Planter is one of the objects that adorn your balcony, terrace, or any corner of your home. Unique DIY projects can also count in these objects. Combining these two concepts will provide you a nice-looking decoration good. Today, we are going to make cool DIY concrete hand planters. Firstly, we list what you need. Secondly, we give place to points to consider. Lastly, we introduce how do you do it yourself concrete hand planters.
Required Materials
First of all, to protect yourself from any dust you should wear a mask and goggles and garden type gloves. We can start by completing the required material. You will need the material below:
- Mask, gloves, and goggles to protect yourself
- A bag of cement or rapid set cement
- Plastic gloves to stuff cement
How to do?
After you wear your protective equipment, you can start to create your unique concrete hand planters. In the first step, you should prepare concrete. There are two options to have concrete. The first one is that you can use rapid set cement that will be easier to complete your project. The second one is that you can produce your own concrete by using dry cement and rocks. That is, the second option will outcome better results because ready to use concrete includes bigger rocks. To clarify, this results in a refractile and unstable planter hand.
Once your concrete ready, you can kindly stuff concrete into plastic gloves. After that, you do this step, stand nicely your filled glove night long, and wait until you are sure that it is dried. If you are sure that is dried, you can strip gloves out and your planter is ready to furnish your home. Such that, you can use your DIY concrete hand planters as raw. In addition to that, you can paint it with the proper color.
Completed Projects
So, there are lots of examples with raw and colored hand planter.
images via: Dalsgaard i Skivholme, Amora Mjardins, Justas Lu, SIND studio
