Easy methods to create designer search for much less DIY concrete planters with a fake end utilizing leftover impartial cans of spray paint.
This venture undoubtedly began out as a whim kind of factor.
Robert will let you know I’ve a leftover spray paint hoarding downside. I imply in the event you had been to stroll into our storage on any given day, you’ll discover a cupboard chock stuffed with half used cans of spray paint as a result of ya know… #DIYerProblems
Why throw out completely good spray paint whenever you may use it at some point on some random object?
Properly, enter stated random object: a few resin Walmart planters.
Since I did this rustic desk lamp makeover a couple of weeks in the past, I had some textured spray paint nonetheless in my stash.
So creating fake DIY concrete planters with the leftover paint appeared like the right answer to make use of it up whereas reaching a designer search for our entrance porch.
Fluted Concrete Planters Designer Inspiration
I don’t know in the event you’ve mosied round taking a look at planters on the excessive finish retailers’ websites recently, however Pottery Barn, Rejuvenation, Terrain, and West Elm all have these attractive fluted concrete planters that go for roughly $100-$300 every.
Then, I noticed these DIY fake stone planters Jenna Sue Design made which are completely gorgeous in the event you needed to try a extra genuine model. She made these hypertufa stone planters which are wonderful too.
Fake DIY Concrete Planters Utilizing Spray Paint
However for mine, I needed to try to make use of what I had within the spray paint stash.
Robert is so happy with me for dwindling my hoarding pile, by the way in which. (I did it, babe! Solely like 40 half used spray paint cans to go! Haha! Okay, I’m exaggerating perhaps a little bit.)
TIP 1: You’ll be able to adapt a wide selection of impartial paint colours you will have in your stash to suit this venture. Don’t really feel the necessity to purchase precisely what I used. A wide range of grey, beige, black, and tan spray paints (ideally flat sheen) in varied quantities can do the job.
TIP 2: This venture works finest with textured spray paint. Nevertheless, in the event you solely have flat paint, sprinkle sand onto the nonetheless moist freshly spray painted floor proper after the primary coat. Then, cowl the sand layer with a second coat of spray paint to realize the same texture of concrete.
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Steps
Step 1 – Prime
I did this venture on a heat, sunny day on some scrap cardboard as a drop material in our yard. Undoubtedly don’t try this one when it’s chilly or very humid exterior as the feel most definitely gained’t arrange accurately.
Spray one mild even coat of primer all around the exterior of the planter and let dry for correct paint adhesion.
Step 2 – Apply 1 Skinny Even Coat of Textured Gentle Grey Spray Paint
Sluggish and regular wins the race with spray paint. Apply spray paint in a sweeping movement, at all times shifting, barely overlapping your earlier go to create a skinny, even coat. Keep away from a thick coat to forestall dripping.
If you happen to’re not utilizing textured spray paint: Whereas your first coat of flat paint continues to be moist, mud the planter’s floor with silica sand till coated in a skinny layer. The primary coat of moist paint acts because the sand’s “glue”. Apply one other mild coat of sunshine grey spray paint to the sandy floor to cowl the sand with shade.
Step 3 – Apply Sporadic Uneven Coats of All Spray Paint Colours
Right here’s the place you may get a little bit “creative” together with your look. There may be actually no proper or fallacious method to do that step.
You don’t wish to paint your planters all one even shade as a result of that’s not the character of concrete. Actual concrete planters are splotchy with variations of sunshine grey, darkish grey, beige, tan, and black, and also you wish to mimic that pure look.
So begin by spraying a really mild, uneven, haphazard coat (nonetheless avoiding drips) of the second paint shade all around the planter, permitting a number of the first paint shade to peek via beneath. Repeat that very same uneven, haphazard portray course of with the third shade, the fourth shade, and so forth in the event you’re including extra.
The extra imperfect it’s, the higher as a result of concrete itself is imperfect.
Step 4 – Seal with Spar Urethane
As soon as the spray painted floor is 100% dry after a few hours, apply 2-3 mild, even coats of spray clear oil based mostly spar urethane to guard the paint from any moisture outside. Remember to enable every coat to fully dry earlier than making use of an extra coat of sealer.
The Completed Fake Concrete Planters
Not dangerous for utilizing up a bunch of paint leftovers, huh? (By the way in which, don’t overlook to come out the drainage holes to your flowers.)
If you must exit and purchase all of those supplies to make your DIY concrete planters from scratch, I don’t assume this venture could be extraordinarily value efficient.
However it’s nice whenever you solely want to purchase 2-3 venture provides to complement alongside supplies you have already got in your stash contemplating the worth of the true model.
Plus, it’s comparatively quick since mixing baggage of concrete, working with concrete round molds, and permitting correct dry time is a prolonged course of when doing the true factor.
You’ll be able to see extra small porch concepts on a price range right here to get warm-weather-ready. You’ll be able to see the way to misery painted outside planters and construct a window planter field right here too.
