You Know How I Roll. . . If I Cant Find It, I’ll Probably Just Make It!

I spent months seeking perfect porch planters. I needed something kinda tall. My front door is extra tall, so many of the planters I test drove were completely dwarfed by the door.

I also wanted something unique. I’d prefer that my porch not look like every porch I see on Pinterest and Instagram.

I was day dreaming of tall planters with a curvy shape. Something that wasn’t too traditional or too modern. Kinda like Mama Bear in Goldilocks, not too much, not too little, but that “just right” sweet spot somewhere in the middle.

I wanted them to have a certain kind of elegance to them, an understated gradure. I was willing to pay a pretty price for them. But even that didn’t cause them to materialize on Google Search.

Thinking Outside the Pot

Then one day as I was walking the local hardware store planter isle for the upteeth time, hoping to magically discover something I’d missed before. . . I had an epiphany!

A new possibility I hadn’t considered before. What if I took two rather ordinary pots and put them together to make one big beautiful extraordinary “Estate Planter?”

The answer to all my porch pot dreams! And so ridiculously easy to pull off!

What I Bought

I bought two square planters and two urn shaped planters that were made from the same black material. I also decided to buy 8 hammered black drawer knobs to create finials in the four corners of the base.

Then I just stacked the urn shaped pots on top of the upside down square pots.

Flipping the square pots upside down, I drilled holes in all for corners of each pot. Then I screwed a knob into each corner using a threaded nut to secure them.

Our neighborhood is perched on the side of a mountain. Our yard is a wind tunnel. Which means furniture, wreaths, door mats and flower pots are guaranteed to blow off the porch and tumble down the street at any ol’ random time! For this reason I filled the bottom half of the upper urn pots with rocks. This way they’ll stay put on even the windiest of days.

A Little Unnecessary But Handy Extra

Because the urn pots I used are quite tall, instead of filling the whole thing up with rocks and dirt, I opted to find a smaller pot that fits nicely into the top of the pot. This makes it easier for me to change out the plants for different seasons and holidays.

Watch the Video Tutorial for how I created my Estate Planters