Create A Natural Looking Stone Wall With Joint Compound And A Stencil
Interior stone walls are expensive, tedious to install, and needless to say; a back breaking experience. You need to pick out and haul the stones, haul and attach the backer board, spread the messy thin-set, lay out the stones, and then grout them. It is a lot for the mind to comprehend when it comes to a weekend project, let alone to accomplish. But I have a simple, beautiful answer that creates a wall of raised stone that looks so real you won’t believe it! Supply List: 1. Raised Plaster Stone stencil: Raised Plaster Stencils are now readily available on the internet (simply do a search for “Raised Plaster Stencil” to find all of the available sources). If you can’t find just the right stone stencil design, you can make your own. 2. A bucket of joint compound (or more, depending on how large the intended wall is). 3. A small mixing bucket 4. Wide mask easy guitar songs ing tape 5. A 3″ wide plastic scraper 6. Pure pigment tint to pre-color the joint compound (these come in many forms from concrete and stucco pigments or in the paint department of most home stores or on-line sources). The color you choose will become the “base” color of your stones. 7. A small sea sponge. (Even an old towel works!). 8. Clear polyurethane sealer. 9. Craft paints in the secondary or “accent” colors you would prefer in your stones. (For instance, a pale brown base color with deeper brown and cream accent colors). To create your own stencil, first decide on your stone pattern. Practice with pencil and paper until you have just the right design by creating various size stones in different patterns or simply copy a pattern from a garden book or magazine. Create a square or rectangle design since it will be the easiest to repeat over the wall.