Having plants at home has many benefits for our health and well-being: for example, they improve the air quality in the home, relax us and increase concentration. But beyond this, brighten any room and they can be a magnificent opportunity to decorate our home.
You can find many beautiful flower pots in stores, but you can also make your own homemade flower pots with natural and recycled materials.
If you like hanging plants, which are very decorative and allow you to put plants in places where you may not have space for a pot on the ground, you can also make your own hanging planters, both for indoor hanging plants and for outdoor hanging plants.
Today we propose to you 6 very decorative and easy-to-make hanging planters.
1. Hanging planters with rope
There are many types of hanging planters made with rope or threadbut the one we show you below is extremely easy to make at home.
You only need a piece of thread long enough, the one in the video measures about 2 metersand in less than a minute you will have it ready.
2. Hanging planter with wooden sticks
To make this beautiful planter you only need wooden sticks (like those in ice cream) and a large piece of rope.
It is as simple as gluing the sticks together so that the pot is securely held inside and, at the corners, tying the rope that will later be used to hang this original pot.
3. Hanging planter with wooden rings
If you have old or damaged embroidery hoopsyou can give them a new use as hanging planters.
You will need one small one and two larger ones of the same size, some string to cover the small embroidery hoop and to attach it to the other two, and some glue. It couldn’t be simpler and more elegant!
4. Hanging planters with cutting boards
The wooden cutting boards They can also be magnificent hanging planters. Don’t you believe it? Take note of these original ideas presented to us by the Argentine content creator specializing in crafts and decoration Agus Gallo.
All you need is an old cutting board, some glue, and a mesh kitchen towel or macrame thread. In the video you can see the step by step to do two different versions: one with macramé that is somewhat more complex and a very simple one with the kitchen towel.
5. Hanging planters with kitchen towels
With old kitchen rags (well cleaned so that they look pretty) you can make very pretty flower pots like the ones you will see in the following video, once again from the content creator Agus Gallo.
She uses floor cleaning rags with a honeycomb weavebut the kitchen cloths you have at home can also be useful. You will also need some glue, a button and a piece of ribbon to hang it and macrame thread to make the bottom fringes, if you wish.
«They can be hung from a wooden pole like I did, from a natural twig or simply from a coat rack or hook that you can place on the wall» explains Gallo.
6. Hanging planters for glass bottles
Another very nice option is to make a flower pot to hang glass bottles in which to grow your plants.
The one we show below, from decoration and plant content creator Lito Antony, is made with 8 jute ropes of 1 meter each and a guava branch to hang the bottles (although you can use any other type of branch you have on hand). If you apply a coat of varnish to the branch, it will last longer, explains Antony.