week 5 – patio and outdoor – spring 2025 ORC – planter boxes and plants

This is week 5. You know what time of the year it is. It is One room challenge time. I signed up to do my backyard redesign for this. Come say hi. All the inspo and moodboard are below. Follow me @littlepaisly on instagram to see more updates on the project. Each week, there will be a reveal of the prior week. Go to ORC Posts to see all the previous posts.

Reveal

Just to recap, we finished work on the side planter box.

Below are some reference images I used for this.

I actually agonized over this more than the crazy tile.

I was really thinking of doing a 4×4 but we ended up going for 2×4 cedar due to cost.

a 4×4 will also provide a seating option which this doesnt.

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The box has screws on the inside to hold together and a vertical wood piece. Make sure its all level.

The crazy tile level is lower than the checkered tile.So the planter box only extends till the end of the crazy tile.

I got my carpenter to do L shape box. He used a vertical piece in the corners to hold the pieces. On one side, I have a fence so I had to add another layer of treated wood on the inside and i got a pvc pipe added for drainage.

Railway planks was something i really wnated to incorporate. the number of hours i wasted on railway plank seating was simply a wasted effort.(see above for the inspo) I agonized over so many facebook marketplace listings of planks. I wasnt sure they would last outside.

Another thing that set me against this idea is its too modern.

Here is a planter box plan I found that you can use.

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The chair was how i measured how tall i wanted the planter. I kid you not.

Then, i also had an old planter box i measured it against.

the box was thusly created. 🙂

I made sure the crazy tile section wasnt square and therefore, the planter box cuts in and adds a visual plant element for all the rectangular line. we re routed the drip pipe as well for the concrete.

Once the box was done, i added a lot of river rocks or whatever cheap rock you can find at the bottom for drainage. Then, i added carboard boxes that i was hoarding and plant cuttings i was hoarding and i begged from neighbors. after this, i got local mulch delivered and painstakingly added this into the planter box. it was not easy.

I had originally considered the fence in the picture below but i just added a cattle panel across and secured with metal zip ties.

Here is a planter box plan I found that you can use.