On Pinterest, everything revolves around concrete and in keeping with the topic we have some instructions for concrete flowerpot DIY for you. The optically modern material can be used for really every furnishing style and thus adorn the outdoor area together with beautiful plants and flowers. The great thing about this material is also that it is wonderfully easy to work with it, so that even beginners can dare to start the following projects. But just convince yourself and choose your favorite flower pot, which you then do. Have fun copying!
Make a triangular flower pot made of concrete yourself
- Concrete
- Cardboard or cardboard for the watering forms
- Template for the casting forms to print out
- Container for mixing the concrete
- Scissors or carpet knives
- Glue
- tape
- Gloves
- Optional golden color
How about if you make the concrete flower pot angular? In a triangular form, several pots can also be compiled into interesting and numerous variants. For the manufacture, you must first prepare the water shape. Print and cut them out, transfer them to the box and cut them out again. Fold on the areas provided for this purpose and glue the pages together until you get a triangular shape. Inside, provide the edges with adhesive tape to prevent the concrete from leaving. Tinker rings from thin cardboard strips, as to see in the picture and glue them inside the large triangle. In this way you will not only receive holes for drainage, but also openings for hanging. Finally, they have a large and a smaller shape.
Now mix the concrete and fill up the bottom of the large triangle to the level of the rings. The concrete should best be a little more fluid to be poured better. Now put the small triangle in and make sure that it is really in the middle. As a precaution, you can also fix it with adhesive tape from all three sides on the large triangle. Now pour the concrete between both triangles to create the side walls. With a toothpick, stick or ice cream, you can distribute the concrete evenly in the mold after watering.
Now let the material dry long enough. To avoid cracks, you should spray the concrete with water every day and cover with a plastic bag or film. Once the concrete is dried, remove the cardboard. Since concrete is very alkaline and this can have a negative impact on the plants, you can then put any concrete flower pot in water for a day. Then let the pots dry and you can plant them as desired. If you want, you can also paint and design them as desired.
Make spherical planters yourself
- Round balloons with any size
- quick -drying cement
- Rubber gloves
- Old metal sieve with hooks
- Mix container
- plastic bag
- old wash bowl
- 3 cotton swabs
- big sponge
- Plant
- Suitable potting soil for the plants you have chosen
Blow a balloon in the desired size. Keep in mind that the concrete flower pot afterwards gets a little larger due to the thickness of the concrete. Place the washing bowl with the plastic bag and fill a glass of water that you should have with a rag. Now mix the concrete in the container provided. Use gloves because you best use your hands to mix. Pour about 120 ml of water into the mixed container and gradually add cement until you get a viscous consistency that you can apply on the balloon without the concrete running. Try from time to time by rubbing in the balloon. If you are not satisfied with the consistency, simply remove the concrete, put it back in the container and add more water or cement depending on the necessity.
Hang the sieve into the wash bowl and gradually start covering the balloon on one side with the handicraft concrete. The area with the knot should remain free, because this becomes the opening of the concrete flower pot in which you plant the plants. This shouldn't be too small. If the concrete is to dry during work, just moisten it or your hands with water. Go over to the other half and try to create an even transition. If you need a break, you can put the balloon on the sponge.
Feplace a cotton swab and shape three drainage holes in the lower area (opposite the knot). Now let the balloon get hard on the sponge or sieve. But do not put it in the sun, because then the balloon can extend and burst. After about an hour to two hours you can burst and remove the balloon. Mix concrete again and reinforce the concrete flowerpot by distributing it inside and making the walls a little thicker. Do not accidentally close the holes! As soon as this concrete has dried, you can plant your plants.
Hanging variant in concrete look
- Color in concrete look
- Craft tone for the oven
- A thin rope
- Wooden beads
- Straw
- a plant and potting soil
- Optional: golden color or gold leaf and brush for the design of the pot
If you do not want to tinker with concrete, you can only imitate this modern material instead. An example of such a concrete flowerpot is this model made of craft tone. Roll out the sound until it has a thickness of about 6 to 12 mm. Then cut out the desired shapes. For the example from the example, you need three triangles about the size of the same size (you can cut out and use a paper or box template in advance).
