Inspired by DIY: Pottery Barn Cachepot

Hello, hello! It’s time for one of my favorite challenges, Inspired by DIY!  This month we are sharing DIYs inspired by Pottery Barn.  A huge thanks to our hostess Domicile 37 for organizing and creating our beautiful graphics for this challenge.

My inspiration piece was a blue lotus cachepot that cost a pretty penny.  What I absolutely love about the pot is that it is hand-painted.  I knew I could create something similar.   Especially when it’s okay to have imperfections in a design!  The project costs me under $2. 

What you need for this cute and quick DIY:

A white and plain pot

Blue enamel paint marker

Tape (painter’s tape or washi tape)

How to:

To “hand draw” stripes that are straight, use tape and trace around it.  Two lines at the top of your pot will do the trick.

Create a scallop pattern using the top line for a guide.  Draw lotus flowers on top of the scallops (and little stems and leaves) after the ink dries.   Since this is hand-painted, they don’t need to look perfect. 😉

Use another piece of tape at the bottom to create one more straight line.  A fun-“bumpy” detail  mirrors the inspiration piece.

The top band of the cachepot has the only perfect pattern.  You could try a stencil or to keep this project around 5 minutes, use a piece of decorative tape to create the symmetry. 

I love the contrast between the black-evenly-spaced polkadots and the hand-painted blue pattern.

Pot a cute-little plant and there you have it, an easy-5 minute Pottery Barn inspired cachepot.

You are going to be blown away by the rest of these projects.  Make sure to check out all of them!

Pretty Practical Home // PMQ for Two // Iris Nacole // Suburban B*tches // This is Our Bliss

Up To Date Interiors // Monica Wants It // Maggie Overby Studios

There’s also another fun blog hop going on this week!   Join our garden party as a few bloggers each day show you their beautiful outdoor spaces.  Come back Friday to see our little Okinawa garden! 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Tomorrow some friends and I are sharing a Christmas in July post!