I am building out my basement and I wanted to create a small wine cellar with stone walls. I now know how I am going to afford it. I just have to keep a secret until I'm finished.
I've done these before! Pretty much same technique featured here. Always love the projects that look fantastic and are super easy to do, haha. One piece of advice I was given on this kind of project was to paint the odd stone here and there a slightly different base colour before adding all the weathering and other effects. Breaking up the uniformity helps sell the effect that the wall is, well, cobbled together out of random stones.
This is the video I've been looking for. Nothing else has hit the mark for the combination of visual appeal, ability to replicate, and lightweight. Really appreciate this one.
QUESTION>>>> I've designed a 12' in diameter hobbit type tree for the outside entrance to my new enchanted forest cottage I'm building this April in the woods however my question is "what would be the best way to protect the foam and cement outer structure for long Gevity and wear and of course climates all 4 seasons are in effect throughout the year. my thought is marine paint but I wanted to ask you first
This is an amazing tutorial! I’m trying this myself with my scraps myself to make a 90 degree wall to hide my projector! Quick question, what material would be best for what I glue my stones onto that’s more weatherproof and sturdy than cardboard?
That looks incredible! Very realistic. Unless someone walked up and touched it, you would never know it was foam. Unfortunately when it comes to the price, after pricing out some foam, I am not sure anymore that making the wall out of foam is much cheaper than busting up some rocks. Even rocks are stupidly priced. Where I am from, people have even started trying to sell those big piles of rocks that farmers used to pile off to the side of their field and were grateful to anyone who would come along and take them for free. What a world we live in now..... Thanks for sharing this awesome tutorial though. I am sure that if nothing else, this stone looking wall is a LOT lighter than real stones LOL.
What we Scots call a dry-stane wall. Looks labour intensive, but would make a great project for a haunt. You could create a non linear division between panels so that several would blend together seamlessly.
EXCELLENT!! Beautiful work as always-(from Cemetery Haunts) this is just my other account. You always really impress me with your prop work. True artist you are!!
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do you have any suggestion on how to obtain a "rock face" sort of finish? im doing a similar project, and i want to make the foam look like its a stone that the edges have been chipped away at with a chisel. using a wire brush is working for the majority of the shapes, but im having a hard time trying to figure out how to make the crisp edges that stones have when theyre chipped away at. thanks for any help you can provide!
What a great tutorial...thank-you! Now to figure out where to source large sheets of thick cardboard...trying to plan how best to "build" old world garden walls for an event with a low budget. Likely will use reclaimed wooden pallets as free-standing walls as support for the lower walls, now to tackle ways to form/frame up the arched sections...
Very niiiice! Love faux recreation videos. How hard does this coating make the foam and what would you say the overall weight of this specific project weighs? Thanks for sharing.
It’s relatively durable. Similar to monster mud or drylok.This small sample weighs next to nothing but I could see it getting heavier if you were applying it to a sheet of plywood that was a much larger size.
I would make a change. After you paint the stones..I would take a small brush and paint he spaces/ grout a different color to make them pop out. A darker color perhaps.
This is more or less what I had been planning to do for my cemetery pillars. The part that I'm trying to work out is how to handle the corners. The stones should be wrapping around the corners, and my first thought was to try and use two pieces of 1" Foam glued together at a 90 degree angle, but I'm worried about the seam being obvious.
Have you ever seen those shelves that are made to fit into a corner, where they alternate a small shelf to each side? I wonder if you made something like that but in reverse? Alternating bricks pointing left and right?
First and foremost great video, secondly I've been looking for something like this for a little while. I want to do this to a very big wall but didn't want to buy a giant sheet and maybe get it to fit and then getting it in the house and everything. What would you suggest the best glue would be to make sure it permanently sticks to drywall? Second do you have a link to your video for what you used as a base?
@@VanOaksProps Thank you, one other quick question, would it be ok to use 1/2" foam. I don't want to add too much to the wall and I want it to look a bit more mortared
Imagining a wall that’s built by a stonecutter (and not found stones) I think having an occasional harder line like the hot wire left behind would be accurate, as larger rocks would definitely be broken to fit as needed during the building of a wall. A bit of smoothing to show weathering over time would be needed, but I’m thinking some straighter lines here and there for a nice sharp shadow could be nice!
Thanks to you and your all too good ideas, my entire summer is about to be spent making thousands of cobble stones for my 12 cemetery pillars! This looks so much better and than the way I was planning on making mine that I know I’ll regret it if I don’t do it this way 🥲