The three sides for the concrete flowerpot now carefully attach them to each other by pressing the sides together and blurring the sound. In particular, it is important to avoid joints and create smooth transitions so that the future stews are waterproof. Now pierce a hole in each side with the straw, with the help of which youHang up the pots latercan. Place the shape like a pyramid on a baking sheet and bake according to the manufacturer's instructions.
As soon as the sound has cooled, you can design it with the color and create the modern concrete look. After the color has dried, you can design the concrete flowerpot as desired. In the example, gold leaf was used, but simple color is also suitable. Finally, tie the rope in any length on all three sides. At the top, where the three pieces meet, tie a knot and decorate it with a wooden bead that you can redesign with the color and the gold leaf beforehand. Plant the plant now and you're ready!
Homemade made of concrete materials-mini pots in a marble look
- Handicraft or fine concrete
- Concrete Farb pigment
- Color pigments for concrete
- Klorolle or alternatively short copper pipe pieces
- Any size and shape container as a watering shape
- Succulent
- Gloves
- Mix container
- Old spoon or other tools for stirring
With gloves, mix the concrete accordingly to the manufacturer's instructions. Remove any amount of it and color them in a different container with color pigment. Then add the non-colored concrete for colored and stir only a few times so that the marble effect is created. But you can also continue without coloring.
If you use the copper tube: Fill the watering shape for about two thirds with the concrete mixture and insert the copper tube in, but only so deep that it still exists a little over the edge of the container. Then fill the shape around the tube with concrete. If you don't want to use a pipe, simply take a toilet paper roll that you can remove later. Finally, knock the container on your work surface a few times to remove air bubbles. Leave the concrete dry and remove the toilet roll. However, the copper pipe remains in the concrete flowerpot. Plant the succulents in the resulting hole.
Idea for ombre effect
Instead of the marble effect, you can also choose an interesting ombre effect. In this case, you need two to four shades of a color, which you mix in two to four different containers. Then fill the first or three first nuances into the watering shape, add the tube or the roll and fill up with the second or the remaining two or fourth color. The subsequent steps are Dieglichen as for the marble effect.
In this way you can also produce large concrete planters for the garden. Then you only need a larger amount of concrete and of course a larger container in which you pour the concrete mixture and harden. Then you can decorate your entrance area, the terrace, the balcony or your garden with such an effective concrete flower pot.
Tinker with muffin
- quick-drying craft concrete
- Silicone or plastic muffin shapes
- Flash cover, tubes, cork or the like
- Copper spray color
- Antihaft-Backspray
- Never
- Stone as weights
How big the bottle lids or cork you need to make for the production of this concrete flower pot depends on the size of the muffin shapes you have chosen. The diameter of the lid, the tube or theCork to tinkerShould be about 2 cm smaller at the top and bottom to create a cavity for planting. Spray the molds with the back spray so that the pots can be removed more easily later.
Now mix the concrete in a mesh glass, for example. The mixture can be a little more fluid in order to be able to spread out better in the mold. Fill the muffin shapes about a third and then knock the shape on the table a few times to remove air bubbles and distribute the concrete well. Let the concrete dry, place the lids or cork on the middle and fill the shapes with concrete around it. So that the lids or cork stays on the spot, you can put small weights on it. For example, stones are well suited.
Let the concrete dry again, whereupon you turn the cork a few times to prevent you from sticking too firmly on the handicraft concrete. So you can be removed more easily later. As soon as each concrete flowerpot has dried, you can remove the lids or cork with the pliers, then also remove the potty from the molds and have it hardened for another 24 hours. Then you can wash with sponge and soap residues and, as soon as you have dried, paint them at will. In the example, copper spray paint was used, but of course you can also come up with something.
Tipp: If the holes for planting do not have flat edges and they would like to smooth them, or if the holes are not deep enough for them, they can also grind them.
