Let your garden express your personality. Use old household items as decorations to give the space a unique look. Garden ideas with old household items are endless, so keep your eyes open at flea markets. Consider the overall shape and character of each object to decide where it belongs in the garden. If you have a fence, you can hang birdhouses, mirrors, and chairs on it. If not, place your finds directly among the plants.
Garden ideas with old household items – antique mirror
Garden ideas with old household items are an artistic way to turn your "trash" into treasure. Examples of this "garden junk" style include using old ladders as plant stands, decorating with salvaged branches like a curtain, or filling an old cast-iron bathtub with soil and planting it with white and purple petunias. A junk garden is environmentally friendly because discarded pieces are recycled and used to beautify the garden instead of taking up space in a landfill.
Garden ideas with old household items – old ceramic bowl and wooden logs
Garden ideas with antiques and flea-market finds are limited only by the gardener's imagination. The possibilities range from old shoes used as planters to a vintage toy car turned into a display. Browse our ideas, then look at the world around you with fresh eyes.
Clay pots with blue pansies as wall decor
Concrete chair
Car planter for flowers
Books as bricks 
Old teapots as vases
Reused old door 
Beautiful wooden wheelbarrow with flowers
Grater flower vase
Old cart
Metal bucket planters 
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