Looking to give your terra cotta pots an aged finish without having to wait for it to naturally happen? This video tutorial will teach you.
Terra Cotta Planters & Pots created by the best craftsmen in Europe. We stock Italian, Anduze, and Greek pottery as well as Antique & Vintage Terracotta.
Learn how to age your terra-cotta pots quickly. These six easy techniques help pots undergo a transformation in weeks—if not sooner.
Want to make your new planter look old? Here are three ways to quickly and easily age a terra cotta pot!
Looking for quick and fun crafts? Here are 40 clay pot crafts that you can make today! From indoor decor to outdoor planters and more!
I love vintage garden pots but they are hard to find and often expensive. Wait until you see how I made my new terra cotta pots look old.
This is a guide about saving money on terra cotta pots. Terra cotta flower pots are popular for gardening and craft projects. Shopping around can often help get a better price.
Mediterranean gardens are perfect for regions where the sun is hot and water is scarce, but they adapt beautifully to more temperate climates too.
Make your container garden look well-established with old terracotta pots.
Terra Cotta pots are wonderful for houseplants, garden pots or for starting cuttings. Come and see how I use them and why I love them!
Our DIY Faux Aged Terra Cotta Pots can be made in minutes, and they can be used with both fake and real plants!
Make your container garden look well-established with old terracotta pots.
Last year's terra cotta pots look great. So do last century's. The problem can be new ones—virgin terra cotta can look so, well, orange. Your herbs deserve
Coffee-Stained Terra Cotta. Turn newly purchased pots into earthy, organic vessels with aged patinas. Easy DIY!
This series features great tutorials that I've found that I think you would find useful! This weeks featured project is a DIY Small Tabletop Fountain
Hand-sculpted and painted with white, this terra cotta pot is completely handmade, which makes them all unique.
I got a bit angry when I searched "Vintage Terra-Cotta Pot"and I saw the price. So expensive..cue DIY lightbulb. DIY Terra-Cotta pots!
Limited Edition handmade terra-cotta planter. Show off your plant collection in this beautiful low-fire, earthenware clay with striking red tones. The green just vibrates against this beautiful clay and your plants will thank you. Great for indoor or outdoor plants, all have drainage hole.Each planter sold separately, Dimensions in centimetres and are approximate due to the nature of the handmade.Avoid thermal shock (ie. very hot to very cold)GIFT WRAPPING HERE
Nothing breathes new life into a room as quickly and easily as a new plant baby. The best part? There are plenty of budget-friendly ways to grow new plants, including picking up plant cuttings from a friend or growing your own plants from seed. But if you’re a seasoned plant parent, you already know that finding planters to house your new fronds that also match your decor can be the most expensive aspect of the journey.
Aged terra cotta pots have a beauty all their own. Even if you don’t have a green thumb, these pots are beautiful accents for silk or artificial plants or even storage around the house or garden. But how do you get that beautiful mossy, aged look without waiting decades? This fun DIY terra cotta pot project tea
Terra Cotta Pot people are so cute and adorable and easy to make, believe it or not. They are a wonderful addition to any type of garden.
