Project Planter

Leave it to Pinterest to give me more crazy ideas.....

So, I had this old spare 5-drawer file cabinet.  I had two of them, but only needed one in my office, so one sat idly in our garage for... months (Eric was thrilled).

Knowing I wouldn't get much for it at the salvage yard, I pondered what I could do with it.  I turned to my good buddy, Pinterest.  

There, I found a fun planter box made out of a smaller file cabinet, then searched some more and found a larger one just like mine that had been transformed.  I did have a need for a planter box and, since I am no carpenter and not able to make my own, my new project idea had been born.

Mine was rather beat-up.  I sanded it, gave it a paint job, drilled a ton of holes for drainage, and affixed some castors (just happened to have a set!) to the bottom, to ensure mobility.

Mom gave me an enormous bag of bubble wrap.  I filled the planter 2/3 full with the bubble wrap, plus empty milk jugs.  Those non-biodegradable items were perfect not only for drainage, but to ensure the planter wouldn't weight 2000 lbs by the time I got done filling it with dirt.

I used just over 2 bags of dirt (4 cubic feet).  Then, I filled it up with asparagus fern, perennial decorative grasses, geraniums, and petunias.  Voila.  Repurposed planter!

I still may do some decorative toll-painting or stenciling on it.  But, for now, I'm done with it and am itching to move on to my next project; Project Basement Bathroom.  :-)