Do you have vases around your house that you don’t love anymore? I certainly do. I had been wanting to paint one of the vases I have for a while now and finally did it! I loved the shape of the vase, it just felt a little beachy for my style.
Mixing baking soda into paint gives the paint a more matte and textured finish when it dries, leaving it looking more like ceramic! Since I already had a vase I wanted to paint I figured I might as well try this method. I love vases that look textured and earthy – which is exactly the look I was going for with this vase.
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This vase from Pottery Barn was my inspiration for the faux ceramic piece I wanted to create!
What You’ll Need
- 1 cup of paint (flat/matte finish preferred)
- 1/4 cup baking soda
- Paint brush (a stiff brush if you’d like texture/lines to show through on the finished product)
- Tray/cup/plate to mix the paint
- Vase of choice
- Newspaper or cardboard to paint the vase on
The Process
I have a plethora of leftover paint and paint samples from previous projects so I went to my stash and chose a color that I wanted the vase to be – Alabaster by Sherwin Williams, in a flat finish. I went with a creamy white color because I wanted the vase to look as much like my inspiration vase as possible.
I poured roughly 1 cup of paint into a recyclable food storage container. Then mixed 1/4 cup of baking soda into the paint – using my paint brush to stir the mixture.
I set the vase upside down on packing paper on my dining table to paint it. Upside down is key because you can start with the bottom of the vase to get your technique down (if you want extra texture you can purposefully leave brush marks and other markings), leaving the top and lip of the vase for last. Once I painted the bottom of the vase and it had dried I flipped the vase over and painted the top half of the vase. It took about 15 minutes total to paint and about 4 hours until it was completely dried and cured.
Once it was dried it really felt like it ceramic! You cannot tell it was once a glass vase. I was very happy with how it turned out!
