Project Housewife: Blooming Box

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Blooming Box

Today's project is a continuation of the pallet art I did last week. I actually had 2 pallets and only used one for the project so I had a great idea to make a flower box. I never really loved what I had for under the TV

And for a long time I have been thinking of doing flowers under the TV, I was just having a hard time finding the perfect container for the flowes. I though of using a make travel trunk but they werent long enough, then I thought of using glass but that really wasnt the look I was going for and then the pallet art. You can see the full article here. Once the art was done I asked Joe my handy man husband to make me a flower box. I wasnt thinking anything fancy, just four sides and a bottom but he decided to make it cute and give it an angle. Now you have the back story, below is the finished project. Ok to be honest, I have done MUCH more primping to this since I took this picture because lets be honest the green things are a little CRAZY but i was just so excited I had to share it with you!

Here is what you are going to need for this project:

Wood (cut to your specifications, mine was 4" tall by 20" long)
nails/hammer
saw that can cut angles if you want the fancy box, otherwise just a regular saw
paint, if you want
flowers $30
flower foam $5

Total cost for this project was $35 and that was just flowers and the flower foam, all the other items I had at the house! How awesome, since this would cost over $100 at the store!!

First step is to cut the wood to your measurements. Make sure you also cut a piece to fit into the bottom so you dont have the foam fall out if you pick up the box. You can kinda see the angles here, but Joe actually had to redo this because the angles werent quite right, so not to preach to the choir or anything but measure twice, cut once. Luckly we had plenty of wood to work with so no harm no foul.

Then nail all the pieces together. I would nail the long pieces to the bottom piece first then close it off with the two smaller side pieces, but whatever you feel more comfortable with do that. If you like the look of the wood and dont want to paint then skip this step, but if you want to whitewash your wood follow me to the next step :)

For this step you need your box, paint, water and a paint brush. This is probably not the correct way to white wash but I like the way it turns out so this is the right way for us. I had a gallon of white paint with about 1/4 left. To get it the thin, whitw wash consistancy, we filled up the gallon with water about 3/4 full and then mixed the paint with the water.

Now all you have to do is apply the paint to your project. Easy peasy! Let that sit overnight to make sure you dont get paint on anything then you can move on to the next step...adding the flowes! Before you get started on the flowers, add the foam

Joe cut mine down a little so it fit perfectly in the box, if you did just a square box then you probably wont have to do this but with the angled box it does help to cut it do you have a perfect fit and it doesnt move around in the box. Once the foam is in start adding the flowers. I bought bunches of blowers so I actually had to cut mine apart first into individual stems so if you bought bunches great, you probably saved money you just have to add one extra step.

I added all my big flowers first then filled in the spaces with my smaller yellow fillers.

So what do you think, pretty easy right?! Oh and I added a butterfly, because they are cute and I can so there!

I think it looks so much better than what I had before and it was pretty cheap too! What do you think, is there somewhere you could put a cute little flower box?

**Update** I decided that I needed to show you the primped version of the box since the longer I look at the above picture the more I realize it doesnt do the box justice**