Dundee Indoor/Outdoor White Round Planter

Room×Lab Review · Review updated September 28, 2026

Owners praise this white planter's clean look; the missing drainage hole is the recurring catch, and two report outdoor rust or cracking

Crate & Barrel's 4.7-star average covers 137 ratings and can include reviews not about this planter; it is not a count of owners. Room×Lab read the 116 distinct written reviews, dated 2018 to 2026. Most are short 5-star impressions of indoor use, often with a separately sold Dundee stand; few describe more than a few months. Several reviewers own two or three Dundee sizes, so size, weight or quality remarks may mix sizes. Stand assembly and bent-leg comments concern the stand, and three reviews are about store service, a stand's legs or pillows. The reviews below show typical praise, drainage workarounds and the only two outdoor failures.

Room×Lab rating: 7.1 out of 10 (limited confidence). Owners of this white planter consistently praise its clean look and light, easy-to-move iron build for indoor plants; Crate & Barrel's 137 ratings average 4.7 stars. The caveats: no drainage hole, one owner's report of outdoor rust and another's of winter cracking, and few reports beyond a few months.

• Clean white look wins praise, even from owners who marked it down: 39 favorable and 0 critical mentions of its clean, modern white look. — Owners call it clean, sleek, modern or mid-century and say the white sets off green plants in living rooms and offices. Descriptions of the color range from pure white to creamy or ceramic-like. Even owners who rated it down for rust or the missing drain still praise the look.
• No drainage hole is the main practical reservation: 7 favorable and 9 critical mentions across 13 reviews; three reviews count on both sides. — Owners work around the missing hole by using an inner nursery pot, drilling their own holes, or choosing low-water plants such as succulents. One owner warns that the inward-curving lip can trap a snug inner pot.
• Outdoor use: two failure reports, no long-term successes: 4 favorable and 2 critical mentions about outdoor use. — One owner reports fairly fast rust outdoors on this and a larger Dundee size. Another left the pot out through a Chicago winter despite the site's freeze warning; it cracked around the top, which they blame on water trapped inside. The favorable mentions (patio, balcony, two 'inside or out' remarks) give no duration.

Before buying

Owners like it as a light indoor cachepot with no drainage hole; measure your nursery pot's rim against the 8.75 in. listed opening. Outdoors, bring it in before freezing weather: one owner reports fairly fast rust and another winter cracking.

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