Awesome job, Sir! I'd like to share a couple additional tips for newbies: Run the 8' length of polystyrene panels horizontal to the floor. If looking for a bit more distressed texture, a light splatter of acetone randomly here and there works nicely. This is to "eat concave divits" for additional texture. Be gentle with acetone splatters or misting... test on a sample piece first. Try this before hitting it with the heat gun. - For Color, grout lines: Black paint is very harsh for grout lines. It can look nice as done here. I don't use black grout lines for set designs. Try a stone colored Neutral dark gray instead. Also, have reference material so you know what you are replicating. (I airbrush and glaze on top of the flat paint color for additional dimension as additional steps. Just something to keep in your toolbox of ideas). I enjoyed this video. Great job.
Placing the foam sheets horizontal will help hide the seam lines. Also simply gluing in scrap foam on a few of the seam bricks will break it up and your eye will not notice as much. It is still a great way of doing it 4 years after video was released :) Great Job!
This is AWESOME! I will most definitely be doing this in my dining room. I also have a crack in one of my living room walls but rather than hanging new drywall, I believe I'll go this route instead. Only I'm gonna do the original red brick with a whitewashed look. Thank you, for sharing this with us!
This is a GREAT idea! I’m in the process of planing our dining room renovation and that includes building a rather large square table. I’m thinking 8ft x 8ft that would seat 12. I had this idea of building the table with a pedestal base instead of legs but I didn’t want it to be too plain. I was really REALLY close to spending an unnecessary amount of coin on factory made faux brick/stone panels. See, I want to have an accent wall and have the base of the table covered in the same faux bricks/stones. I know it’ll give that wow factor without overdoing it. Thank you for this video!!!
this is awesome!!!! I wanted to buy foam "fake" stone wall, but I found that it cost even more then real stone. Then I want to make it from cement, but then I found it would be too heavy. This is solution.
Excellent Tutorial my Friend😇 I DEFINETLY am gonna do this " YOUR WAY"!😃 I thought to myself of how I could make some Brick Panels before also and what came to mind was " The STIRAPHONE Panels also but other than using a " exacto knife" which would take a VERY LONG TIME, lol to CARVE OUT EACH BRICK after I made my lines..lol and they're would be the added "melt affect" that you did to make them look like real bricks! That you ODVIOUSLY did an EXCELLENT JOB in achieving !!👍😁 Now I will know how to do my own when I'm ready!!😁 Thank you!!
Im goin to try and faux brick my mailbox. Instead of burming the joints (hehe) im actually cutting the brick shape out of high density foam. This will allow me to match me house brick, as well as let me use my masonry background as well. Nice vids! Thanks for taking the time
Hey Steve , just wondering what color you used for the brick over the black and did you thin any of the paints.. Also redoing my work shed and thinking of moving my sons drum kit and guitars etc from upstairs and wonder if your band had any big issues with bounce back or anything using this type of panels
the brand of paint was called Royal and the name of the color was morning coffee...no I did not thin the paint and it works great with the band sound...no bounce back at all...Goodluck man.
That looks great! Using this method soon I think; what kind of paint did you use for the grout lines and rustic look? I wondering about eating at the foam....
Hey Steve. Do you think this would work on exterior applications also? I have been looking for an idea of filling in an area around an enclosed garage area. We removed the door, ran the block the same height as the original crawl space height all the way up to the edge of a 38" steel door. All that's left is the exposed outside wrapped wall.
LAYAL Azzam well at first i thought that I would use adhesive velcro so that it wasnt permanent but then I decided just to hot glue the foam to the wall . My reasoning for that was if i wanted to take it off the wall later. I would just take the glue off and texture the wall and paint over. However the room really looks good to this day and I get compliments all the time on how real it looks .
Well when you take a heat gun to it , it not only gives it the brick like texture but it hardens it a but as well.... I would try a test piece first with the poly. It might eat the foam i know spray paint does
zoro italiano actually I was happy with what the heat gun did and the paint. But now that you mention it. I bet a half and half mixture of Elmers wood glue and water would work. It drys clear . Great idea. Try brushing it on a test piece
kay Dee yes but wow the overspray will prob get on everything and you really need to wear breathing protection but I guess if you open all windows yeah. Let me know how that goes
