HIGH-END CONCRETE DIY DECOR - EXTRA LARGE CEMENT SPHERES (trying 4 methods)

[@ginacrusco234]

The "travertine" balls look great on your coffee table! Stroke of genius to distress them.

[@angeldmort]

Pro tip- if you let some of the air out of your yoga ball, stick a funnel in the hole and put a few cups of sand in it before blowing it back up, that adds movable weight to it, so it doesn't roll around when you are putting your cement on it.

[@Become-better-20]

Love how you show the struggle and allow yourself to be vulnerable. Makes me feel more normal as I attempt my own DIY projects. Thanks for your great content and ideas

[@amechealle5918]

Love this large cement orb idea! As far as your speaker ad,You may be cool with your friends using this speaker but you neighbors with kids or different sleeping patterns than yours are going to strongly dislike you. Just make sure none of your neighbors are vengeful people. P.S I made a smaller orb with an old globe I found in a thrift store. I used a similar tape but for drywall. When you put your first layer on instead of painting or troweling it on wear gloves and rub it into the tape, it grabs better. Four coats one day apart and then we decorated it with a mica colors /blue & green and made it a cement globe. I did seal it so it would last in the garden. P.S. if you do this with a paper/cardboard board (most globes) drill a hole so the cardboard paper can dry and won’t cave in.

[@lauriethomas1070]

My favorite by far was the one that looked like a ball of yarn. Really like the ones made from the glass globes too! All of them were very cool!

[@casa_refined]

Thanks Laurie! 😁

[@arthuroangeles7126]

@@casa_refined mmmpm mmm

[@ninajohnson3456]

Love this !!! What kind of tape did you use?

[@debralunnen3378]

I love everyone ! 100 years ago when I was a child I was involved with a summer camp we made the coolest sculpture that I have never forgotten what you do is you take a plane balloon you wanted a little bit to blow it up first so it’s maybe around the size of your glass smallest glass orb about that size when you blow it up but we didn’t blow it up well they did is they very carefully just took the balloon and put the opening just gently around a funnel the funnel then was filled with plaster of Paris that stuff drys very. MORE TO COME DEB

[@brendamatthews4435]

I HAVE to do this project. I took my 13yo son river rafting in Costa Rica in 1996 and the country is full of ancient stone spheres. People have them in their yards, fields, everywhere. They don't know the ancient purpose for the spheres. THANK YOU!

[@marilynodneal3221]

You are the undisputed sultan of cement!!! I am going to try three sizes using the fabric technique with lighter fabric. I might just leave the balls in the shell. Thanks so much!!

[@paminaturalhair]

The CEMENT SPHERES were my favorite. For the Christmas, Holidays add LED lights

[@danutat9915]

The larger ball's in your yard can be used as great extra seating...wonderful idea...

[@marthamurphy3913]

I love these. I would try tearing the towel/ fabric into 4 inch to 5 inch squares. Then cover the ball with one layer of squares, leaving gaps where necessary. Then cover the gaps with additional squares. It will give it a nice texture and avoid having the multiple layers of fabric at one end of the ball.

[@plantsoul1605]

The two "mistake" balls are my favorites! They came out so great!

[@kathlynblack3517]

The rope ball is my favorite. I can see having three of them, each painted a different color, like orange, lime green, and lilac purple!

[@vickiehadd4324]

ALSO WOULD BE COOL TO MACREME AROUND ONE THEN POUR CEMENT ON IT

[@heatherstonebridge]

Love all of these ideas 😱 I'm already addicted to the concrete spheres in the glass light globes. I pick them up when I see them in my area thrift stores. I put them in my my hosta plant garden and plant moss near them. It grows right up next to them and looks so cool. Thanks for all of the fabulous ideas☺️

[@thecorduroyboy]

this is so funny! i was just trying to figure out what to do with a non used fireplace that wasn't logs or a flat screen (cover) and i was googling this title over and over again with mixed results!

[@CincyBee50]

These Are Perfect!! We moved to FL last year. Drastically downsized into a Small, 1 story, stucco that kinda has a mid century modern look in front. I'm playing on that looks & had the bushes along the front pulled out. Designed a curved bed. The plan is a riverbed rock ground cover over plastic. Only 3 cuts for something live. Then use pots for plants, flowers. I Want Large Rocks. They are too expensive. So I will make them. I've been watching so many diy videos on it. THEN, you showed up on my page. These are perfect for my look. I might even say easier too. We'll see lol. Perfect for the clean MSM look. Well, a Modern, MSM, Florida Coastal, tropical look. I'm so excited.

