Indoor Plant Hanging Stand

Alright for all the other creatives out there, ya know when you have an idea in your head and you can visualize it but you need help executing said idea? Well, that is where this project started. I had this vision in my head for an indoor plant hanger to hang in our laundry room where we lack usable counter space for a plant.

So in my head, I pictured a small wooden crate-like square that hung from the ceiling by rope and that a small plant could cascade out the edges and the plant could be easily removed for watering.

The laundry room in our house receives a fair amount of natural light from the East and my idea was to have it hanging above the dryer right next to the window.

I am a visual learner so when someone is explaining something or start talking numbers I need to see it or see the measurements before I am able to visualize what the said item, etc will look like.

Well, I drew this picture on our chalkboard wall of what I was envisioning of the indoor plant hanger stand in my head so that Justin had an idea of what to build. But once we started digging through our scrap piles he made me realized that in order to support a potted plant and still be made out of wood the way I wanted it to that it would have to be bigger and sturdier than what I was originally thinking.

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So a change in my vision of the wood plant stand came about but that is ok, I was still excited to forge on with this project. Again we used scrap wood pieces that we found in our barn and leftovers from other projects.

Because I wanted to have this hang from the ceiling I wanted to make sure the rope could be tied through the top of the wood and be secure with a plant and pot inside. Therefore when we were picking through our scrap wood we chose some old wood spindles from the ramp we took down in the garage. These helped brace the structure so that it ended up being bigger than what I pictured.

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Supplies Needed To DIY An Indoor Plant Hanging Stand

• Scrap Wood or New Wood (Cut pieces: )
• Sand Block or Orbital Sander
• Wood Screws
• Power Drill
• Drill Bit Set (or also known as a drill index)
• Paint or Stain (because I used scrap wood I painted all the wood so it would look uniform this way)
• Rope (this is the exact rope I used)
• Ceiling hook