DIY Marble Planter Upcycle

Take these basic black planters to the next level with a step by step tutorial using paint with a DIY water marbling technique for a marble planter.

Have you noticed planters are expensive?! Home Depot has pretty inexpensive plastic ones, but they look pretty plastic. This tutorial will show you how to make it look a little less plastic. This is a simple way to create a marble planter without paying marble planter money.

What you need for your marble planter

• Planter
• Spray paint (I have found glossy paint works better than the matte finish!)
• A large tub of water
• Gold acrylic paint

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I started by spraying the planter black. It was black, but I don’t like the finish of plastic so I did a matte black to change the finish.

Fill your tub with water if it’s not filled already. You don’t need to too deep. I had about 4 inches of water.

Spray a light coat of the contrasting paint color in the water. You can always add spray paint but can’t take it out!

Take a small straw or stick and drag it through the paint so it starts swirling a bit.

Dip your planter in the paint and lift it straight up. I did this twice on each side.

After letting it dry I used acrylic paint to paint the rim. It was still obvious it was plastic to me so I painted the rim to hid that a bit.

At that point I was all done! It was so simple but i feel like it looks much better than just the plain plastic.