How To Distress Concrete Walls

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.

How to distress concrete walls.

Protective polyester dust sheet for your floor one sanding block ideally fine one to smooth out the plaster pva glue and water to dilute one bucket or container. Concrete is very porous and will suck in any paint. Paint gold on piece first and then dry brush turquoise over vaseline as a resist. It s unique every time and in this example we re.

Courtesy of bridgewater builders. For more modern styles combine a shiplap wall with stone or faux stone. Dip a ragging cloth in water and wring it out. Grab a squirt bottle and any old paint you have laying aro.

Tutorial on how we age and distress walls at sweet dreams scare house. First and foremost we have to removed the cracked surface concrete and study the quality of existing steel if we found the area of steel was drastically got reduced due to rusting then we have to provide extra steel by anchoring it to the concrete with the help of anchoring grout but before anchoring we should clean the existing steel with the help of sand paper and remove the rust completely then with the help of paint brush apply zinc rich primer zrp allow it to dry for an hour. I would use a different color blue but i still really like this. How to antique concrete to look aged.

The look is both soft and contemporary works well in urban environments and is still livable. As above step 4 optional. Then 25mm round brush for the. Brick marble and concrete also look great with shiplap especially if you want to break up large sections of stone with warm paneling.

As above step 2. Mike day everything about concrete 2 031 087 views 27 12 use epoxy to coat existing countertops to make them look like real stone step by step explained duration. Very quick easy and cheap. I m using some of my own cast concrete pieces like the critter and the hands.

Twist the cloth to create a long uneven tube and roll the cloth along the. One common cause of distress is stress cracking of masonry elements caused by the absence or improper spacing of movement joints. Dip the cloth in a tinted faux finish glaze and wring it out once again. Here we take this process one step further.

Distress and then wax with brown antiquing wax or stain and rub off immediately and seal with poly.