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DIY Nordic-style garden flower pots from scrap iron barrels

DIY Nordic-style garden flower pots from scrap iron barrels

DIY Nordic-style garden flowerpots from old iron buckets. If you have any broken iron buckets for water at home in the future, don’t throw them away. You can reuse them and turn waste into treasure! Life requires discovering beauty but also creating beauty. There is nothing that is not beautiful, it just depends on how we transform them. For specific instructions on how to modify an iron bucket, please refer to the illustrated tutorial below.

Main materials:

A scrap iron bucket, white latex, gauze, and pebbles (several)

Tools required:

Plastic shovel, sponge, brush

Production steps:

Step 1:

DIY Nordic-style garden flower pots from scrap iron barrels

1. Brush the entire body of the iron bucket with white latex.

Step 2:

DIY Nordic-style garden flower pots from scrap iron barrels

2. Glue the gauze, and then paste the pebbles on the gauze one by one.

Step 3:

DIY Nordic-style garden flower pots from scrap iron barrels

3. Use a brush to fill the gaps in the cobblestones with white latex.

Step 4:

DIY Nordic-style garden flower pots from scrap iron barrels

4. Use a sponge to clean the bucket full of pebbles and smooth it out.

Step 5:

DIY Nordic-style garden flower pots from scrap iron barrels

5. You’re done, just plant the flowers in now!