Garden Junk idea???
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Kathy Franz on Jul 12, 2013oh i love them. they look like the back of old chairs, of some sort. i myself would spray them black or green. pop them in the garden where you have a climbing plant like ivy, so you can move the plant as it grows around the parts of the posts- great find!Helpful Reply
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SANDY on Jul 12, 2013Put 1 on each end of a flower bed or 1 on each end of a white fence or... put each 1 on the back of an old small chair. Then find a small whiteold iron table to set in the middle. Luv those super buy! ( if you follow me then we can chat, I live in Eastern WA) I just started following U. Luv your stuffHelpful Reply
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Angie May on Jul 12, 2013They would make beautiful hanging plant stands, would make a nice entrance way gate holders, or would look superb if used as the ends on a bench. They could also be put flat end to end and would make a nice raised flower bed.Helpful Reply
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Therese C on Jul 13, 2013Oh what beautiful English garden gate sides they would make!Helpful Reply
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Therese C on Jul 13, 2013Oh geez..another idea hit me! You could even put these on each side of your drive up mail box and plant ivy to climb up them! Just a thought...:) They are beautiful!Helpful Reply
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TJ on Jul 13, 2013Lucky you. I love finding these neat old iron pieces especially super cheap. These are very special pieces. They would become a garden gate for me or the backdrop for a very special planter. I also like Angie May's idea of bench ends.Helpful Reply
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TJ on Jul 13, 2013Oh, and don't forget to post pictures of whatever you decide to do with them.Helpful Reply
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Trish Austin on Jul 13, 2013Plant supports.Helpful Reply
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Lori J on Jul 13, 2013Wouldn't they be lovely stuck into a huge pot (one in the pot) with flowers and greenery spilling out in front of them? Perhaps with a house number added with ceramic, iron or painted wood letters? Personally, I think are very lovely in the white and would create nice contrast to all sorts of green and growing things.Helpful Reply
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Judy on Jul 13, 2013I think these would be fabulous at the corners of a flowerbed...decorative solution to keeping the hose out of the flowerbed. Could paint them to blend, or paint them bright to make a statement.Helpful Reply
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Teri on Jul 13, 2013Wow! I am so glad I posted my great find and have wonderful hometalk friends give me their output. Since my last project was a bench made from a bed (also posted) I am going to see if I could use them as a gate way. I hate to cover the detail these beautys have with greenery. Thank you everyone for the help and will keep you posted. I still would love other advice.Helpful Reply
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Stephanie Post on Jul 14, 2013I believe that these are footboard corners for a bed. I had a bed that had something like this instead if a full footboard. These are gorgeous! My first thought was a gate entrance as well!Helpful Reply
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Summer on Jul 14, 2013I think these are all great ideas, but I wouldn't paint them. They're just gorgeous the way the are and any colors or greens would pop against them! beautiful!Helpful Reply
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Lisa Larson Howard on Jul 14, 2013I love these!Helpful Reply
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Tanya Peterson Felsheim on Jul 14, 2013Whatever you do will be AWESOME those are great. Can I have a couple to make a head board out of?Helpful Reply
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Teri on Jul 14, 2013Stephanie I believe your probably right by the looks of them. I would like to some how turn them into a gate entrance, but now Im trying to find out Where I can put them.lolHelpful Reply
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Tanya Peterson Felsheim on Jul 14, 2013yeah put them in my house!Helpful Reply
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Therese C on Jul 14, 2013Do you have a front walk that leads to your door from the street? Or on the walkway that leads to the door your friends most often use? This would be so pretty on each side of the walkway with climbing roses or vines with perhaps an arch built over the top with a welcome friends sign.Helpful Reply
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Teri on Jul 14, 2013Tanya your so funny..in a good way.lol And if I past them on to you where would you put them?Helpful Reply
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Therese C on Jul 14, 2013Sorry this is not a perfect drawing, but you'll get the walkway idea.Helpful Reply
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Janet Robbins on Jul 14, 2013What you found are from a bed frame. They each go onto the end corners of the bed frame. I have a friend who has a bed like this. Cute idea!Helpful Reply
