11 Ideas to Use Old Furniture in Your Garden

Somewhere in the remote corner of the store room, or on the terrace bearing the scorching heat of the sun — those are the familiar addresses for Old Furniture in a house. A table that graced the living room for years, the sofa set that could never relax in comforting others, the remnant panels of that wooden book shelf — all subject to a coarse, disdainful treatment towards their fag end. Anyone with a bit of heart, a bit of care and a bit of brain too, will make these oldies relive. Decorating the garden with Old Furniture can be one of them. Wondering how that obsolete bed could be turned into the most beautiful planter? Read below to find out:

1. Dresser Planters

Sitting in your bedroom is a dresser table, which just does not go with the theme of your house and you have been contemplating to buy a new one. Go buy a new one and take the old one into your garden, open all its drawers add the clay, seed in the summer plants and voila! Suddenly, the dresser does not look as despicable anymore. Use old vases or wooden cartons to fill in the dresser a little more and use the plants with contrasting colors.

2. Bed Gardens

Turn your bed into a flowerbed. If you have a traditional, classic wooden structured bed then you don’t need much to turn it into a garden. However, modern beds with metal structure or any other specification may need some more creativity. Take off the mattresses, get an axe (or a carpenter if you please) and cut the wood into sections such that planters fit in the wood. Make sure that the planters are not very heavy so that they do not kill the bed along with the plants. And there you have it, a bed garden. Adorn it with vines and kettle pots or glass jar planters and make it even more stunning than it ever was. Now you don’t have to wait for the night to dream.

3. Chair planters

To make a chair into a garden it has to fulfill the same criteria like the bed, but any chair should do if you wake up the artist in you. Make a hole on the seat and fit in a planter with the plants or succulents of your choice. You could also paint the chair in your choice of colors and write messages on it, like this one below:

You might want to make sure nobody sits on it.

4. Drawer Planters

So your table is still okay but somehow your drawers fail to be immortal. You still have the option to get new drawers. You could keep the old ones in the garden and plant in them some flowers and your drawers just may become immortal.

5. Table Gardens

Your furniture doesn’t have to be dead for it to be converted into a living thing. You can convert your everyday furniture into a garden too. You don’t have to use the full available space.

6. Dining Table Garden

If you want your old dining table to look like Alice just walked in on Mad Hatter’s tea party, go ahead and turn it into one like this:

You could use the grass mats that are available in the market to cover the table and the chairs or you could just follow the method in above points and turn them into planters.

7. Swing Set Garden

Have you a sad looking swing set which does not make you happy anymore? Throw in some life in it with the help of flowers.

8. Study Table Gardens

Study Tables don’t have to be mundane. Follow the procedures above and make it look a little happy, like this one below:

9. Bookshelf Gardens

If you have a bookshelf that has seen better days, its time you change it and recompense your books with something new after all that they’ve given to you. You could use your old one to make a flowerbed without having to go through all the trouble of constructing an actual one. To be precise:

10. Dice Stools

Dice stools were all the rage when they were introduced but they have lost their value these days. If you want to put them to better use, give them to someone who would value them better: plants.

Turn them into planters and they will give a completely new edge to your garden.

11. Sofa Gardens

A sofa is the one piece of furniture, which looks awful after it wears out, not only the looks of it, but also its fabric and its cushioning. For a sofa whose fabric looks like your dog has been all over it, you can put it to better use. Like this one below:

Grass mats are available in all shapes and sizes and they are not very heavy on the pocket. You could use a few of them and make your own sod sofa.

There are many more ways to turn your boring garden into something more alive, and put your obsolete furniture to a better use.