Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Cheap Terracotta Pots Re-Do


We needed two new planters for our living room and I didn't have the money for a lot of the pots I saw that I liked. So we found the terracotta pots in the size we wanted and they were like $10 each.  So we grabbed those, some spray paint and some glaze.  Then I thought they needed a little extra something, so I took a stamp I had already and some acrylic paint that I had laying around and ta-da!


Here are the pots.  We did two of the smaller size in Antique White and a large one in Colonial Red. All the paint we chose was Rust-Oluem.  We ended up using two cans of the Antique White but just one Red.  And two cans of the glaze.  But the large pot took a lot, so if you're doing just smaller pots, I imagine one can of glaze would be enough.


We glazed the inside first.
 

Then we did 3 coats of paint on each pot and base and three coats of glaze on each pot.  I did stamp the design and then go over it better with a small paintbrush that I stole from my kiddo's.  I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out and we might have spent $60 total for all three pots, bases, paint and glaze.
We got all our supplies at Home Depot