[@sandratessier428]

They would make a nice water fountain.

[@rebekahschroeder7949]

Those were some huge projects! They turned out well. My favorites were the “travertine” orbs and the shot of them on your coffee table was 👌🏻. Thank you for these tutorials you do. I look forward to your videos. Keep them coming!

[@casa_refined]

Thanks Rebekah! I look forward to your sweet comments 😁

[@hissonshinegirl]

what portion of the video displayed the travertine you mention? THANK YOU

[@hebe4703]

@@hissonshinegirl From 15:53

[@robinshane4661]

I love your personality and the way you approach your art…..”this is just me, no retakes, no trying to be perfect.” I appreciate that let your viewers see the imperfections and the ooops that happened. I’m subscribing.

[@sheaysczerba2842]

I loved them all… especially #3 when you beat them up! ⭕️🌀🔘🟤

[@frostytheworldiscold]

I like the lamp shade method. These would be great in garden beds with smaller plants and grasses.

[@BusyBeeMaree]

I can appreciate how long this video took to make. I cannot choose my favorite as I loved them all but if I had to I actually liked the two smaller ones on the coffee table. I love your channel. Love your humor.

[@lawson56]

Loved these. Think I will make some of the beachball/rope orbs and stake them to the ground with landscape stakes so they don't fly away in the wind.

[@casa_refined]

You should definitely give it a try!

[@diannaslonecker1756]

The rope with spreading garden flowers put underneath to grown in and around the floor of the ball. Got my space picked out for my project.

[@lindacgrace2973]

The first, largest ball worked out the best, also I am also fond of (and will try) making the open-network-of-ropes sphere, as well.

[@kmh997]

The glass balls turned out pretty good, but I would have either used less cement and coated the inside a few times between drying - or- I might have just painted the outside of the globes and leave them galss. Maybe, I dunno. I have way too many inflatable balls I've collected for cement projects. Ha! Ha! I'm definitely going to try the rope one with twisted strands of cloth. I'll probably sew cloth strips together to make a long piece about 3"-4" wide to twist, or maybe I'll find some interesting ribbon-like material somewhere. Thanks for the inspo! ✌️😎 Do you ever try to make more refined pieces? I have a box of cement called feather finish, it's very fine, making sanding it to a polish easier. I saw it in a cement countertop video. I haven't tried it yet but I bought it for a mushroom art project. I plan to polish and stain/paint the oversized mushroom caps in earthy neutrals with splashes of dirty/dingy jewel colors. I don't do videos, but I might try a video for the mushroom project because I think it's going to turn out pretty awesome!

[@marvymaxee]

They’re all good but I think I like the small ones on your coffee table the best. Probably because I live in an apt and they’re the only kind I could use. 😊

[@madelinerivera7445]

Awesome!!! Love how "real" you are, no fakeness! The glass globe balls actually look really great!! Well done!

[@reginaboone4686]

Love them all. Favorite for me… the 2 light fixtures. ❤️

[@joachimsmith]

Have you considered creating a concrete snowman?

[@ansbach74]

I think they all turned out great. But if I had to choose the rope one I like the best. Thanks for sharing.

[@elizabethkelly5923]

I loved all these spheres. I have done similar forms, much smaller of course, with ceramic clay bodies. The stippling on your smaller glass created spheres is the most common finish I use. You showed that the possibilities/applications of these art pieces is limited only by geography and imagination. Sometimes thin walls struggle in extreme climate swings, just going thicker and dealing with the additional weight makes sense.

[@doveleboeuf6625]

You should've draped the towel over the ball, and let the edges just drape down til it started to dry and shaped the towel edges flavored out and used it for a planter to go with the orbs. Because the towel gets so heavy when you do your way. Check out some of the Asian videos, they make all kinds of cement pots orbs etc... I love the small ones you painted and the biggest one!!