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Lorraine Edwards on Jul 14, 2013Kneejerk reaction: Spray them black; place one on each end of a garden bed and connect with a black chain to add a little interest, e.g., along the garden bed by a driveway, or along a little garden bed by a front door, etc. You get the idea.Helpful Reply
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Phyllis on Jul 14, 2013If U have a free-standing mailbox, U can put 2 around it with a climbing plant or vine.Helpful Reply
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KathrynElizabeth Etier on Jul 14, 2013I wouldn't paint them; they look great in white. I think I'd hang small, trailing plants from the middle, and let something vine up them. I'm not sure ivy will vine on metal; I've never had any luck with that, just brick and wood.Helpful Reply
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Carol Richardson on Jul 14, 2013plant some ferns and bleeding heart's around them that would look prettyHelpful Reply
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Teri on Jul 14, 2013Theresa C Thank you so much for the drawing. I found a spot today and now will have to do some digging. I might even set them in cement. I also found two victorian garden type people that will also look awesome attached to the sides.The stair way goes to my lttle get away where I have my avairys of birds and also do all my craft projects. I like the sign above, but not sure how I could attach it and don't really want to reck the detail.Helpful Reply
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From My Cherry Heart on Jul 14, 2013love them at the bottom of the steps but I would angle them more so you can see them as you walk up to the steps.Helpful Reply
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Therese C on Jul 14, 2013I love your Victorian-type people! They would look beautiful either attached to the sides or mounted atop pedestals just to the outside of them! Please post pictures when you are finished! Or oh my gosh! Wouldn't they look gorgeous attached to a Victorian bird bath?? (the people statues I mean)Helpful Reply
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Tanya Peterson Felsheim on Jul 14, 2013I think I would put them into a little section making up a fairy garden that isn't as tiny as some..could really make it stand out don't ya think?Helpful Reply
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Tanya Peterson Felsheim on Jul 15, 2013@Phyllis Wish our mailbox wasn't all encased in concrete next to a telephone service pole that they clean off 2 times a year!Helpful Reply
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Maggie Lais on Jul 15, 2013This is just one tiny suggestion, and it is only my desire to have patterns that mirror one another... but have you thought of reversing the 'corner bed posts' so that the taller side is up hill, and the lower side is downhill? somehow it suits my sense of balance that way!Helpful Reply
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Therese C on Jul 15, 2013Maggie Lais, I noticed that as well...it has a bit of a 'pitched forward' feel. I am by no means trying to insult anyone's taste, but by reversing the pieces it will draw toward the house rather than pushing away from it...just my opinion, nothing more.Helpful Reply
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Teri on Jul 15, 2013Maggie & Theresa I sat them up that way, but the steps are so steep after the 2nd step the top of the ball looked like it was just sitting there. If that makes sence.Im also thinking about maybe finding something that can go inside the metal since there hollow and make them higher. Once I figure that out maybe it would look better turned around.And no problem I love the advise.Helpful Reply
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Heather Koepke on Jul 15, 2013Hose guides?Helpful Reply
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Heather Koepke on Jul 15, 2013Or put them as a trellis behind a potted plant flanking the front door?Helpful Reply
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Mrs P on Jul 03, 2016These are beautiful !!!! Couple ideas 1) trellis for a climbing rose, in two separate spots in yard, use as a back drop, put a bird bath next to it, a bird house also. OR 2) a garden arbor, if you have a spot that is a walkway, created an arbor, one on either side, to bring the height up I would make a flower bed on both sides of the walkway, "we'll say". 2 ft high flower bed, 2 ft long, 2 ft deep, then you put these on either side in the new flower beds, then I would find some grape vine to go over the top and intertwine them together. Roses in the flower beds to grow up on. Little bit of a job, but well worth it, maybe a bench after you walk through the arbor, with a bird bath, bird house Just a thought I would love those Or 3) if you have a set of 2 or 3 steps some where's, hand rails Good luckHelpful Reply
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Sue Hunter on Aug 02, 2016They are the right and left sides of a foot board from a bed. I have a similar bed frame only mine are longer as it is a canopy. Might give an idea.Helpful Reply
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Lisa on Aug 02, 2016I have seen these at my local shop theyre original part of a queen bed. Wall sconces with some lanterns or add some shelves for storage and displayHelpful Reply
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