Customizing Wood Planters

Wood planters are a great addition to your outdoor scene. They’re pretty, they serve a practical function, and they offer many customizing possibilities. Based on which wood planters you choose, how you customize them, and where you position them, you can use them to either complement existing decoration or work as focal points in your theme.

One of the obvious ways you can customize wood planters is to stain them. Stain allows the natural grain to show but adds interesting colors to the mix. Stain allows you to customize the color but still leaves the wood in a natural-looking state.

You can also add decorations to your wood planters by stenciling patterns on the sides or fastening glass mosaic tiles to the outside.

The way you position wood planters also is a factor in customizing them. Use them as window boxes or as stand-alone planters. Look around your yard. Beside your front doors, along the edge of a porch, grouped around furniture—wood planters can work virtually anywhere. Your design is never limited to the image that accompanies the product packaging.