Potted: Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers

by Annette Goliti Gutierrez, Mary Gray

Overview

Hand-made style for outdoor living
 
Outdoor style often comes at a high price, but it doesn’t have to! This lushly designed guide empowers you to create your own show-stopping containers made from everyday materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, terracotta, rope, driftwood, and fabric. The 23 step-by-step projects are affordable, and most importantly, gorgeous. They include new spins on old favorites, like the cinderblock garden and hanging planters made from enamelware bowls, along with never-before-seen ideas like a chimney flue planter and wall planters made from paint cans. Packed with color photographs and simple instruction, Potted will help you turn your outdoor space into a stylish oasis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781604698084
Publisher:	Timber Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/13/2017
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	229
File size:	83 MB
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About the Author

Annette Goliti Gutierrez was a screenwriter and former ad agency producer who procrastinated by remodeling houses when she met and Mary Gray many years ago. With no retail experience, they bought a run-down pottery store which they built into a gardening destination and brand. Gutierrez runs the marketing and design work for Potted. She writes the Potted blog and contributes to Sunset Magazine’s blog and many print publications. Potted has been featured in the LA Times, Sunset Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine Best Of, California Home and Design, Country Living, Gardenista, Apartment Therapy, Design Sponge, Garden Design, and The Huffington Post.
Mary Gray was a set decorator and art director when she met Annette Goliti Gutierrez many years ago. With no retail experience, they bought a run-down pottery store which they built into a gardening destination and brand. Gray is the head of all things visual at Potted, creating compelling installations and curating the diverse objects used as planters. Potted has been featured in the LA Times, Sunset Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine Best Of, California Home and Design, Country Living, Gardenista, Apartment Therapy, Design Sponge, Garden Design, and The Huffington Post.

Read an Excerpt

Preface
Whether you are a seasoned homeowner or are just starting out with your first garden patio, outdoor planters are seductive and sultry as they lure you in with their rich colors and clean lines. You can hardly wait to add them to your garden—until you see the price tag, which can be out of reach for many budgets. Big-box stores offer better bargains but fewer choices, and many of us are turned off by the idea of having the same thing as everyone else. We want unique products that make a statement. This book will help you boldly go where no planter has gone before by empowering you to create show-stopping containers.

We have owned Potted, a Los Angeles–based outdoor lifestyle brand, for more than a decade. As the creative forces behind the brand, we are always looking for unusual and interesting products geared toward outdoor living to excite and inspire our customers. It’s one of the reasons we are a successful business and why many people choose us over the big chain stores. And while we support local artists and think nothing of traveling to find compelling products, what sets us apart are our Potted designs—garden pavers, tile tables, and especially pots (we are called Potted, after all).

So what does this mean for you? Well, our love of design compelled us to write this book, which is filled with inspirational and original ideas to help you make your own planters from everyday materials.

Beyond being affordable, we wanted to create projects that are gorgeous and accessible. You do not need a workshop or countless tools at your disposal to build these planters. We have a bit more expertise with fabrication than the average person, and this knowledge has been invaluable in working out how these projects assemble and whether they are feasible. When coming up with possible ideas, we asked ourselves three questions: is it affordable, are the materials easy to find, and could we do it on our own? If the answer to any of these questions was no, we threw out the idea. Finally, the most important consideration was that the finished product had to look fabulous.

We hope you will find ideas in this book that will excite and energize you to turn your own garden into a Potted oasis. There is something for everyone, from entryway planters crafted from garbage cans to hanging planters made with kitchenware. We have come up with designs we have never seen, and we offer a different spin on some familiar favorites. You can either follow our instructions exactly or, for even more fun, customize them to suit your own personality. And we expect Pinterest and Instagram to virtually explode with all your creations. We can’t wait to see them. #pottedstylediy

Table of Contents

Preface 9

Do It Yourself Basics: Thinking Creatively About Everyday Materials 10

Concrete 17

The Modern Rectangle 19

Cinderblock Candle Wall 27

Tiled Cinderblock Planter 35

Treading the Way 45

Cement Tile Custom Container 53

Plastics 61

Totally Tubular PVC Planter 63

That's a Wrap 71

Roof Vent Wall Pouch 79

Divide and Plant 87

Trash Chic 97

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The Gables $

Stock Tank Water Garden $

Hanging Around With Cans $

Flying Saucer Planters $

Kitchenware Confidential $

Front and Center $

Terra-Cotta 153

Marbleized Masterpieces 155

Chim-Chim Cher-ee Flue Planter 163

Organic Materials $

Decoupage Goes Outdoors $

Roped In $

Catch My Drift $

Fabric Bucket $

Rustic Wood Hanging Planter $

Metric Conversions 214

Acknowledgments 216

Further Reading 218

Resources 219

Photo Credits 221

Index 222

Editorial Reviews

The pages of this hardworking book are chock full of ideas, with masterful instructions that make aspirational projects totally within reach.”—Johanna Silver, Garden Editor at Sunset and author of The Bold Dry Garden

“If you want a weekend project, these fun and colorful designs add oomph to any outdoor space!” —Baylor Chapman, author of The Plant Recipe Book
 
“With imaginative 'doable' projects, detailed instructions and inspiring lifestyle shots, your house, porch, yard is sure to become more colorful and plantastic with Annette and Mary's creative guidance.” —Justina Blakeney, thejungalow.com

“Solid, with clear illustrations and practical tips. . . . A good addition for those looking for unusual container designs.” —Library Journal

“A winning how-to.” —Booklist

“What’s that, you say? A renowned garden designer is not within your budget? No problem! Because this book contains tons of ideas for making your own hip garden containers from ordinary materials including driftwood, rope and enamel bowls.” —Apartment Therapy

“A must-have book.” —The Jungalow 

“Give your plants a beautiful place to grow in custom planters and pots. The book Potted features 23 step-by-step projects to beautify your outdoor living space.” —Better Homes and Gardens

“In this colorful and well-illustrated paperback, Annette and Mary share 23 original, DIY-able planters that they dreamed up and show how to create them from readily available materials. . . . The book is sure to give you some fun ideas for dressing up your patio, porch, or living room.” —Digging

“With its lineup of garden vessels that go way beyond terracotta, Los Angeles’s Potted has long been one of our favorite shops in the West. Now, owners Annette Goliti Gutierrez and Mary Gray have brought their eye for design to a series of DIY projects with their new book.” —Sunset

“The depth of explanation for each project is impressive, taking a ‘recipe book’ approach of going through each project step-by-step and not assuming that you know how to cut corners. . . . this is a good starting point for making your patio quirky by filling it with unusual containers rather than settling for the same old ones.” —The English Garden

“Just as a simple seed can grow to be a pretty plant, this well-illustrated book shows, with the right mix of fun and outside-the-box thinking, even ordinary objects can become exceptional pots.” —Cary Magazine

“To say I was excitedly anticipating holding it [Potted] in my hands is an understatement.” —The Danger Garden

“Shows a variety of sometimes unlikely objects undergoing transformation.” —The Irish Garden​

From the Publisher

06/01/2017
Container gardening can be more colorful with interesting DIY containers. In their first book, Gutierrez and Gary replicate some of the gardening pieces found in their Los Angeles garden shop, Potted. Projects include boxes made of concrete board and cinder blocks, and the use of colored tiles and incorporation of hardware and building materials. The instruction is solid, with clear illustrations and practical tips. There are some unique ideas, such as roof-vent planters and use of concrete board. However, there is not a consistent style, and a few of the designs are just surface treatments. VERDICT A good addition for those looking for unusual container designs.

Library Journal