down when you do this. Use a pencil to trace around the cirle.

Now, one other thing to keep in mind when building this vinage garden planter is you will need a plastic flower pot that has a nice lip at the top. This simple lip will help support the flower pot in the seat of the chair.

Now, insde the circle your trace, about one inch in, trace a smaller circle.

Use your jig saw to cut this circle in the seat of the vintage wood chair out.

You may need to drill a hole with yoru power drill, then slide the blade of the jug saw in and start cutting.

Now, sand the entire chair lightly and paint if needed. You should always prime first. If your vintage chair garden planter will be outside and not under yoru front porch roof, you should definitely use exterior grade paint. I really would anyway, since there will be quite a bit of water touching the chair as it sits outside.

Now, let the paint dry. While the paint is drying you can start filling your flower pot. Add you potting soil and some of your favorite flowers. Ferns are a great idea if you have a shady porch.

You can also use climbing plants like ivy and over time they will climb up the back of the vintage wood chair.

Now, simply place the plastic flower pot in the hole in the chair.

As the flowering plants grow and fill in they will cover the edge of the flower pot, grow up and over the chair and really look great!