I have this strange window box in my kitchen. This passthrough used to be a window until the family room addition was put on years ago.
I've filled it with plants, dead plants, and party decor, but my goal from the start was to keep it from being a junk repository. When we moved in, I found a number of receipts, business cards, and other unimportant forgotten items from the previous homeowners and knew if I didn't have a solution, I would probably end up stuffing receipts in it too.
Anyway, I had the new idea to fill it with pedestal cake stands, which would also get some things like fruit off the counter. I already had a vintage stand that fit perfectly. But after some shopping around, I realized that the bases of new ones are too wide to fit into the box. I shopped for months, people. And every single stupid cake stand or pedestal bowl had a base that was too wide by fractions of an inch.
That's when I decided to DIY my own solution. I saw this idea somewhere a long time ago. Martha? Maybe it was Martha.
I took some white ceramic flower pots and flipped them upside-down. They had been in this window box once before, and I knew they would fit.
Then I pressed poster putty onto the bottoms of the pots, and topped them with small milk glass plates. Obviously the profile is a little clunky, but the bottom part is going to be hidden here.
It's actually a lot sturdier than you would imagine. No rocking or shifting and I can even pick the whole thing up by just the plate and it stays together.
I'm planning on leaving mine like this for a while, but it's a completely reversible change and would be great for a temporary occasion like a sweets table at a party. Gonna stick this trick in my back pocket for later.