If you wander into the garden section at any store, inevitably, you’ll be met by a wall of orange pots – the terracotta section. If you’re new to gardening in general or just terracotta pots,
I was on the look out for some Valentine decor when I spotted this Topiary from IKEA. Right away my wheels started turning. I knew I could probably bend the round wire shape into a heart with just the right touch. The Topiary was listed for $8.99, I grabbed it and I thought what do I have to lose. To turn the Topiary into a heart took 2 people. One person grabbing onto the top center part of the wire with pliers, and the other person squeezing the sides of the Topiary in, while the person with the pliers pulls down. Once you have the heart shape, you can tweak it by continuing to bend the wires to make it just perfect. This was simple and quick, but whenever I think of Ivy plants or Topiaries, I imaging those vintage, aged, weathered, chippy Terra Cotta Pots. The kind you might find sitting on a window seal or potting shed in some dreamy European City. To get this look I headed to Pinterest and started researching different Pins. There are plenty of Pinterest Hacks, but 4 stood out to me as some what easy to pull off. The first is a watered down/ dry brush technique I found here. On a side note let me mention how much I love Mrs. Craftberry Bush's Blog. I adore her!! Here is a picture of what hers looked like After following her instructions this is how mine turned out. The next Pin I followed used a textured Spray paint technique found here. After spraying the entire pot with the spray paint you sand off bits of the spray paint to give it a distressed look. Once this step was complete I took black and green craft paint, watered them down with a little bit of water and dry brushed them along the base of the pot. Once the craft paint was dry, I dry brushed a touch of white paint around the entire pot to make it all blend together perfectly. Here is how this pinners pot looked... and here is mine. The next pin I followed was back to one of my favorite bloggers: Mrs Craftberry Bush this was her take again on an antique Terra Cotta pot transformation. Using plaster of paris ( I found mine at Walmart), you mix it according to the package directions and then tint it with a few drops of crafts paint. Next you appy it all over the Terra Cotta pots. It's been a while since I've worked with plaster of paris, but mine set up so quickly that by the time my pot was covered, it looked a little more like your child's first Jr. High art project in ceramics or pottery (a mysterious blob). I thought this was going to be a total fail, until I took a rough sanding sponge and started knocking the plaster of paris off the pot while it was still drying. This actually turned out to give the Terra Cotta pots a great unique texture. After the plaster of paris had dried completely, I blended the same craft paints as before (black and green) and stippled them randomly onto the pot. Then finished it off by lightly sanding with the sanding sponge to make it all blend. Here is Mrs. Craftberry Bush's antiqued pot Here is my take on the plaster of paris technique The final idea I used was actually mine. After I used the plaster of paris technique, I wondered if using drywall spackling paste would work too. My first step was to take a butter knife and slather on the dry wall paste in random spots all over the Terra Cotta pot. Then while it's still wet, take a dry paint brush and stipple the dry wall compound to give it a unique texture. I let it dry for a little while, but before it had firmly set up I took a dry paper towel and smooshed the stipple mark down in certain places to give it even more texture. Once it was dry I took the same craft paints as above (green and black) and stippled them in a random fashion all over the pot. Finally I finished it off with a light sanding to blend it all together. Here is the finished project. Here is a peek at the different aging techniques for the Terra Cotta pots with the cute Heart Topiary. I love all the different looks and textures. My favorite technique would be the dry wall spackling paste one. Thanks to Studio 5 for Hosting "West Creek Design" in another fun segment.
Make your container garden look well-established with old terracotta pots.
Do you love the look of vintage distressed terra cotta clay pots? Learn how to age terra cotta pots in 5 easy steps with paint.
Come and see how I created an aged concrete finish on terra cotta pots I found thrifting! Hope your week has been great so far! :) We have
Do you love the look of vintage distressed terra cotta clay pots? Learn how to age terra cotta pots in 5 easy steps with paint.
Large pots are delight in a garden. Pots are perhaps the purest expression of planting design. Composing a pot is like a chef creating a sa...
A mid-sized hand thrown terra cotta vessel with iridescent finish. Classic amphora shape.
If you've ever bought terra cotta pots and they seemed too pristine, there is a simple process for "aging" them and achieving that sweet patina many of us insist upon. I've heard of several "recipes" for mellowing the clay, but this one is simple. Take a piece of sandpaper and lightly scuff the pot - not all over, but here and there. Soak it in water for a few minutes. (While you scuff the next ones.) Place them in a container and pour buttermilk or yogurt over them. Make sure you smear them up well. Cover the whole smelly mess and place it outside for a few days. The pots will soak up the acidophilus and it will grow in the nice moist clay. Voila: aged pots!
Planters help you have plants and foliage in areas where there wouldn't be any otherwise. They are quite under-rated and under utilized in my opinion since foliage and plants improve any setting, indoors or out. Image from brookegiannetti.typepad.com
This is a super easy way to add a pretty grapic to your terra cotta flower pots! Great for indoor use and the perfect little gift for someone special~ #frenchco…
Want to make your new planter look old? Here are three ways to quickly and easily age a terra cotta pot!
