Age Terra Cotta Pots In One Easy Step
I’ve really been loving the terra cotta pot look lately, but I’m not a huge fan of the solid orangey look you get when buying new pots. So, I used this quick and easy process to age my pots in seconds.
All you need is your pot, a paint brush, and done white paint. I used rustoleum chalk paint in linen white because I had it on hand.
Lightly dip your brush in the paint and dab it off on a napkin once or twice. You want very minimal paint on the brush. Then take your brush and lightly brush it over your pot. The first pot I brushed it on in straighter lines(this is what you see in the photo), which looks pretty, but I found that brushing in circles helps the pot to look more organically aged.
Before and after. You can see that it has helped mute the orange color quite a bit.
This pot I painted in circles, so you can see the two different approaches when comparing it to the Previous photo.
I painted the pots all differently, some have a little heavier paint while some are very light. You can really play around with it and find just the right look for you. If you wind up with two much paint in some places (which I did) you can just use a wet paper towel to scrub off some of the paint.
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If you come upon a decoupaged or painted pot you like, you can insert an icepick in several places in the dirt which will give your plants air pockets. I do this about an hour after I water them.
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Mom in her end years loved to paint her pots over winter. Relaxed her on cold snowy home bound days. She used old nail polish, and they were cute. She took such pride when planted in the spring. We (8 kids) all received a personal piece of mom when she passed. And they still grow great flowers some with many coats of polish
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