[@deborahduthie4519]

With the towel ball, I was loving it after the first layer of towels with all of the gaps and was sure that some spagnam moss would take root. Or cake it in dirt and plant grass seeds on it. A ball of grass but the gaps look good. Have plants growing in and on it. All will save me big mon3y. Thanks for the tutorial

[@mikecote5159]

I think if you went with like first aid gauze instead of the towel that would be thinner and you could do several layers and I think that would look great for the texture of it and it would make a nice hard shell but be lighter weight

[@yourconnection9303]

I'm amazed again by everything with what you did with each project. They're each my favourite too, and I liked the glass ball better after you marked it up. I would also like to see how to clean up cement. And I like the Jazz music too. Thanks for sharing and teaching your creativity!👌😊

[@Tsuchikawa-Ishido]

I Think you did an excellent job with all of them. Least favorite was the one with the towel. The most favorite is the one with the rope.

[@varieta9466]

Jorge, FYI- I wonder if you could fill the space inside of the ball/globe with smashed paper or cloth or styrofoam pieces to occupy some volume. Ball will be less heavy, less cement, less something ..haha. ReStore has a bunch of old glass balls.. Hugs from this abuelita! ❤️👵🏻

[@BusinessButlers]

Jorge, I was so so looking forward to see you deflating and removing that yoga ball on camera since in my mind the way you used that cement bandage and the ridges of the ball, that was going to be a permanent part of the cement ball. I think had you chosen a yoga ball without ridges and then wrapped it in cling film or a big plastic bag before adding the bandages, it would have been easy/easier/possible to remove the yoga ball.

[@rallen9433]

Project 3 really was a good save and the pitted surface looked better than the smooth sphere. For project 4 you should have used cotton fabric don't you think?

[@drewjohnson4673]

On technique #4. Cut off the ends is the underneath overlaps to keep the weight down in one spot. You could also put the weight on the bottom once wrapped with twine. This keeps the weight from squashing the ball into an egg.

[@sdeaglefeather]

I think the open one is the prettiest and they all look good together 🤩 I knew that if anyone could do it you could. Thank you Mr 1-2-3

[@polarbearsrus6980]

The ones you thought you messed up are my favorites... but I love them all!

[@luigivincent3369]

By far the best way to do when making any of these balls . Once you get your first layer on then you need to apply or you can mix in fiberglass you can buy it and any thickness or fiberglass particles mix it in with the cement once dried will be solid strong

[@elzacreatif7511]

These turned out very well.

[@jennyirizarry4901]

my favorite r the very small ones used as decor luv ur chnl great DIY ideas

[@arielstarr8524]

Yes! Don’t stop making videos. I love your ideas!

[@marg716]

Love the variation in texture on the glass cast balls. Nice save.

[@Apeiria]

Loved this & your different ideas!!! I have a few suggestions that may help w/your future spheres. 1st since cracking is usually due to cement drying to fast, mist your scaffolding w/water before you start & after each application of cement. 2nd you were correct about using a lighter weight fabric. I've used old sheets & they're very inexpensive at 2nd hand shops:) 3rd really large plastic bowls from the dollar store make great scaffolding, cut a small hole in the bottom of 1 & tape them together w/a heavy duty tape (ie Gorilla). You can lightly oil the inside before hand w/cooking oil or Vaseline to help w/sticking. To give solid balls strength, use something like chicken wire either formed around a solid sphere or if pouring into a mold make a ball smaller than the 1 you're forming & suspended inside the form w/string, just like you can use tie-wire on the string ball to give it strength. So glad I found you today :):):)

[@judycrosley6442]

Wonderful!! My favorite is the 3rd one, the distressed ones you said you thought were a fail! I love them!♥️👍👏👏👍♥️

[@LilDirt12]

I love painting with my hands. The messier the more fun. I think the glass globes were my fav. But I definitely loved the first big yoga ball technique. Loved this. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@anikac8380]

Suggestion: with method #4 using the cement soap towel, try cutting the towel into orange peel sections. The same way you see some World max segmented like someone cut an orange in sixths Or eighths. Because the planets is a globe, displaying all the continents into dimensions would not give you an uninterrupted rectangle. It wouldn’t need to be precise, just roughly start with one and work your way around. I’m a bit Tom Sawyer is about projects, so I would take one edge of a towel at the“North Pole”, then tape the bottom edge to the “ South Pole “. If you know sewing, you then make a dart at the top. From the first corner where you taped it at the north pole, go a few inches along the top edge of your towel and pinch that, pull it in to your original north pole and pinch that and you’ll have a triangle of towel sticking up. That sharks fin of material is the excess you can snip away, starting from the bottom point of the triangle and moving up. Think of cutting off the sharks fin, following the line of the ball. If you wanted, you could whip stitch the seams shut enough to hold using button hole twist. That’s just the thicker, stronger thread used to attach buttons, especially for coats. You would need to Flip the piece and do the bottom, then drench everything with cement. I wouldn’t start with the cement until after the towels were fitted. I was wondering, would this project work well using papier-mâché? The techniques remind me of papier-mâché already. Would newspaper strips or gauze bandages work with the cement? Or making a huge papier-mâché ball, and when it isFinished, using that as the substructure to layer on cement?

