Create a natural looking stone wall with joint compound and a stencil
Interior stone walls are expensive, time-consuming to install, and needless say, once again breaking an experience. You need to choose, and carry the stones, haul and attach the backer board, spread the messy thin-set, set the bricks, mortar, and then her. There is much to understand the mind when it comes to a weekend project, let alone pull off.
But I have a simple, beautiful answer that a wall of stone up, looks so real you will not believe it creates!
Supply lists:
1. Raised Plaster Stone template: Raised Plaster Stencils are now easily over the Internet (just search after "Raised Plaster Stencil") to find all available sources. If you do not find just the right stone stencil design, you can create your own.
2. A bucket of joint compound (or more depending on how large the proposed Wall).
3. A small mixing bucket
4. Wide tape
5. A 3 "wide plastic scraper
6. Pure pigment color to pre-align the joint compound () in many types of concrete and stucco or pigments in the paint department of most home stores or come online sources. The color that you choose will The "base" color of your stones.
7. A small sponge. (Also does an old towel!).
8. Clear polyurethane sealer.
9. Craft colors in the secondary or "accent" colors that you prefer to set the stones. (For example, a light brown base color with deeper brown and cream accent colors).
To create your own template, decide on your first stone patterns. Practice with pencil and paper, until you find just the right design through the creation of various sizes Stones in different patterns, or simply copy a pattern from a garden book or magazine to have. Create a square or rectangular design because it is the easiest of to repeat the wall.
Your template can pretty much anything that big, flat and rather thick manufactured. Durable plastic sheets to keep the best work is as them up to repeated use and can later be used with concrete over your existing patio, to create a new stone surface. , 14 mil thick plastic The trick or not, and is essentially modified by the abuse.
Although the openings for your stones can with a sharp craft knife, a stencil cut burner (available at your local craft store) slips through the plastic with ease, so that the tedious cutting a breeze.
You can create a temporary version of the template by using heavy poster board from your local craft or art supply store. Tip: Spray the Poster board lightly with aerosol spray hairspray or prevent matt lacquer to seal the paper surface, the moisture in the grout, the uptake of it before you Your wall project completed. A craft knife is all you need to cut out the openings poster board.
Transfer the design on the stencil material and cut the holes out.
Apply wide tape to adjacent walls, the ceiling and baseboards to protect against unwanted joint compound. Make sure the floor with a protection – drop cloth or plastic wrap, then apply your stencil to an upper corner of the wall and tape around the body.
Transfer ½ of the bucket of grout to a clean mixing container bucket and add a few drops of color at a time, mixing between color applications to the desired To achieve the basic color for your stone. Keep track of the number of drops you used, you can repeat the exact color if you mix longer need.
Stir the grout well. With your scraper, a thin coat over all openings. Scrape it flat on the link in the power of all the open spaces. Apply now more joint compound over the holes. The application of a coat that is more than ½ "just cracking as it dries the connection lead. You may or may do not favor this effect.
How smooth is that second layer of the compound, allow it to be bumpy, with dips and columns, vertebrae and ribs. This is a contribution to very natural looking stone. Remove the stencil and you can repeat the connection before your stones in addition to dry the wet design.
To speed things up Repeat along, we do the first, skip the second, which repeat the third and so on. To achieve this, simply measure the width of the openings and your template for the template at this point.
Once all the stones have been completed and are dry, add a little water into each of the secondary (accent) Colors that you've selected. Use your small sponge or old, dry towel to start the colors here and there on the spot rocks, blending as you go. Strips or veins of color can be applied with a cotton swab or an artist brush.
Apply a layer of clear polyurethane to seal and protect. Enjoy The look of a stone wall you created yourself and you hear the comments from friends and family who do not believe!
Copyright © Victoria Larsen 2006th
About the Author
Victoria Larsen is a professional wall stencil designer and interior specialist. Her products and ideas have been featured in Better Homes and Gardens, Women’s Day, Craft Trends, Creating Keepsakes,and Memory Trends magazines and The Wall Street Journal. Website: http://www.victorialarsen.com
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