Making A Faux Concrete Wall

Photo by genevieve garruppo.

Making a faux concrete wall.

It is a project i did in my bathroom and i am so happy and pleased with the look i created. To make fake rocks with concrete start by creating a wire form base with styrofoam or cardboard then wrap the base in chicken wire. Just screw to your walls. Let me show you how i created my faux concrete wall finish in just 5 easy steps.

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Painting a faux concrete wall is easier than you might think and you don t need any special paints to get this effect. 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. Loving this distressed look. Apartment therapy has this cool technique to achieve this look.

Next use a flat pointed trowel to apply a layer of mortar to the wire frame working from the bottom up. Urbanconcrete lightweight faux concrete panels give you the sleek fresh and modern look of concrete walls with out any hassle. 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. Traditional retaining walls tend to be drab and boring but faux rock brick stone and wood panels can fix that problem.

It looks soft and contemporary i feel like it s abstract expressionism painted on the wall. Paint a faux concrete wall finish. In this video i demonstrate how i used a concrete finishing trowel and regular satin paint to create a concrete looking wall. Here we take this process one step further.

Now you can achieve the sleek modern appeal of poured concrete walls without any of the mixing drying or heavy lifting. The look is both soft and contemporary works well in urban environments and is still livable.