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GregJ7•

It looks nice. I want to put something similar into my dining room. My concern is mainly keeping the plants dusted.

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mklauberOP•

The plants are individually potted so they're easy to pull down without having to take the whole thing down. wrt live plants we'll see how they do, but neither of us has a green thumb, so they're more of an experiment anyway.

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DjangoBaggins•

Dusting plants is important for house plants, and this does look to make that very difficult. I dont see this working for long unless they want to keep repotting plants, would have done alright if it was attached to a sunroof so to speak.

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GregJ7•

I was thinking in terms of dusting plastic "plants." If I used actual plants, they'd be dead within a month. Even if that weren't true, I'd need to be able to lower the whole thing easily to check and work on the soil.

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petrprie•

That is super cool. I'm always looking for places to put my growing plant collection.

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mklauberOP•

As mentioned elsewhere, it's not the best place for live plants, since there's very little light and it's not the easiest to water. But if you had a skylight or well lit room, it could work well. Especially if you had an easy way to lower it. (Maybe ropes and pulleys instead of chain.) But I do think it looks really good, so if you decide to try to recreate it, best of luck to you.

Thanks for the kind words!

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petrprie•

I was thinking pothos or other low light plants. Although building a medieval looking pulley system is enticing jkjk

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