Future home for my Fine Feathered Friends
- By Joan
- February 11, 2016
- 24 Comments
Last Christmas my brother-in-law gave me this great teapot planted with a beautiful green plant. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for me to kill the beautiful green plant. The leaves started dropping like it was fall and soon it was an ugly brown plant. I swear it was an accident and I assure you it wasn’t so I could make a cute birdhouse from the teapot.
I could have easily just nailed the teapot to the nearest tree but that would have been the shortest tutorial ever, so I decided to add a little oomph to my otherwise plain teapot.
First step was to get holes into the bottom of the pot. I’m assuming that none of my drillbits are for metal because they didn’t even dent the bottom. Had to resort to a more caveman effort of hammer and nail. Hey, whatever works.
My teapot needed a little house and what better house than wood salvaged from an old farm’s fence. I had tried to use these pieces before for the top of a stool but the wood was so warped that it made my stool wobbly (that’s why this side of the wood has a finish).
The fencing pieces were attached with a couple of L brackets screwed on the back.
This is the front of those wobbly pieces. Through the holes, I’ve marked where the screws are going to go and predrilled the holes.
Side pieces were cut from another piece of fencing, sawed in half with a 30 degree cut at the end. The length of the side pieces is about 1 1/2 inches longer than the back.
A roof piece was cut 2 inches wider than the whole little house. The roof piece is the full width of the fence board so that it overhangs the side pieces.
Attached all the pieces with a nail gun to hold everything together, then followed up with wood screws.
At the last minute I decided the house needed a base and tacked on a piece of pallet wood.
A couple of notes to make with this type of birdhouse. Since metal gets really hot in the sun put your house in a very shady spot high enough to keep predators away. And, if you have the lid to your teapot, attach the lid and drill a smaller hole. The smaller songbirds like a hole 1 1/4 – 1 1/2 inches. If none of the nesting birds like my house it may have to turn into a birdfeeder.
All ready for my first visitor. I figure if my little bird friends will make a nest in my stove exhaust pipe they’ll make a nest anywhere.
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This is terrific! Thank you for the very funny commentaries & what a great idea!
That’s so cute! I want one!
What a cute idea…love it! Thank you for sharing at Share it One More Time!
What an awesome birdhouse! Pinning.
Love it! You have fabulous ideas!
What I would do to get inside your head Joan – your creativity is mind blowing…seriously!
Absolutely LOVE this!! I’m such a sucker for a good bird feeder/bath project for the yard…thanks for linking up at Talk of the Town!
Sadie Seasongoods
Very cute! Look forward to seeing pics of your new residents. 🙂
I’ll definitely take pictures. I’m just waiting for my first tenant.
Oops, NOT SAFE for birds! Google what size entry hole must be for each type of bird. Must be big enough for mom, small enough to keep out predators!
Use it as a bird feeder!
Great point, if my birdhouse/ feeder came with a lid I would have used that to make a smaller hole. Thanks for the pointers.
but what about open nests they build themselves ? is there only one way ?
Very cute, what a great idea! Kelly
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Oh my goodness Joan! I love, love, love this bird house! What bird wouldn’t want to move right in?? Thank you so much for sharing this at the Bewitchin’ Projects Block Party last week. You are one of my Featured Picks tomorrow over at Recreated Designs and will be featured on the facebook page this coming Monday as well. Hugs, Lisa
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I usually don’t comment, but I wanted to let you know I enjoyed this idea. I seen this on my friends account last year and we made one. We noticed the birds didn’t seem to want to nest in it, and the opening on our pot is about the same as yours. So, we decided to turn it into a place to put some nesting materials for the birds. We put bits of twigs, moss, cotton fluff, and cotton string. All types of birds were picking from it, even hummingbirds!!! It was a really active little spot!! I just wanted to share this, I thought it might give you or someone else an extra idea for the use. Again, thanks for your great commentary and easy to follow instruction! It was great!!!
What a great idea. I may just have to steal your idea when I put my pot out this year. Thank you for taking the time to comment.
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