Weekend DIY Project: Easy-To-Make Concrete Bowl

We love mixing textures when adding new style elements into our homes. Woven baskets, patterned textiles, and clean ceramic dishes all complement each other. And our latest obsession? Concrete.

For this project, we're featuring an easy-to-make concrete bowl. We love styling it on a coffee table or on open shelving. Keep glass or wood beads, found stones, and other decorative items in this eye-catching shallow shaped bowl.

Melissa Fenlon

Melissa Fenlon

Step 1

Pour the concrete mix into a bucket and start adding water a little at a time. Stir and keep adding water until you get a thick cake batter-like consistency.

Melissa Fenlon

Step 2

Coat the inside of your larger bowl with oil. Coat the outside of a smaller bowl with oil as well. This helps make it easier to pop out the concrete piece once it's dry.

Melissa Fenlon

Step 3

Time to make your bowl! Spoon concrete into the bottom of your big bowl, half full. Then place your smaller bowl into the bottom center of the big bowl and push down. Tap the bottom and sides of the big bowl to agitate the concrete, getting rid of air holes. Smooth out the rim of concrete with a spoon or your finger. The smoother you get it now, the less you'll have to sand it down once dry.

Melissa Fenlon

Step 4

Place large rocks into the smaller bowl to weigh it down and keep it level while drying. Give the concrete 24 to 48 hours to dry. You'll see the concrete lighten in color as it dries.

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Step 5

Once the concrete is light grey and dry to the touch, remove the plastic bowls. Now you can sand the bowl to smooth it out.

Melissa Fenlon

Melissa Fenlon

Ready for styling!

Melissa Fenlon