indoor-plants

Buying a gorgeous, massive, six-foot-tall indoor Ficus tree is incredibly expensive. Buying the massive, heavy, highly textured 24-inch terracotta or concrete planter pot legally required to actually hold the root ball of that tree will violently drain your bank account even further.

You do not need to spend $150 on heavy ceramic pottery. If you own a massive, empty plastic tub (like a massive 5-gallon paint bucket, a massive plastic cat litter tub, or a cheap, ugly plastic trash can), you already possess the perfect physical architecture.

By utilizing heavy sanding techniques and aggressively applying a highly textured "faux-stone" plaster treatment, you can mathematically disguise a flimsy piece of ugly neon plastic into a breathtaking, minimalist, faux-concrete planter that looks completely identical to expensive high-end boutique pottery. Here is the architectural forgery blueprint.

The basic orange clay terracotta pot is the absolute holy grail of the houseplant community. Because terracotta is insanely porous, it physically breathes, pulling excess moisture out of the dirt and preventing your expensive Monstera from dying of root rot.

However, from an interior design perspective, staring at twenty identical, dusty orange pots on a living room shelf is incredibly boring.

Painting a terracotta pot is the easiest way to inject massive blocks of bright, modern color into your plant jungle. But if you simply slap neon acrylic paint onto a raw terracotta pot and then water the plant, the water will bleed right through the clay from the inside out and violently tear the paint completely off in massive, rubbery bubbles. To maintain the health of the plant and the durability of the paint, you must execute a strategic seal. Here is the foolproof guide.