Recently a customer was having trouble with the faux brick breakout technique. She sent photos and asked questions. I helped her achieve the look she was hoping to have in her home. The exposed brick photographs she took are included. I hope these questions and answers will help you paint the faux exposed bricks you want to have in your home!
Well believe it or not I have started! I need your help. I have attached three copies of two different breakouts I have done. I’m having trouble with the faux finish around the breakout. Can you please take a look and tell me what I need to do. On the top breakout I have attempted the faux finish to try to look like old plaster. Not sure I accomplished that. The bottom one has none. The pictures I previously sent you of the Model home didn’t really have much of a finish around it, but I’m not sure it looks all that real. What do you think?
Should I do the faux finish on the bottom and others I plan on doing as I did on the top one? or Not have a finish around them as I don’t have on the bottom break out or Should I continue with that faux finish and do the complete entire wall and adjacent walls in the room or Should I start over with the faux plaster finish and do…………what???
Thank you and I’m actually enjoying this just having trouble with the getting the plaster look.
First answer to help Martha:
You have the grout lines drawn in wrong… Stagger your bricks!
You are doing great! Nice looking bricks.
I promise, this will be really neat when you get done
Well I plunged ahead with the bricks. I never achieved the faux finish around the bricks, but ended up just “winging” it. I have attached the pictures. I corrected the one that weren’t staggered. Let me know what you think. Thanks
Martha
Your bricks have improved!
I like the faux rustic finish, even if it is just a little bit. It does break up the wall around the “breakouts”. I didn’t like your original faux finish on the first photos. You had a “band” all the same width of faux.
The faux around the breakouts at your door are not faded or jagged
enough. They still have the symmetrical hard look, even though you have softened them a bit. Work in some of the original house wall color paint. Let dry and then add the faux again.
It is darker than the model home, but I like it. It is naturally jagged. I would add a little more faux - making it a tad bigger all the way around, but water it down more… I don’t mean soak the sponge or whatever with water and have it drippy, just less paint and more faded around the edges.
I don’t think you need to faux the entire wall. I like the clean look of your gym area. The breakouts are never going to be “real”, just as they weren’t real looking in the model home. They are a really cool designer accent.
In the pictures… the grout lines look a little clean… toooo light. Take a dirty brush and try to dirty up the lines a little. Lightly catch some grey/browny “faux” in the texture. Not toooo much, as I like the light grout, it just looks much to clean.
Your black cracks have to go. Use the dark brown instead, and try again. The cracks you made are not natural. I can tell you tried to “paint” them in, instead of holding the brush like a light feather and letting the texture guide the brush. The cracks can be “just a hint” of color and still show.
You are trying to blend my style of “black shadows and cracks” with the Model home look. So your learning curve is a little bigger and longer. You are doing great!
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