GO to my Profile + tap 🔗 + type “DIY Faux Concrete Planters” into the search bar. Over the years I have tried a variety of techniques to create faux concrete planters, from plaster of Paris to stucco, but the technique I repeatedly come back to is spray paint. It’s pretty quick, doesn’t easily come apart (like the plaster of Paris), and isn’t a pain to work with (like the stucco patch). One of the most viral summer tutorials on my blog was how to create DIY faux concrete planters. The plastic planters I DIYed looked identical to the real concrete planters that were going for over one hundred each. After years of them being out of stock, they were finally available again last year and IN GREY (last time they were brown which is why I painted them)!! But this time they sold out almost immediately. So I decided to try spray painting planters again, but with a slightly different technique. The original planters that I used had some texture so they only needed to be spray painted with gray paint (in a circular motion) to create the different gradients to make it look like concrete. This time I used shiny plastic planters, so spraying them grey would only make it look like a trash can, and nobody wants their plants to look like they are in the trash. So after some trial and error, I came up with a simple technique to turn smooth and shiny plastic planters into textured faux concrete planters. All of the details with extra tips and a step-by-step tutorial are in my blog post.