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- Welcome to Mother Daughter Projects.
I'm Steph.
- I'm Vicki, and today we're on Steph's porch,
and we're sharing how we made this succulent holder.
- One thing I want to mention, is in the video,
we talked about wanting the shelves
to line up with the slats in my vinyl sidings.
So, here you can see that's what we're talking about.
- Let's get started.
- We're using two one-by-six foot boards,
and one one-by-six foot eight foot board.
We're cutting the eight foot board
into three 26 inch shelves.
The six foot boards were cut to 61 inches.
These measurements ensure that the shelves line up
with my vinyl siding once this is in place.
These boards are a little wider than my miter saw,
so I'm using the sliding feature of my saw.
Each shelf will hold four pots,
and I'm using our Kreg Multi-Mark
to get everything evenly spaced.
Then I traced each pot.
The pots are four and a half inches across,
so I'm using a four inch hole saw
in which the pots will fit.
This Milwaukee hole saw was the perfect choice
to make a clean cut through the entire board.
You'll see I have a scrap piece of wood underneath,
and this is to help prevent the back side of the hole
from getting tear out.
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After I cut the top board,
I just traced the cut hole onto the next board,
and continued on to cutting all three boards.
While I was working on that,
Mom added a primer of DecoArt gesso to the pots.
Then she painted them
with a dark turquoise DecoArt acrylic paint.
To attach the shelves to the sides,
we're just using a corner brace,
and again the spacing is based on where it'll hit
my vinyl on my porch.
We marked where the holes needed to be,
and drilled pilot holes.
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The brace was a little hard to get to
so I used a flexible shaft to attach the screws.
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We attached the shelf to one side,
and then attached to the other side.
We could've also painted these corner braces,
but we forgot to do that.
Here it is, time to check it out in the space.
Once it was in place, we realized we had the opportunity
to cover up this wiring
that I've always hated the look of on my porch.
So we found some extra scrap wood in the garage,
cut it to size, stained it, and put it into place.
This one here we're using as a shelf for extra storage.
Then we glued and brightened out each slat into place.
The top shelf is gonna be lower than the top slat,
so you can't see stuff that's placed on the shelf.
Again, we glued and brightened out everything into place.
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And then we checked it out,
and so happy that it covers up all the ugly cables now.
Lastly, Mom filled all the pots,
adding some rocks for drainage,
and to keep the soil from coming out of the pot,
soil, and then the succulents.
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The color of the pots corresponds
with the blue in our new pillows.
- [Both] What we learned.
- This is the second of two builds we made
for our recent project with the The Home Depot,
and we did it really fairly quickly.
And because of that,
we weren't as mindful of the construction,
and it is a little wonky in places,
but you know what, it's rustic, so it is okay.
- Now one of the game changers here
is I was actually gonna cut out all of the holes
for the pots with a jigsaw, and I was ready to do it.
But then Mom was like,
"Um, why don't you just get a hole saw?"
And I thought, "Oh, yeah.
Yeah, you're right."
So it would've taken way more time,
and the holes would not be perfect at all
if I'd used a jigsaw,
so I'm really glad we got the hole saw.
And we have used cheaper hole saws in the past,
but our piece of advice is get quality hole saws
because they will work way better than cheap things,
and save you a lot of frustrating times.
So our two favorite brands are Diablo and Milwaukee.
We have both of those, and we love them, they're great.
- Now we had a lot of discussion
about how we were gonna actually utilize this in the space.
We really wanted to hang it on the wall,
but then we thought,
we don't want to put holes into the vinyl,
and we don't want to put it hanging from ceilings,
so that's when we decided on a freestanding unit.
Now if you're concerned about, if you have little children,
concerned about it tipping over,
there are furniture kits that you can get
that you can secure to the wall.
We don't have that issue here,
so we're okay with the freestanding.
- If we were to do this again,
we'd probably make this shelf here
that we added last minute a little bit deeper,
just so we could put more stuff in here
that you wouldn't be able to see.
But we're really happy with the fact
that it is recessed a little bit.
We haven't put anything on it yet,
but we're excited to fill it up.
And I'm super happy
with how this kind of last minute slats on the front
really hide the cables underneath.
I love technology, so,
but the more technology, the more cables,
and the more I have to figure out
how to cover them up 'cause they're not pretty.
So I'm really happy with the solution.
This is finally like, made it nice and pretty,
and I don't have to look at those cables,
and I still get the benefit of some smart devices out here.
- Now one thing to remember
is don't forget to paint the bottom of the pots.
I did that, and when we put them up here, it's like,
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oh, you can see those.
So, as you're painting the outside of the sides,
be sure to do the bottoms.
- And if you want to see the reveal of the whole porch,
you could check that out on The Home Depot blog,
and we'll put a link to that below, thanks for joining us.
- [Both] Bye.