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Stained Concrete Porch Ideas

Think of your front porch as the face of your home. Improve your curb appeal or simply update your house with a quick concrete makeover!

Our brilliant DIYers spruced up the front of their homes with the help of acid stain, Antiquing Stain™, and more.  We hope you can soak up this inspiration to perform your very own concrete porch facelift!

Trust the Process

This DC customer dressed up their back patio and concrete front porch with acid stain. Since the home was a new construction less than two years old, they made it a point to seal their concrete afterward. Amazing things can happen when you trust the DIY process!

Acid stained concrete porch floors
Acid stained concrete porch floors
Acid stained concrete porch floors
Porch was done with Malayan buff and then diluted Cola, wet on dry, Cola was also spread out with a broom for a mottled look.
Acid stained concrete porch floors
Malayan buff and diluted Cola EverStain acid stained concrete floor

Project Info:

  • Project Completed In: 3 day(s)
  • Estimate of Square Footage: 300 sq. ft.
  • Project Description:
    We stained our back patio plus front porch in one project. Our house was a new construction built less than 2 years ago and concrete was not sealed. Concrete blankets were used during curing process which left some marks on concrete that we didn’t like but they took stain nicely.

Personal Tips:
Make sure you use sprayer with plastic nozzle, acid reacts with metal.

Cover rocks in your landscape as they may have lime in them and can get stained.

Plastic will not stain but wipe it off right away so it is easier to clean up.

Have a bucket close to you sprayer so you can put a nozzle in it as those things tend yo drip or spray after you stopped the trigger.

Trust the process, concrete will look dull and patchy until washing step.

You can still scrub some finish with the broom and baking soda water at that point.

Then let it dry f or a day before sealing.

  • Direct Colors Products Used:
    Malayan buff and Azure, wet on wet on the patio. Then Cola wet on dry, slightly diluted with water and ‘broomed’ over.

Porch was done with Malayan buff and then diluted Cola, wet on dry, Cola was also spread out with a broom for a mottled look. Both neutralized after about 22 hours, washed and left to dry for a day before sealer.
Other Products Used:
Foundation Armor ax25 pool deck and patio sealer (high gloss, with wet look).

Malayan Buff EverStain Swatch
EverStain™ Malayan Buff
Cola EverStain Swatch
EverStain™ Cola
EasySeal Satin
EasySeal™ Satin

Creative Address Approach

We love the creativity of this DIY permanent address! Several colors of acid stain were used to makeover this picturesque concrete porch.

front porch plain concrete floor
Before the point of no return
Front porch concrete address design
House number floor design
grinding stencil on concrete floor
Circular saw, 4" grinder and ton of wrong cuts
concrete stencil cut design
Black, Coffee Brown, Desert Amber and Malayan Buff DecoGel acid stains
Black, Coffee Brown, Desert Amber and Malayan Buff DecoGel acid stains
Adding mortar
Adding mortar
acid stained concrete
Acid stained concrete front porch

Making a House Look Like a Home

You can give the front of your home a cohesive look with concrete stain! The concrete front porch, steps, and accompanying front border were all tied together by cola concrete stain. What a warm, homey look!

Acid stained concrete front porch
Cola EverStain acid stained concrete front porch
Acid stained concrete front porch
Cola EverStain and EasySeal satin

Front Porch Facelift

No need to do something drastic to your front porch. As you can see here, even subtle, neutral colors such as beige concrete stain can make a big impact!

Concrete front porch floor
Before
refinished front porch concrete floor
Refinished front porch with Khaki EasyTint

Project Info:

  • Project Completed In: 3 day(s)
  • Estimate of Square Footage: 550 sq. ft.
  • Project Description:
    Sealed with colored sealer our lanai at the back of the house and a slab we had poured that connected to the lanai and our front porch. All with two coats of the Khaki easy coat tinted sealer and a third/top coat of clear easy coat sealer on top.
  • Personal Tips:
    If using a pump sprayer have someone else use a roller for a fast and even application. Our sprayer stopped working well and we simply rolled wich worked fine. We went up and down and back and forth. Multiple very light coats seemed to be the best way to apply.It was our first time using a sealer and we are used to paints and or epoxy so it seemed to us very uneven and it highlighted imperfections in the concrete but as it dried it evened out and looked good. The surface is much better now than before and it’s a very usable and enjoyable patio now.

Direct Colors Products Used:
Khaki Satin Easy coat tinted sealer and, Easy Seal Satin.

Khaki Antiquing Swatch
Antiquing™ Khaki
EasySeal Satin
EasySeal™ Satin
Slip Resistant Additive
Slip Resistant Additive

Correct That Concrete Color

When purchasing a new home, you may not be able to live with the stain color that the former owner chose! This DC customer strongly disliked the pink-orange hue of their porch, steps, and walkway. They performed a color stain correction with charcoal tinted concrete sealer, and we think it came out great!

Faded Residential Concrete Walkway Porch
Before
Stained Residential Walkway with Light Charcoal over Old Pink
After Light Charcoal EasyTint colored concrete sealer
Pinkish orange stamped concrete walkway
Before
Light Charcoal EasyTint over pinkish orange concrete floor
EasyTint Light Charcoal
EasyTint Light Charcoal
EasySeal Satin
EasySeal™ Satin

Beautiful Broom Finish

Cafe Royale was the perfect choice for this entryway. It almost makes the walkway glow, and it seems like this color couldn’t complement the house any better! Add in the beauty of the broom finish texture, and you’ve got a home run.

Cafe royale Antiquing stain on broom finished concrete porch entryway
Cafe royale Antiquing stain on broom finished concrete porch entryway
Cafe royale Antiquing stain on broomed concrete walkway
Cafe royale Antiquing stain on broomed concrete walkway
Cafe Royale Antiquing Swatch
Antiquing™ Cafe Royale
EasySeal Satin
EasySeal™ Satin

Multicolor Stained Concrete Pavers

Since the concrete paver driveway is directly in front of this front porch, it only made sense to tie them together! This DIYer chose a multicolored design to make the driveway pavers and porch a better match. What a nice earthy blend of paver stain colors!

Faded Stamped Concrete Patio
Multicolor paver design
Multicolored paver driveway, featuring a beautiful color design created with Aztec Brown, Driftwood, Khaki, Yukon Gold, and Terracotta concrete stain
Multicolored paver driveway, featuring a beautiful and earthy multicolored paver driveway with an earthy brown color design, achieved with the use of Aztec Brown, Driftwood, Khaki, Terracotta, and Yukon Gold Portico Stains on concrete pavers.
Portico Yukon Gold Concrete Paver Stain
Portico™ Yukon Gold
Portico Driftwood Concrete Paver Stain
Portico™ Driftwood
Aztec Brown Portico Swatch
Portico™ Aztec Brown
Portico Terracotta
Portico™ Terracotta
Khaki Portico Swatch
Portico™ Khaki
EasySeal Satin
EasySeal™ Satin
Faded stamped concrete walkway
Before
stained stamped concrete walkway entry
After 3 light coats of Driftwood Antiquing stain and Easyseal satin sealer