[@rochellet7303]

Wow - the happy accident with the glass light fixtures looks amazing. They look so high end styled on the coffee table. I love the texture and look your hammer added to the finish.

[@foxdeer]

I found a large glass globe at the Restore and it took a whole bag of concrete so it was 80#. it turned out awesome but it definitely is staying in the spot it is sitting because it is so heavy. I have a large plastic globe that I want to cut in half and then tape together to make a mold so it is reusable. I was thinking I could add styrofoam to make it lighter or hypertufa.

[@user-qo3jh9mn1t]

This is magnificent! I can't wait to make one. I knew if I kept that damn ball I'd find something to use it for. Only took nine years. I was afraid I was going to have to start exercising. Also, I have to say your mistakes are more interesting than any perfect ones I've seen on other sites.

[@NoraDesmond897]

Hello, these are fabulous ideas. My least fave was the towel one. Could you use the cheaper balls you find in bargain stores? Like the ones Target has in cage bins during the summer months. Also, what is the reasoning behind the dismantling of the beach ball? Why can't it just be left inside. (Not the open weaved orb of course)

[@reedswillowdecor2528]

I love them all.

[@kimberleychristman9985]

Awesome I love the globe balls they look like the moon

[@darrenrenton3842]

Just a heads up brother, you can use wood glue PVA as a bonding agent also if you use dish detergent it will give you something like an aero bar effect but weakens the concrete significantly.

[@hettiekenny5185]

Well done, Jorge! You crushed it.

[@briza2022]

Thanks so much for the comparison. I was in doubt if I should go for beach ball or yoga, I surely go for the yoga ⭐👍

[@7834brace]

They look fabulous on your coffee table!!!

[@ScigerN]

Well done!! Please, make a how to clean after cement video 😘😘😘🙏

[@jobrownsmith116]

The rope one reminded me of bent twig. Super cool without the hard work of bending twigs, 😂. I'm in Canada and yrs ago Target had three or four big concrete balls in the front of the store. Then they said they were closing down. So wanted to buy them before they closed but knew I could never move them so 😬. Not sure whatever happen to them.

[@mamaj6028]

I like the natural look of the beach ball one. That's the one I would do. They are all nice, great job.

[@deborahjohnstone1688]

Love the textured balls!

[@kajnadams]

I've been trying to figure out a way to make balls to create some postmodern furniture! this should work! thanks!

[@frankvolz7021]

The 3rd project is actually my fav!

[@Nanner823]

I love balls and cement, can't wait to try these 🤭

[@Nanner823]

I already have a yoga ball, 5 below had them cheap.

[@MsDeanie1]

Love it!!!! Yesssss I was thinking the same thing. I would love to see you do the Crate & Barrel sphere planter dupe 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@Jane-yr2cg]

Genius! Impossible to pick a favorite! They are fabulous! I love the architectural design to them and the many ways to incorporate them into ones aesthetic! You are so talented and I love the way you create beautiful high end looking designs that are very affordable! Bravo!! ❤️😍🤩👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@casa_refined]

Thank you, I appreciate it! Glad you enjoy watching! 😁❤️

[@casa_refined]

Thank you, I appreciate it! Glad you enjoy watching! 😁❤️

[@darlenebaldwin1398]

They turned out great! 😊💖 We made a Spector years ago at Halloween and used cheese cloth with the cement mixture…it drapes well but it is light. A couple layers would do it…love the rope one but the variations look excellent together.

[@Amsbury]

Thank you, Jorge, for your willingness to share your experimentation. Personally, I have a tendency to jump into a project and not research it as much. Watching your video helped with that. Great job on all the projects!

[@jennifermcalchemy9816]

Distressed orbs look like moons. Love these ideas. Thank you!

