Design your own plant pot around the space it lives in

Published 01 October 20267 min readAuthorNguyễn Lê Minh Bảo

A good-looking pot is not automatically the right one for how you want a space to feel. Designing your own starts from your own taste, colour and style, so the result actually connects with where it will stand — instead of settling for whatever ready-made model comes closest.

A self-designed pot on a wooden shelf, natural light filtering through a sheer curtain. — Designing your own pot makes for something that carries your mark.

Settle on a style before you start designing

Before you design anything, decide what style you want the pot to carry. A minimal room suits neutral colours and clean lines; a room leaning natural sits well with terracotta, green tones or leaf-inspired patterns. Looking at what is already in the room — the desk, the lamp, a tray, a print — is a simple way to find a palette without starting from scratch.

Designing it yourself does not mean making something elaborate. A plain pot that fits the whole room is often more refined, and easier to live with, than a busy one.

A moss-green glaze pot beside a window in soft morning light. — Inspiration for a self-designed pot usually starts with the room's own colour and mood.

Choosing colour and pattern for a personalised pot

Colour and pattern are the easiest way to create difference without changing the shape at all. If the room already has plenty of colour, a neutral body with a small accent pattern usually works better; if the room is fairly plain, a bold colour or a distinctive pattern can become the detail people notice. The trick is to picture the design in its real setting — the desk, the shelf, the corner — rather than judging a colour or pattern in isolation, since something that looks great on its own is not always right once it is in place.

A close-up of the pattern on the pot's rim, light catching the texture of the glaze. — A personalised pot shows its owner through colour and pattern.

Design around the space that will actually use it

A good design works best when it fits where it actually stands. On a busy desk, a made-to-order pot needs to account for both size and placement — something small beside the monitor or on a low shelf takes up little room, and a neutral colour tends to sit more easily with different desk styles than a loud pattern.

In a living room, on a bookshelf, on a balcony or in a bigger decorative corner, a custom pot can follow the style of the whole space — think about the wall colour, the furniture and the other decor pieces around it, rather than picking a design just because it caught your eye.

A compact pot beside a laptop on a tidy desk. — A made-to-order pot adds character to a desk without crowding it.

A custom-designed pot in a living room, in step with the sofa and the rug. — A custom pot sits in step with the furniture and the room around it.

A custom pot does not need to be elaborate

"Custom" tends to suggest something elaborate, but what matters more is that the design actually reflects the person using it. You can keep a familiar shape and just change the colour or pattern, or combine a few small details into something new — either way, what counts is whether the pot truly fits the plant, the room and the person living with it.

A minimal pot with one small personal detail on its side. — A custom pot can stand out through a simple design and one personal touch.

UniPot turns the idea into the pot itself

Designing your own pot means more when you are actually part of making it, not just picking from a shelf. That is the direction UniPot takes: rather than only offering pots to choose from, the studio walks you through the idea, lets you try colours and patterns, and finishes with something genuinely personal — a made-to-order pot, a custom design, whatever the moment calls for.

Open UniPot and start designing the pot that matches your own style.

The UniPot design studio interface, with a glaze palette and pot shapes to choose from. — Design your own pot with UniPot's studio and give it a style all its own.