How To Add Color To White Cement

I cracked the lawmaking on how to color concrete and wanted to share the results with you guys! You tin utilize this technique to create any concrete DIY imaginable, but to brand things easy, lets outset with physical vases! Which, let's face up it, is simply an excuse for me to buy fresh flowers and do a little arranging. 🙂

Click through for the footstep by footstep process of making your own concrete vases AND learn how to color physical ANY color you tin dream upwards!

After figuring out how to dye plaster any color under the dominicus last year, a agglomeration of you asked why I didn't just use regular pigment. I explained why I couldn't do that hither. BUT it did become me thinking about physical projects and how information technology hypothetically should exist able to stand to paint being added in before pouring.

So, I thought I would give information technology a try. And it totally worked! Here'south how to make your ain…

Materials Needed

rapid setting cement mix (available on Amazon)
acrylic pigment
large (broad) mailing tube
small juice drinking glass (I used these -they're on sale)
cooking spray
2 buckets (that is okay to get messed up)
water
trowel or spoon for mixing
electric sander or sandpaper
gloves and mask

How to Add Color to Physical + Make a Two-Toned Concrete Vase

1. Starting time past cutting the mailing tube downwardly to size, if necessary. I used a saw to cut mine down to about ten inches loftier and made sure the end was capped off and the peak was uncapped (as shown in photo).

2. Spray the inside of a mailing tube with cooking spray and rub information technology around evenly in the side with a newspaper towel or rag. This will prevent the concrete from attaching to the mailing tube when setting.

three. Side by side, put on a mask and gloves and add the cement mix to a bucket. Stir in water co-ordinate to instructions on the packaging. Typically, you lot'll demand four parts cement to 1 part water. Mix well. If you want a two-toned expect like my vases, start by pouring some of that mixture into the mailing tube straight away, once mixed. If you desire the entire vase to be i color instead though, skip this step and motility to step 4, mixing all of the concrete mixture with pigment at once.

4. Apace add in the paint to the remaining mixture! Y'all have to move speedily for rapid sitting concrete because it sets up fast. I used acrylic pigment, which is a fleck thicker so it won't affect the consistency of the physical. It took more than paint than I was expecting… ii-4 ounces of paint for i physical vase like in size to mine. Y'all can add more or less paint based on the saturation you lot're hoping for.

3. And then, start pouring the colored physical mixture into the mailing tube. Fill up a little more halfway, then place the juice drinking glass inside the mailing tube. Press down so that the concrete starts to push upwards, surrounding the sides of the glass. So, continue adding concrete to the mailing tube, trying to avoid the juice glass opening (but getting in between the sides of the juice drinking glass).

5. Wait for the concrete to dry. If you lot're using a rapid setting concrete, it should be completely dry in a couple of hours (depending on the temperature, etc). Once dry, rip the container away to reveal your new vase.

6. Sand the bottom if needed so that the vase sits apartment. You can use an electrical sander or do information technology by hand with sandpaper.

7. Make sure the glass vase is gratis of debris (and dried physical), then fill up with water and add together flowers.

Think you'll giving this physical color project a try? I'd dear to know what y'all retrieve.

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