[@richardesquibel8723]

Really liked the first three of the balls especiallly the one where you textured with claw of the hammer super sophisticated

[@mytokidaze]

OooOoo!! Those “travertine” orbs are on point!! They look amazing on your table!! I also love the one that looks like a giant ball of jute? I will be making one of those!! 😍

[@Cynsome1]

That “yarn ball” would look sweet with some lights inside.

[@jamee_maree]

YES!!! I also thought of some kind of way to put a candle down inside it. Could have the glow through out it…. OR add a flat bit of cement slap at the bottom, with the same holes on top so it could be used as a very high end firepit!

[@sassaasplund249]

Oh man, I can't believe you forgot to record the deflation of the yoga ball! That's the part I really wanted to see!!! How come you could deflate the yoga ball but not the beach ball? And was the yoga ball good to go again afterwards?

[@mystyclapton2493]

I was heartbroken that part wasn’t recorded. I need to see that part to know what to do! Thanks for an otherwise great intro.

[@lorrainebonilla8052]

you inspired me I'm definitely going to try and do two of the first option you did👍👏👏👏

[@jeanpe1040]

You are so talented!! I couldn’t wait to see this diy - lately I’ve been into the large spheres and just purchased them from Pottery Barn two of them for over $280 but I kept saying I can make these myself - after watching this I think I will give it a try

[@casa_refined]

Yay! You can definitely make them for less.

[@DownButNotOutYet]

Hi thee, all three shapes were nice you can select which you wish to use where. I have to agree they are not difficult to make, but you need the right mixture and time to smooth it out. Kind regards.

[@christinawillis2688]

I'll absolutely be doing the cement "rope" textured globes in varying sizes. I love the look of that one.

[@casa_refined]

Thank you, glad you love it!

[@Jb.art1]

Great job on all of them my fav was the rope one and the exercise ball!

[@jeanmeierbachtol6154]

Love these!

[@carolinalopez3648]

Admirable arte. Gracias Jorge por compartir tus experiencias.

[@OldLadyInFL]

Love the texture you made on the concrete balls. So much more interesting than just cement.

[@macym57]

14:56 I think it's Wabi Sabi, appreciating beauty in imperfection.

[@noadnie8210]

Sometimes I use wet soft brush to even out mortar, mostly because I'm not very skilled at using it, but also it's much faster than sanding it. Idk if it works with cement, but for the same reason I'd rather used some strong adhesive mortar for such project. Thank you for the inspiration! You're doing amazing job

[@iammedusa2600]

FABULOUS! I love when you work with cement. I love them all. TFS xoxo

[@BlondeLocs55]

Love this must try!

[@Mrosenblum1]

I certainly will try making some of the orbs. Great videos.

[@MsArtistwannabe]

Great job. Love these orbs.

[@EstelleCreativeDesigns]

OMG I'm EXCITED!!! Excitement satisfied I love number #1 & #3 the best.

[@casa_refined]

🎉🎉 thanks for watching!

[@vickyb9918]

Very cool. I like the little ones and the one with the strings. DIY planters would be great. Would love to see you make cement candle holders for poured candles.

[@cvonsutphen]

*Love* . The yoga ball and rope sphere are my favorites. I pick up glass shades at the re-store, super affordable at $1. Your cement projects are epic! Kudos.

[@SuperPiper27]

I appreciate the time you took to make these! I’ll prob skip the towel one but I will for sure try my hand at the other three!

[@LifeIsMessyImLearningAsIGrow]

Very nice ideas! Thank you for sharing. I can’t get enough crafting diy! Before I even finish one project I’m already off to Buy more supplies for the next one. Your creativity is inspiring! I’m inspired to make more and share more of my own content. Let’s learn more ideas like this from each other. Thank

[@casa_refined]

Thank you so much, glad you love my projects! ❤️

[@JeremyAntonL]

cool balls! lattice one is very sharp with the color and the final touch shine. Thanks Jorge!

[@casa_refined]

Thank you, glad you like them!

[@kristaself126]

Have you thought about making some cement Pot Risers? $50 for 3 is not in my budget. I was wondering how to make my own.

[@casa_refined]

Hopefully this gave you some ideas.

[@brookspa94]

I’ve seen them made… You wrap a cardboard box (the size you desire as a riser) in Saran Wrap, then make your cement mix & cover the wrapped box with it. When dry, pull out the box. Hope this helps.😊

[@mrsbspatterson]

I would love to see the string ball downsized for indoor styling. Great job!

[@susanlarmour]

Use a bowling ball, a playground ball, or a Styrofoam ball