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Step 3Spray paint the top
While you could do just a clear top and bottom, I've read having a dark color for the planting container is a good thing to stop light from damaging the plant roots. So it's time to break out the spray paint.
First step, do one coat of black primer. Don't sweat it if it's not perfectly even coverage - just get it close. I found it easist to put something down that could be rotated (a scrap of 2x6) and don't move the top itself, just rotate what it's on a little bit at a time.
Once that is dry, do 2 thin coats of your topcoat. I'm using a red gloss this time, but I've been using yellow and blue and brown and green as well to change it up a bit. Whatever you have would work.
This step is the most time consuming as we wait for the paint to dry between coats. Luckily it's been hot and sunny lately.
First step, do one coat of black primer. Don't sweat it if it's not perfectly even coverage - just get it close. I found it easist to put something down that could be rotated (a scrap of 2x6) and don't move the top itself, just rotate what it's on a little bit at a time.
Once that is dry, do 2 thin coats of your topcoat. I'm using a red gloss this time, but I've been using yellow and blue and brown and green as well to change it up a bit. Whatever you have would work.
This step is the most time consuming as we wait for the paint to dry between coats. Luckily it's been hot and sunny lately.
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