Making A Faux Concrete Wall

Loving this distressed look.

Making a faux concrete wall.

Just screw to your walls. Hello lovelies i have a diy project for you today. Traditional retaining walls tend to be drab and boring but faux rock brick stone and wood panels can fix that problem. The faux poured concrete finish on the walls of tali roth s apartment.

A few years ago i wrote about a distressed glazing technique which has a distressed feel to it a way we developed to add visual texture to your walls that doesn t like a stock rag rolling. In this video i demonstrate how i used a concrete finishing trowel and regular satin paint to create a concrete looking wall. It is a project i did in my bathroom and i am so happy and pleased with the look i created. Now you can achieve the sleek modern appeal of poured concrete walls without any of the mixing drying or heavy lifting.

Painting a faux concrete wall is easier than you might think and you don t need any special paints to get this effect. Photo by genevieve garruppo. It looks soft and contemporary i feel like it s abstract expressionism painted on the wall. Urbanconcrete lightweight faux concrete panels give you the sleek fresh and modern look of concrete walls with out any hassle.

The look is both soft and contemporary works well in urban environments and is still livable. Let me show you how i created my faux concrete wall finish in just 5 easy steps. It s unique every time and in this example we re. Our incredibly realistic u s made concrete faux wall panels are designed to give you that cool smooth calm of concrete surfaces at a fraction of the cost of real concrete.

Paint a faux concrete wall finish. To make fake rocks with concrete start by creating a wire form base with styrofoam or cardboard then wrap the base in chicken wire. Here we take this process one step further. Next use a flat pointed trowel to apply a layer of mortar to the wire frame working from the bottom up.

The added texture far exceeds what any luxury paint color can achieve similar to the effect of. Cladding a concrete retaining wall with the panel gives it the appearance of expensive traditional masonry but without all the costs and troubles associated with the real thing.