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21 Awesome DIY Planters to Kick Off the Summer Months in Style

by on May 18, 2020

Unofficially, summer has already started and one of the easiest ways to freshen up your space, indoors and out, is with plants. So, why not try one of these 21 DIY planter ideas to help transform your space on a limited budget. Bonus! These planter projects won’t take up your whole weekend. In fact, most of them will only take a couple of hours. You in? Let’s get to it.

 

Three plants hung at different heights against a gray wall decorated with framed art.
Photo: Ohhh Mhhh

1. Hanging DIY bangle planters

The letter c covered in greenery.
Photo: Burkatron

2. DIY letter planter

Steel box planter with spindly white legs with a broad leafed plant.
Photo: Monsters Circus

3. DIY raised planter project

A small bleached white fabric and natural fabric planter with a small green plant sits in a white room.
Photo: Fall for DIY

4. DIY faux glazed pots

Aloe plants in pots sitting next to a pitcher.
Photo: Paper & Stitch

5. Modern DIY concrete planters

Do it yourself planters in gray, blue, and yellow are stacked on a lawn beneath a tree.
Photo: A Piece of Rainbow

6. DIY long wood planters

Four pentagon shaped tan small planters filled with one cactus each surround a round shaped tan small planter with a tall cactus in it.
Photo: Curbly

7. DIY faux metal geometric planters

A wilted tree in a clay pot suspended in a wooden frame.
Photo: Vintage Revivals

8. Openwork DIY cube planter

A fern plant in a white planter atop a three legged thin metal stand on a wooden floor.
Photo: Tatertots and Jello

9. DIY bullet planter

A sleek, three legged plant stand filled with ivy stands on a wooden floor beside an oversided metal letter D.
Photo: Curbly

10. DIY planter from a wood salad bowl

Checkerboard pattern of slat-front planter boxes filled with green plants, in front of a wall.
Photo: ManMade

11. DIY wood planter boxes

A cactus in a black and white chicken planter, a tiny tree in a clay pot and succulents in a southwestern style planter.
Photo: Plaster and Disaster

12. DIY adobe house planters

A vase having green and purple plant in it
Photo: Burkatron

13. DIY concrete planter

A woman holding a plant for indoor decoration
Photo: Curbly

14. DIY modern succulent planter

A woman in an orange skirt waters cactus in a white planter on a brown stool with a white watering can behind two other planters containing cactus.
Photo: Sugar & Cloth

15. DIY mid century planters

Cement bricks stacked up and used as planters.
Photo: Remodelista

16. DIY concrete block planters

Pink stripes form a triangle on a white rectangular planter with succulents.
Photo: Tell Love and Chocolate 

17. DIY modern indoor planter

Two wooden crates sit on a tarp in the yard.
Photo: Censational Girl

18. DIY criss cross outdoor planters

Two hanging planters with flowers in them.
Photo: Creative Savings

19. DIY colander planter

Five small succulents in a rectangular pot that looks like white marble with grey veins.
Photo: Its Pretty Nice

20. Marble DIY planter 

A cactus plant in a vase lying over two books near a camera.
Photo: Francois et Moi

21. DIY mudcloth planter