For my wife’s birthday this year, I decided to get her a few succulent planters and take her to the local nursery to pick out some succulents to pot them in. Though we have an apartment and few windows, it seemed to me like our apartment is a perfect setup for house-dwelling plants that need indirect sunlight and a few hours of direct. The problem is, our dining table is the closest thing to the back window that will provide most of the sun, so it wasn’t close enough for our liking to place the plants on. So, I enlisted my dad’s help to build us a longer, thinner table of sorts to rest just near the back window for our plants to sit on and bask in the sun. Basically, he’s taking an old metal end table that’s longer than it is wide. Its design makes it so that things don’t rest level on the surface, so he’s attaching a wood plank up top for a level surface (and some character, since it’s barnwood) and also putting a plank on the bottom part for a lower “shelf” of sorts. To me, this is the best way to really make some furniture for your plants. It needs to be homemade, rustic, and not too much of a project that’ll break the bank or your back in making it. Plants really are the star of the show on these sorts of focal pieces, so the furniture itself doesn’t have to be astounding by any means. In fact, I’d argue that it’s far more about creating a minimalistic place for your plants to rest so that they shine more. When you start making the furniture too nice, it takes away from the plants. To go along with the plants and potting jars, I got her a little book on raising succulents and best practices for different species and genera. I’m excited to get this little hobby going, especially because it’ll make our apartment a lot cleaner and help to filter some of the air out since we also have a pet. Even better, I can already envision putting my collection of tequila bottles on the bottom shelf to add to the desert look of the window piece. It should end up looking minimalistic enough to really tie together while also maintaining a very loose theme as well. I’m almost giddy at the thought knowing we’ll end up wanting to do more plant-based themes around the apartment afterwards!
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