One of our favorite DIY bloggers is at it again with an effective and no-sweat idea for displaying plants and herbs indoors...
While searching for inspiration on displaying plants indoors, I came across a guest post on Tatertots & Jello by Michelle, author of Ten June and the mastermind behind that amazing Super Sized Sunburst Mirror project we featured back in February.
Using little tins leftover from her wedding decor, Michelle created a simple grid of herbs, emphasized by the negative space of the soft grey wall in her breakfast room. What a splendidly simple way to display your plants indoors! The only problem I could see with this is that I’d always be wanting to cook with the herbs at hand, and there’d be nothing left to look at!
Make sure to check out both Tatertots & Jello and Michelle’s blog, Ten June for more great design inspiration and DIY ideas.
Thanks again, Michelle!
Images: via Tatertots & Jello
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This is very clever and nicely dresses a wall with no hassle. If I would suggest only one reserve (do you say so? English is not my native language), this would be for the water that could damage the wall in certain ways. I'd apply a square of satin or "glossed" coat of paint as a flat framing. This would prevent humidity to penetrate the wall and create mould...
Apart that, I'd like to try this at home. Bravo!
Nota: nothing related to the topic but I really appreciate the bricked wall on the left. I'll soon be moving into my new appartment and have some willing to create a kind of old painted bricked wall with plaques of plaster here and there to make it "vintage"... Thks for inspiring me!
dont herbs need sunlight? these would all die quickly
too sterile looking for me.
Lovely arrangement - but the plants would need to be removed from the containers to thoroughly water, and replaced every few weeks due to lack of light.
Possible to reveal the lovely gray paint color?
Based on other photos from the blog post, I think this photo was taken at night, and that the herbs are getting sunlight during the day. Nobody who's ever owned a plant would expect it to survive in a dark windowless room, after all! :)
This looks cute. I know that my klutzy hands would be spilling water all over the wall every time I watered, but if you were careful enough, you could make it work. I like Cyrille's idea of a protective layer behind the plants.
And if you used up all the herbs in one pot, you could just pop the tin off the wall and plant something else in it.
As it, it seems really sparse. I think a frame around the arrangement would do a good job of making everything more grounded.
Herbs are right up there with cactus in terms of the amount of direct light they need to survive indoors.
Quite simply, these plants will not survive for long in this situation.
Something like ivy might be a more appropriate choice for these containers.
Jose A, I love your idea of a frame around the plants - a rustic white wood frame would look amazing
I'm worried about the water damaging the wall as, well. I think it looks great, though - maybe she gets a lot of sunlight through out the day and we aren't able to tell in that light?
I find the Asker/ Gruntal systems from Ikea good alternatives for indoor planters.
http://typearamblings.blogspot.com/2011/04/wonderful-mr-asker-mrs-bygel-and-ms.html
I think it looks so cute; however, agree with others that you may run into issues with water damage on the wall. It's surprising how much damage a little water can do. But if you don't mind taking them all down to water them elsewhere, it'd be a great project!