Herb planter

There is one sunny spot in my house... directly underneath the bay window in my living room. I've always wanted to have fresh herbs, and figured if they're going to grow anywhere in my place, it'll be here. I originally was planning on making a single trough-style planter, but didn't want to deal with the hassle of having some sort of drainage tray, and also thought it would be cool to have it be a little more customizable even after I'd planted my herbs. So I had the idea to make removable planter boxes to put in it.



I was at the hardware store buying some supplies when I got a few planks of cheap knotty pine. After about a half hour in the workshop, I made this:



It looked way too clean to me, and it's really hard pairing raw pine with another wood, such as the table it'd eventually be going on. So I beat it up a little bit with a chain and a pipe, just to put some dings in it, and put some cracks in the edges. Then I gave it a light rub of stain, some finish, and got this:



I used my last plank of pine to make the planter boxes. After some spraypaint and some finish, I got these:



$18 worth of lumber later, the finished product:



Another way to arrange the boxes:



With the herbs:



I put in some old nails for detail: