Hello hello, and HAPPY SPRING! Oh I am so glad we are hopping into spring and soon onto sunshine and summertime! I have been itching to get back on here and write about several things that I've been wanting to share, but have been too busy to even think about it! Between working my two jobs, family events, St. Patrick's day, and traveling between Pittsburgh and Philly every weekend for the past month I am just worn out. Finally I have a day at home by myself to just breath, slow down, and catch up on some things. So finally I have an opportunity to share with you my latest project!
For this project you will need:
4 Small Tin/ Galvanized Cans
Wood Board about 26 1/4" x 5 1/4"
4 screws
2 picture mounting brackets
Total time: 1 hour
While I was out in Pittsburgh visiting family for the weekend, I came across several antique shops (duh, I couldn't just drive by) and decided to look around. I found these old numbered tin cans and loved them! I knew I would put them to use for something. I've been wanting to start an herb garden so that's the first thing I thought of. Later into the project I decided that I was instead going to use this just as wall decor with a few flower stems for our bedroom. It would've been great if I could've used our home address but our numbers weren't available so I just picked four of the best looking cans.
When I got home I scavenged up a piece of pallet wood, spaced out my cans where I wanted them and Cody trimmed my board to size. (Yes our garage is currently torn apart into a Motorcycle shop, so we are trimming on top of the mustang)
Once that was finished we were figuring out how to securely attach the cans to the board. Since I had changed my mind from using this as an herb garden to just wall decor for our bedroom, I knew it didn't have to hold anything heavy. In this case we just drilled a hole center in the back of each can and screwed the cans into the board. Attaching them this way will most likely not support anything heavy so if you are going to use this as an herb garden, you will probably want to support the cans with a metal brace and screws or something similar. You can see below how we attached ours.
Once we had the tin cans attached to the pallet wood, all we did was screw two little mounting brackets on the back of the board so we could hang it.
We hung it in our bedroom and dressed it up with some flowers and that was it! In about an hour we had ourselves a fun new piece of wall decor!
To save you a little time and money on this project, you don't have to go out trying to find real "antique" cans. I just happened to luck out and find these beauties! Instead, go to your local craft store, dollar store, Walmart, Target, etc. and find some cheap galvanized cans. Spray paint some numbers with a stencil and if you want to make them look a little distressed, rub them with some grease or stain take some steel wool to the can to scratch it up a little and fade the numbers.
This project would work great as an herb garden (attached more securely), to use in an office to hold supplies like pens, pencils, scissors, etc., or dress it up like I did and use it to make a statement in a room as a piece of wall decor! Be creative and use it as you need it!
I hope I gave you a piece of inspiration today and I hope many of you will put together this simple project at home! It hardly took any time at all! Share with me any comments or questions below and feel free to share what you used this for in your home! Thanks for visiting Farmhouse Flare today! Have a HAPPY EASTER everyone!
Sincerely,
Lauren Taylor
