Antique Metal Tool Boxes Upcycled!

We love tool boxes for planters because they last! They last in all weather out in the garden and usually rust and dent and acquire lots of quaint character.  Jeanne Sammons was gifted this unusual tool box…and shows how she added her unique stamp on it. Plus we show a lot more new toolbox transformations for you!

She says, Here’s a unique galvanized box I got from my sis for Christmas … I was so surprised! She knows me and what I like!  I’ll have fun finding a place and planting it.

Jeanne “Here’s a unique galvanized box I got from my sis for Christmas … I was so surprised! She’s not a FMG’er! I’ll have fun finding a place and planting it this summer.”

Jeanne added a charming stencil

Jeanne Sammons’s tool box materials, what will she do?

Jeanne added these wrenches as cool ‘hinges!’

Jeanne Sammons planted her tool boxwith Bacopa, asparagus fern, osteospermum, in two colors

Jeanne says, “So, my sis gifted me a beat up old galvanized box for Christmas … turns out it’s called a ‘Painters Tool Box’ (used to hold brushes and turpentine)… I sanded it a bit and hubby helped me add a rusty wrench to hold it open … daughter Barb cut me out the ‘flowers’  lettering on her Cricut and finally I got to plant it this week! It turned out so good! I’m happy!”

More terrific tool boxes!

Frana Blaylock’s planter box

Frana Blaylock:  “I started doing this years ago and replant it every year. it is was an already old tool box someone gave my child when he was little and he is a grown up now.”

Cheryl Adkins “My old tool box.”

Brenda Townzen “This old tool box is definitely one of my favorites , it’s right off my patio so we can enjoy it!”

Brenda Townzen says,  “All the beautiful light green sedum stayed pretty all winter. I’m going to thin it out a little and add a couple of different things to this old tool box.”

Rene Marais “My toolbox!”

Monecia Smalley “Mine is in such sad shape I have to reinforce it with wire.”

Sandi Fleury’s planter box

Sandi Fleury: “Here’s one I made from an old wooden tool box. Gotcha covered for tools. I added some nasturtium seeds. My dad was an awesome mechanic~ I think he would be proud.”

Julie Brown’s planter box

Jeanie Merritt An old farm tool box

Jeanie Merritt: “an old farm tool box from a tractor…. red geraniums and lobelia”

Marie Niemann “I have a couple I plant and love them.”

Jane Krauter’s planter box, all planted

Jane Krauter says, “The fishing tackle & tool boxes are  from a junk store.” The best kind….cheap…

A place for Jane Krauter’s planter box

Rita Michalak “My $5 yard sale purchase.”

Rita Michalak says, “Have you looked at the price of “garden art” in the retail market!!!! Of course I’m going to go for “junk”, it’s all I can afford And in my opinion, rust goes with anything….it’s the “little black dress” for the yard/garden.”

Canan Oguz-Brown’s planter box

Funky tools and some clippings in my tool box tray.

LaNita Clark “Old metal tool box…simple!”

Jeanne Sammons’s planter box

Jeanne Sammons says, “Flowers are planted directly in the rusty toolbox … it was very rusty so I drilled a few holes in the bottom … it’s sitting right now on a galvanized washtub planted with zinnia seed … the idea was to keep the ‘bunnies’ from munching lunch!”

Itsy Bits And Pieces “Garage sale find this week…”