Make an midcentury modern style planter with hairpin table legs and an old laundry tub

An enterprising reader who contributed to our recent uploader (we got 228 photos!) impressed everyone with a DIY project that could have come straight out of a 1956 Popular Mechanix: Marry an old washtub to hairpin table legs and plant it up to make a fabulous midcentury modern style planter.

This project actually started with trash-picking, which I prefer to call dumpster-diving, even if a dumpster is not involved. Sounds classier, don’t you think? Mystery reader uploaded the photo above, writing:  

This spring I found a couple turquoise fiberglass laundry tubs curbside.

Then, mystery reader got creative:

Attached a few hairpin legs and I ended up with some custom atomic planters.

I especially appreciate how mystery reader varied the height of the hairpin legs to create even more drama. And she or he also knows how to design a container garden: Tall stuff, flat stuff, and stuff that grows to sweep down — nicely played! Thank you for this great idea, mystery reader, although I don’t know how many of us are going to be so lucky as to find scrumptious vintage turquoise fiberglass laundry tubs out on trash day! But here’s an idea: Use spray paint that’s made to paint plastic to get just the retro color you want!

Hmmmm…. what else could we
put hairpin table legs on
to make planters like this?

• See our story 9 places to buy hairpin table legs. I think quite a few readers do the Amazon thing, because I see some affiliate dough-re-mi come from them every month. Merci beau coups — helps keep the blog boat afloat!

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