Planter Boxes

An easy way to add curb appeal to your house is by building your own planter boxes and filling them with colorful flowers. Not hard...may take you an afternoon at best. Check out the free woodworking plans for these planter boxes.

These X-frame planter boxes are easy to build and make a great addition to your back yard or add curb appeal to your front door. Follow along at the link to see the step-by-step building instructions.

These handsome planter boxes are easy to build using the free plans and instructions available at the link. There is also a video to assist you should you need it. Don't forget to use exterior grade wood for this outdoor project.

These tiered planter boxes are designed to be used on sloped land. They make a great way to brighten up an other-wise unusable space. Check out how they were built at the link.

You can build these planter boxes for your back yard as individual boxes or add a post and join them with string lights as they have here. Either way its a handsome planter box you can build using these free woodworking plans.

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Follow along with the free step-by-step instructions to build this large planter box. This one was built using cedar fence pickets but you could use any outdoor grade wood.

Build a pair of planter boxes to add curb appeal to your front door. Here is how these ones were built.

Build your own modern planter boxes using the free woodworking plans available at the link. You can adjust the size making them taller, shorter or bigger overall to suit your space.

This planter box (or pot plant holder) is completely held together with wire. Construction is simply a matter of cutting the pieces, drilling the holes and threading the wire.

Planter boxes such as these on either side of the front door would add curb appeal to any home. Build them using these free woodworking plans.

Build this cedar planter box with hidden hose storage using these free instructions.

Here is a great DIY project for your yard. Just follow the instructions at the link and build your own planter boxes.

This is a link to a Google 3D SketchUp drawing for a two tier planter box. You will need the SketchUp software to download this drawing and its freely available online. We do not provide support for this software. Most drawings do not have instructions, its assumed you can build it based on the completed drawing provided.

This planter box (or a couple of them) would look great in your yard or on your porch. Easy to build using just basic tools. Follow the free woodworking plans available at the link to get your yard spruced up this spring.

Learn how to make a planter box mirror; includes details on how to make the mirror look like a window; materials and tool lists included.

At the link you can download the free woodworking plan to build this decorative wooden planter.

I combined 2 of my favorite tools with 2 of my favorite things. The jigsaw and nail gun plus flowers and fun colors!

Build a corner planter box to add curb appeal to your yard.

Here are free woodworking plans for a square planter box. Use them to build your own and up the curb appeal.

This is a wonderful way to show your summer flowers around your deck. These planters are easy to build and can be made from scrap wood. Like many of our projects you easily make them to fit your situation. We made our planter to fit a long narrow plastic planter and go over a 2 X 6 ft deck rail.

At first I really was not very excited about the way this project looked when I was finished. I was hoping for a more dramatic look from the bronze mesh. As it turns out it is pretty cool because as the light changes the planter changes appearance. The more direct sun that shines on it the more you see the mesh the more shade there is the less you see of it. It is sort of like one of those fancy paint jobs you see on a car that are always changing color.

Build a planter box with these free woodworking plans. At the bottom of the link you will find a free download button as well.

Build a beautiful pair of planter boxes using these free step-by-step woodworking plans.

Build your own planter boxes using this free tutorial. This one is three feet long but you could customize it to suite your needs.

Build this raised planter box which features a shelf underneath using these free woodworking plans.

Build a planter box or even a pair for your outdoor patio.

This is a link to a Google 3D SketchUp drawing for a planter box. You will need the SketchUp software to download this drawing and its freely available online. We do not provide support for this software. Most drawings do not have instructions, its assumed you can build it based on the completed drawing provided.

It may look like a lot of other planters you have seen, but it is certainly not built like the rest. You will find you will not need to do a lot of tedious hand work or use a lot of special tools to build this one. The cutting diagrams and materials list are available to download in this Online Extra.

I love projects like this because it cost me almost nothing. I made it all from scraps that I had lying around. Cedar fence scraps made up the bulk of it.