Mixing Mosaic Grout

Video Transcript

"Our bookend has dried overnight and now I'm going to show you how to prepare the grout and to grout the bookend. To prepare the grout, just take some grout, as much as you think you'll need, and we'll add water and stir it up until it is in a buttery consistency. Now they do have in the hardware store, sometimes, a pre-mixed grout and you can try that. You just stir that up and if you put a little too much water in there you can add a little more grout powder until you get the right consistency. You don't want it to be too soupy like this, I'm going to add a little bit more. Now I'll just add a little more and stir it up. I'm looking for kind of a thick, almost a frosting consistency. Or as they say, a buttery consistency. And you want to mix that up real good. Now the grouts come in all different colors, this is a natural color. It usually dries later than the color you see here. They also have white, or you can buy white grout and put acrylic paints into it, mix the acrylic paints into it to give it the color that you want. So if you're looking for a blue color or green or any other color you can get that by mixing the acrylic colors into a white grout. Okay, it's getting thicker now."