Create Extra Storage Disguised As Stunning Decor With This Pizza Pan Planter Hack

Finding space in your home to store items can be tricky. Once your closest, cupboards, drawers, and pantries are full, you have to get creative with where you hide unused toys, blankets, accessories, and even clothing. Storage tubs are great if you have room in the garage or a shed to keep them in, but leaving plastic tubs out can throw off your aesthetic and make your home look cluttered. So where do you stash items you want easy access to, but don't want littering your floors, furniture, and garden? Why not throw them in a giant decorative plant pot and cover them with a pizza pan to create a budget-friendly, stylish side table that doubles as storage?

Whether you like the idea of storage with dual functionality, or you just have some large, unused planters lying around, this clever home hack will give you a place to hide items that aren't in use or serving a purpose. It also doubles as a surface to keep knick-knacks or ornaments, or display your favorite accessories with style, and you can incorporate these DIY side tables inside, outside, or in multiple locations throughout your home! You only need two items to recreate it: A large plant pot and a pizza pan.

In order to fit these two differing pieces together to make one unit, you want to find sizes that correspond with one another. Both found at Walmart, the Brown Resin Walmart Planter ($22.98) with a 15.7" diameter can align with a 16" Mainstays Pizza Pan ($5.97), allowing the latter to fit flush and make a flat table-top where you can add personalized decor. If you want to source other pots and pans, just make sure the top dimension of the planter can fit your pizza pan, measuring by the smaller dimension at the bottom of the pan. You can even pick up your "lid" before heading to the gardening section to find your pot. Look for fun or chic planters so they can pass as interior decor should you choose to use this trick indoors, too.

To make the pizza pan look more like a tabletop, you can spray paint it to match your interior aesthetic, or just stick with a matte black shade that will work with a variety of planter designs. Let the pan fully dry, then add whatever items you want to store inside before placing it on top. Use the flat surface to display plants, frames, candles, or other lamps so that the planter is transformed from an outdoor piece to a side table that works anywhere within your home. You can keep everything from blankets and pillows to outdoor toys in it, and no one will be the wiser to your clever storage hack.