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    Home » Decorate

    How to Create a Wood Crate Flower Centerpiece

    March 22, 2017 by Patti Estep 5 Comments

    Wood crates and pots of flowers in crates

    Learn three different ways to create a beautiful wood crate flower centerpiece for your home using wood stain, chalk, and craft paints.

    Wood crate centerpieces

    We had so much fun creating a wood crate flower centerpiece at our girls' getaway weekend. Each year myself and two long time friends go away for the weekend and stay at my friend's sister's farmhouse in the mountains.

    Most of the time we talk, shop, and eat. However, in the last couple of years, we started adding creative activity for us to enjoy, which is then shared on the blog.

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    Clay pots, wood crates, stain and paint

    Wood Crate Flower Centerpiece

    Materials

    Wood Crate (15 in.)
    4 1/2 " Clay Pots (3)
    4 " clay saucers (3)
    Chalk Paint
    Dark Walnut Stain
    Gray Stain

    Stained and painted wood crates

    For this project, you first need to decide how you want to decorate your crate. Here we used three different options.

    One was stained with a gray stain. The other two with dark walnut wood stain. One was left dark, and the other was whitewashed with white chalk paint.

    Painting clay pot navy

    I had my friends decorate three clay pots and saucers to go into the crates. Here my friend painted her pots blue and gold, as a tribute to West Virginia Mountaineers, where her boys go to school.  She chose the dark walnut stained crate to hold her pots.

    Painting clay pot white

    My other friend decided to use white chalk paint to cover the entire pot and saucer, and the gray stained crate. After the pots dried, she used a little sandpaper to slightly distress the edges.

    Sanding painted mason jar

    The third crate is a thank you gift from me to the homeowner. Here I painted three mason jars instead of clay pots, as a low maintenance option. 

    The mason jars can be used as vases to hold cut flowers, cutlery, or other items. They were painted with blue chalk paint and then sanded for a distressed look. Then I added a little twine with glue at the top for texture.

    Navy and gold pots with tulips

    Here's the Mountaineer tribute complete with potted tulips. We left the plants in their nursery pots so that you could remove them for watering, or to easily switch out them out with something new.

    Gerbera daisies in white pots

    Gerbera daisies went into this pretty gray stained crate with white pots.

    Aqua painted mason jars with white tulips

    Lastly, the mason jars in the whitewashed crate. Doesn't it look great with these blush tulips?

    This is a great project to make with others. Easy, quick, inexpensive, creative, and something you can use all year long.

    Now I need to make one for my home.

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    White wood crate with aqua mason jars and tulips

     

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    About Patti Estep

    Patti is the creator of Hearth and Vine, a home and garden blog filled with projects to inspire your creative side. She loves crafting, gardening, decorating and entertaining at her home in Pennsylvania. When she is not working on a project at home or searching for treasures at nurseries and thrift stores with her girlfriends, you’ll probably find her with family and friends, at a restaurant, or home party enjoying new and different food adventures.

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    Comments

    1. Stacey

      March 27, 2017 at 9:58 pm

      These turned out so pretty and what a fun project to do with friends.

      Your new blog name is perfect!

      Thanks for your sweet comment at Poofing the Pillows today. ♥

      Reply
    2. FLORENCE @ VintageSouthernPicks

      March 27, 2017 at 4:05 pm

      I love this idea! I always like a bit of rusticity...plants look good paired with it & as you say, easy to take them out to water or change out completely.

      Reply
      • Patti Estep

        March 27, 2017 at 4:11 pm

        Hi Florence,

        They were so fun to make and it was a great activity to share with my good friends.

        Thanks for stopping by,
        Patti

        Reply
    3. Carole

      March 22, 2017 at 8:22 am

      What fun! I love this idea too because creating with friends is so neat. I'm looking at these first thinking which one is my favorite and it's difficult because they all look amazing. However the last one with the jars would fit perfect in our current home.

      Reply
      • Patti Estep

        March 22, 2017 at 8:41 am

        Hi Carole,

        You could probably make one from scratch with your woodworking expertise. Add it to your list for when you have a moment.
        Thanks for stopping by,
        Patti

        Reply

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