Master Class: Concrete Accessories With Your Hands

Who said that it is difficult to work with concrete? Expert Swedish Elle Decoration Helena Nord assures: Create stylish concrete accessories at home - easier than a simple!

Concrete is the most fashionable material of the last few years. It is actively used by architects, and subject designers, and designers specializing in lamps and decorators. For a long time, he was considered a purely functional building material, but in recent years the design world reiterated his brutal beauty for himself. And today, concrete is a popular decorative material, from which you can even independently make stylish accessories for the house.

"Working with concrete is terribly nice. You seem to come back in childhood again, you sit in the sandbox and you are ledming the kulichiki and "pies," says Stylist Helena Nord. - It is very difficult to stop with him. It is worth starting something to do - and I want to experiment again and again. "

The most interesting thing in concrete is that it easily takes any shape, and beautiful forms around the set. Therefore, it is possible to experiment forever. We offer to make beautiful concrete accessories, using plastic children's balls as a form (such a dry pool is filled) and a conventional plastic tray, which is found in the kitchen at each housewife.

What do you need:

• Respirator and gloves
• water
• Dry concrete mix (grain size no more than 4 mm)
• vegetable oil
• bucket
• mixer

For the manufacture of a concrete ball:

• Plastic toy balls or balls (from toy store)
• Ryumka for egg
• Confectionery bag (you can construct yourself from the package)
• scissors

For making tray:

• Plastic tray or dish
• knife
• oilcloth
• polyethylene film
• sandpaper

Put the plastic tray to the bottom on the bottom on a flat surface, pre-covered with a glued. Lubricate the surface with vegetable oil (so that the concrete is easier separated from the form when dried).

Mix the dry concrete mixture with water until you receive a consistency of thick dough.

That's this.

Apply concrete with a blade on a plastic tray: the layer thickness should be about 2 cm. Be sure to crush it so that the surface is turned out to be smooth and without air bubbles. After that, cover on top of the plastic film and leave for two days to stick.

When concrete dry and hardens, separate it from the form with a knife.

Treat uneven edges with knife and sandpaper.

Beautiful concrete accessory is ready!