45 Easy and Creative Ideas to Create a Charming Vintage Garden

13. Paint some old wooden crates and fill them with vintage wonders like plants, books, and birdcages.

Much like vintage windows and vintage birdcages, old shutters have a significant moment in the home decorating world. While they are often pictured being used to display photos or indoor window coverings, vintage shutters can be used throughout the garden to mount window-boxes full of gorgeous annuals. Suppose you don’t want to risk water damage to your siding through traditional window boxes. Why not put some beautiful old distressed shutters on your fence, shed, or just partially buried in the ground and mount some lightweight, moss-filled window-boxes to them for a cottage garden look?