DIY Stone Planter Boxes

by Honeybear Lane

4 Materials

$150

1 Week

Medium

This was a big project that took us a long, long time. We wanted to built some DIY stone planter boxes in our back yard. We actually bought the stone a couple years ago and the bricks sat like castle ruins in our backyard for about nine months. I’ve been waiting forever to finally share the photos of a pretty back yard!

I’m super happy with how they turned out though. It made all our hard work worth it.

Since our yard was covered in these stones, we knew we couldn’t get the yard done until the planters were done. First we had to dig out a little bit of dirt in each space to get a solid foundation.

Layered each spot with a few inches of paver base and the carefully leveled the sand into a super smooth and even base.

The next step really helped us to make a very level box. Apparently you can use these instead of paver base and sand so maybe look into that before you buy it. We had already bought and poured it before we found these things so we just used them in addition. They are these black styrofoam pads. They are usually used for paver patios but we cut them in half lengthwise with my table saw (you could cut them with a razorblade also but this was faster) and laid them under each brick. After we did this the first course of bricks was a lot more level.

Once the first two courses of bricks are laid, it’s just a matter of stacking bricks.

Overall we love our planters and we think they were worth the effort and cost. We really wanted to do something different in the back yard and over the years as it fills in and the trees mature, I think it will really be worth it!