When it comes to brick aging or distressing can change the look or help newer brick fit in with the older style of your home or camouflage replacement bricks in an older structure with a decorative technique over the whole thing.
How to paint a wall to look like old brick.
A latex paint with a flat finish will give you the brick look that you are going for.
Clean the brick wall.
Brick walls have a somewhat warmer feel than cinder block walls.
We decided the columns needed a bit of detail as well so we chose to paint them to resemble brick.
Choose a paint that is slightly darker than the actual brick.
The best product for cleaning brick is trisodium phosphate tsp.
By using a thick paint roller to apply the paint evenly to the brick and touching up bare spots with a paint brush your brick wall will be painted in no time.
If you re painting the interior of a fireplace make sure you re using heat proof paint.
Like other surfaces masonry should be cleaned before painting.
Apply the resulting.
Updating your home doesn t always mean making it look more modern.
Do this randomly around the edges and corners of the bricks to make the brick seem stained.
Simply press the brush into the brick do not drag it across the brick s surface.
It is ok to collect paint around certain areas such as near the ground where most staining would occur.
One fairly easy way you can hide the cinder blocks appearance is by faux painting them to look like a brick wall.
You have several options for getting the old brick look.
Recently i told you about painting a concrete wall to look like stone.
Mix the tsp with water in a bucket according to the manufacturer s directions.
Apply a latex primer to the wall to ensure the paint will stick to the brick and choose a paint that s heat proof to protect the brick wall.
Paints with high or semi gloss are too shiny for the brick finish that looks almost real enough to touch.
This compound can be purchased in powder form at hardware stores or a cleaning product that contains tsp can be used such as spic and span.
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This faux brick column now stands in the fellowship hall of trinity worship center.
The appearance that the blocks provide however is very plain and utilitarian.