How To Paint Patio Cement Floor

Learn how to paint concrete floors on your patio! This tutorial shows you how to transform your porch or patio with pigment!

Our patio was looking rather drab. I really wanted to paint the brick on our house simply oasis't been able to convince my husband it'southward a good idea. I did manage to get him to become with painted physical floors!

We went dorsum and along on whether or not to do a stenciled design and ultimately, for simplicity sake, went with stripes. Our patio is HUGE and doing a stencil design on the physical would have taken ages.

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Instead we were able to knock this projection out over a weekend and had the furniture dorsum in place past the post-obit calendar week (had to permit it all dry in Boiling Houston!). We really wanted to add some color back here, only didn't want information technology too decorated, so these stripes delivered! Here'southward how to pigment concrete floors on your patio and transform your porch with Pigment!

While we went with assuming colors and big thick stripes, you could easily customize this project to arrange your tastes and style! The Porch and Floor Paint we used is really high quality stuff (though at piddling pricey at $30 per can).

The stripes were super elementary to paint, but it did take a lot longer than I idea it would. Relatively speaking, it wasn't that long (merely a weekend project) simply I thought the base coat of white for example would only take an hour. Painting the physical (by myself!) took most three hours! My tip is to take your fourth dimension, and put on some good music or a podcast!

painted patio concrete and yellow back door

You also demand to factor in dry times. I like to let each coat dry out *at least* overnight (since nosotros live in such a humid climate). Ultimately it'due south your choice, but follow the instructions on the paint can for best results!

painted back door and patio concrete floor

I tried to use the "frail" Frogtape when it was time to add the stripes (thinking information technology was necessary since the base glaze was fresh) but it didn't work at all. The record wouldn't stick to the concrete and we didn't end upward having any problems with the regular Frogtape on the fresh paint.

Just look at those crisp, clean lines!
Here's how to get clean paint lines every. unmarried. time.

First painted your base coat.
Map out your design and put downward tape.
Next, pigment over those lines with the same color as the base of operations coat.
After that dries, add the next colour (in this case my blue stripes).
One time the paint dries remove the tape to reveal perfect, clean pigment lines.

This works so well because any of the "bleeding" volition be done in the aforementioned color equally your base and adding this extra bit of paint seals in the lines before y'all add the adjacent color!

close up of lines painted on patio concrete

To make clean our painted concrete patio, I move the rugs and smaller piece of furniture and hose off! In the high traffic areas I use the deck castor to scrub then rinse. Easy peasy! It has also held up well! It'due south been over six months since nosotros painted at the time of this writing, and there is nix scuffs or wearable!

Wanna run into what the patio looked like one time it was complete? Click here to see our painted concrete patio busy with new patio piece of furniture and our DIY Outdoor farmhouse table!

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