DIY exposed brick wall
Our house is more than just a place we lay our head down to rest – it’s our home. We spend a great deal of our lives inside our homes ans that makes it critical to ensure that we decorate and instill a sense of belonging and happiness in our surroundings. A fun and unique way to do that is by decorating your walls, and a truly fun and unique way to do that is by creating an exposed brick wall look. Although this might seem at first glance to be a construction project, it’s actually just a facade. Let’s take a look at how you can go about creating your own exposed brick wall inside your very own home.
What You’ll Need
- A plate easel
- Red and orange paints
- Newspapers or premade paper mache mix
- White sand
- Tan construction paper
- Hairspray
- Superglue
What To Do
- Using your paper mache that you’ve either bought from the store or made yourself with newspapers, begin by molding some thing brick shaped items.
- Glue your paper mache “bricks” to the wall using the super glue at even intervals, leaving a bit of space between each one.
- Using your red and orange paints, mix up a few different shades on your plate easel. Optionally you might look into getting a black table top easel discount
if you’re not used to holding your paint.
- Paint your bricks, taking care to switch up the shading so that they don’t all match exactly.
- After the paint dries, use super glue to line the spaces you’ve left between your bricks with a nice layer of white sandy paste – this will complete the effect of a brick wall.
- Take your construction paper and cut it into irregular slices, gluing them in sections atop your brick. This will give the effect of a wall that is crumbling away to expose the brick underneath.
- Finally, spray the entire thing down with a nice layer of sticky hairspray and sprinkle it with sand, giving it a nice worn look.