DIY Painted Patio Tile | Apartment Therapy

Al fresco meals and entertaining simply aren’t the identical with out the proper patio or deck. Even when the solar is out, it may be onerous to disregard an disagreeable out of doors house. However turning an overgrown patchy yard or boring, cement slab of a patio into one thing spectacular takes quite a lot of time—and cash.

However that wasn’t sufficient to cease Wendy Gilmour of Thankfifi, who reduce prices with out sacrificing model by skipping over the professionals and taking this out of doors house mission into her personal palms. “The patio is the one space of my dwelling the place I simply felt utterly uninspired to spend any time,” she says. “It’s a sea of lifeless grey concrete slabs.” Changing them altogether would price approach greater than Wendy was keen to spend, so she got here up with a intelligent low-cost answer.

In an effort to up the ante of her out of doors house with out hurting her pockets, Wendy turned to portray her personal tiles. The primary spherical didn’t go as deliberate: “I stumbled upon the concept of portray the concrete tiles final summer season, however with the fallacious paint,” Wendy says. “Sadly, the design I spent days engaged on merely washed away within the rain. Heartbreaking.” This time, she made certain to get the right paint, and selected a geometrical stencil to create a press release design.

Wendy chosen masonry paint for her second go-round, and select an elegant black and white palette—particularly Sandtex’s Pure Good White and Sandtex’s Black. Then, to get that dazzling star impact completely centered on every tile, she used a Kallat Tile Stencil from Dizzy Duck Designs. The consequence? Tiles that appear to be they have been customized made. “We accomplished the complete mission ourselves (in lockdown), thankfully with out setbacks or surprises, apart from maybe that this time the paint held quick within the rain,” Wendy says. She believes the important thing this time round was pressure-washing and deep cleansing the cement tiles earlier than portray, and utilizing the suitable kind of paint. Inside roughly 10 hours of labor, and by spending simply $150, she revived her patio.

The icing on the cake is the added decor that takes it from a cool patio to at least one with a mega wow issue. To take a seat on prime of her geometric “rug,” Wendy chosen a dwell edge wooden desk from Gibson Bespoke Carpentry with industrial legs from The Hairpin Leg Co.; she styled Lene Bjerre chairs from Houseology round it. The setup is fashionable, fashionable, and prepared for all the most effective out of doors meals and conversations hotter climate has to supply.

“I really feel like this space of the patio makes an actual assertion now—dressed with the furnishings I simply find it irresistible,” Wendy says. “It’s tremendous simple to wash; I simply hose it down and the painted design does look virtually like actual tiles however for a fraction of the value.”

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