Painting a cement porch.

Happy Friday Sweet Friends.

Hope your week is going well.

Today I wanted to post about how to paint a cement porch.

Here is an earlier picture in the summer of the front porch.  I forgot to take a before picture before we started to paint the porch.  You can see it is just a cement porch.   Stained from years of use.  

To paint the porch you will need to buy this bonding primer.  We cleaned the cement porch really well.  Then Terry applied this bonding primer.  This will seal the concrete and keep the paint from seeping into the cement.

Then we used porch paint.  It took two coats.  The paint went onto the cement and was smooth and looked really nice even after the first coat.

We taped off the steps where the siding and garden bricks were. If you look real close you can see a little photo bomber in the house looking out!

We also decided to paint the side porch on the house too.

I think painting the porch makes it brighter and prettier than the plain cement. 

The white porch now looks good with the white trim on the house.  It was a nice and easy fix to an ugly cement porch.  As you can see my flowers are starting to go into fall mode.  My petunia's were attacked with budworms this summer and that is why you cannot see anymore pretty flowers just the green of the plants.  I will be prepared next year for these buggers.  I literally went to bed and the next day all the petunias were eaten off the plants.  Since we are coming to the end of the season I was not going to get the bacteria you need to put on the plants to eat the bug worms.

Here is our previous home's porch after we painted it a light blue.

Then before we sold the house we decided to paint the porch to the same color as the shutters on the house.  Just felt this would sell better than the blue porch.

I would love to start some fall decor but my flowers are still hanging on to summer.  This weekend we are going to drop into the 50's and 60's which is below normal for us.  Hope we spring back to warmer temps after the weekend.

My rose bushes are still full of new buds ready to bloom.  The nice thing about these knockout roses they will continue to bloom until we get our first frost.  Hopefully that will not be until much later in the fall.

That is how you paint a porch.  Not hard to do at all.  Terry wants to fix the sidewalk in front and then we might paint that white too.
I hope in the next couple of weekends as it gets cooler to clean out some of my plants and flowers and begin some fall decor on the porch and flower boxes.  Hope to be back soon to show you that.

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Hugs and Happy Weekend.

Kris