Staining a Concrete Patio

I’;m organizing to have a trellis created this summertime. It will sit on our patio and give us much required shade and serve as our sukkah in the fall. (How straightforward is that? Just add walls and sechach!)

But just before the work on the trellis can commence I had to do some thing with the ugly concrete that made up the patio. My initial option was to cover it with either brick pavers or teak decking tiles but the 2 of these came in more than $ 1,000 (ouch) and I wanted to do this inexpensively.

Here is what it looked like when the earlier proprietor lived here…

The surface was SO blotchy but it was in excellent form so stain was my answer.

I bought this concrete stain from Sherwin Williams…

I had them tint it a very dark gray. It was also considerably thicker that I liked so I extra a lot of water to get it to a nice consistency that was straightforward to spread. For less than $ forty my patio actually looks like new.

It was merely a matter of rolling it on with a thick roller pad.

It dries really quickly and now it appears so considerably smoother and newer, also.

A big table for entertaining was a need to and this one was on Craig’;s Listing…

A nearby guy developed 6 of these 8 foot tables for his wedding final October! It requirements a coat of gray stain to safeguard the wood—the contrast of rustic and sleek will appear excellent with the Urban chair from Ikea…

That was $ forty well invested!