Imitation of brick masonry with their own hands

One of the fashion trends in the decoration decoration is a brick wall. Good to those who have a brick house. They just need to repent the plaster and slightly "to undernger" what is happening. And what to do the rest? There are wallpapers and tiles "under the brick", but not all of them are distinguished by plausibility, but good stand almost like a natural brick wall. The optimal option in this case is self-made brick imitation for interior decoration. Moreover, the "tile bricks" can be made separately, and you can - arrange the whole wall in one right.

How to make a brick wall imitation: short list of ways

The easiest way, if you have a brick masonry under the plaster. Crouch the plaster, clean the seams, primer and paint. It turns out a natural brick wall. Moreover, it will look like "old" and vintage. Those who are less fortunate will have to imitate this brickwork. The good news is that there are many ways to have inexpensive materials, make a "brick wall" on concrete, drywall, plywood ... any more or less durable surface. Time, by the way, most techniques occupy a little. So, here's how to make brick imitation for interior decoration:

• Make a "tile under the brick", sawing the usual brick on the plates.
• Draw with acrylic paints.
• Print the picture and use it as a photo wallpaper.

  

  It is clear why the "brick" walls are so popular lately

• Make a silicone form with prints of beautiful bricks and cast in it a tile of plaster, imitating brick.
• Mimic brickwork with plastering solution, tile glue, decorative plaster. Seams do:
  • with the help of tape;
  • cutting and deleting too much;
  • Having squeezing the seams template.
• Cut from fine foamflast.
• Cut from plasterboard.
• Make a frame of fine planks. Planks - seams, between them fill the space with a solution. It will be bricks.

  

  Brick wall imitation frame

This is just a short list. In each point there are several technological differences. So imitation bricks for interior decoration can be made at least a dozen ways. Let's talk about some more.

Split brick

Reasonable It seems the idea to replace the expensive finishing tile "under the brick" loose on the plate brick. But the brick is needed good quality, without voids, inhomogeneities, alone or decking places. In general, brick is needed dear. Or old.

Example of dried bricks ... But these are two "beautiful" parts

Fill it better with water cooling circular saw. It turns out the decorative tile "under the brick" in natural color. Tile thickness - not less than 8-10 mm. The advantages are clear: low price, do not paint - there is a natural color. This homemade tile under the brick is then glued onto the walls using conventional tile glue.

For a more pronounced color, you can cover with a matte varnish

And this is to design outer corners

But there are disadvantages: you need a brick of good quality, and it is still necessary to find it. When drinking the plate can break. Only two of them are obtained with a beautiful surface - extreme. The rest will have to refine manually, creating a relief. It is a mutually, dusty, long, difficult and not the fact that brick imitation will actually "at the level".

With all the shortcomings, this method is used. And this is the only one, perhaps the option of self-made imitation of brickwork, which can be used for exterior finish . For these purposes (finishes of the facade of the building), by the way, you can cut a brick into two halves. All cheaper than buy tiles.

How to draw brick masonry on the wall

If the "wet" or "dusty" work is not your horse, but you know how to draw a little bit, the brick wall can be drawn. We need acrylic paints, brushes, a pair of natural sponges, greasy tape, dense paper plates for mixing paints. When breeding paints, remember that when drying, acrylic paints are darked. And yet: they will quickly dry, but the freshly mounted can be removed with a clean cloth moistened in water.

Whole process in step-by-step photos

First, we prepare the workplace: the plinth and the adjacent floor are closed with polyethylene or old wallpaper (better - to fix on the tape). Malanted tape out of the borders - at the top, on the sides. At the bottom, the limiter is plinth, although not to blur, it can be removed.

Draw bricks on the wall

Further step-by-step actions:

1. Pray the wall of white half-mailed acrylic paint. Leave to dry.
2. Preparing background paint. In one of the paper plates mix the 1/6 part of Umbra, 1/6 of black paint and 4/6 titanium bleached. We are immediately prepare a little paint, we put on the wall with a sponge just applying the surface to the wall moistened in the paint. Do not try to make a solid background - it should be torn, textured. In some places, put the paint tightly, passing twice, somewhere more transparent layer.

   

   We prepare the background: it should not be homogeneous

3. On a dried background from hand, not in line, we draw several rows of bricks. Weiently focus on the standard for masonry: 25 * 6.5 cm, the seam thickness is 0.8-1.2 cm. At the markup, keep in mind that according to this technology it is easier to make the seam already, building it, which then try to expand it.
4. To score "bricks", it is necessary to mix in different proportions of okhru and Siena, getting different shades of "brick" colors - from yellowish-orange, to brownish. They received some shade, painted several "bricks" in arbitrary places. Mixed a new portion, painted other bricks. A paint is applied by a brush, not trying to get a homogeneous surface or a dense layer of paint - the background layer is shifted. The edges of the "bricks" should also not be even.
5. For traditional red-brown, to Siena and Ohre Red, add a little ocher with a light, whitelle blenel. Those color can be painted several bricks in a row.

   

   Let's gradually score bricks with different shades

6. Another hue is to add brown Mars to the above composition and some water. We apply a brush or sponge - at will.
7. If you add to OKHR and Siena to add and quiet Siena, we get another color.
8. These shades in random order are painted all the bricks.
9. We divorce Belil and a little ocher, add water. The composition is applied by a sponge, acting as a tampon.
10. We take the old toothbrush and paint "Luggage". Focus the bristles in the paint and spray along the wall, imitating the heterogeneity and the texture of the clay brick.

    

    Finishing steps

11. We give bricks volume: a thin brush is loose in a mixture of Umbra and bleel. Let's get all the bricks from the bottom and right or on the left. All on the one hand, depending on where the window is located (with the opposite side of the side window). The liner thickness is different, as the masonry and the bricks themselves cannot be perfect.

Describe much longer than doing all this. Newbie per day can draw about 30 squares of brickwork imitation. For maximum truthful, there are several secrets about which we will tell below.

Final strokes

In order to draw on the wall of the brickwork, it was most like a natural one, there are several small secrets:

• If the shadows near the bricks turned out to be too sharp, they can be painted with a toothbrush (another), moistened in the mixture of Belil and natural siena, strongly diluted with water.

  

  Tricks, without which there will be no believability

• Applying paint on the brick, do not wait until it dries. Take Belil, add a little bit umbra, dip the sponge and it "Spice" the homogeneity of the paint, simulating the rough surface. For this, a sponge is slightly tricked to "brick".
• On a plate, next to the main kneading, squeeze the little of other paints. They change color along the color. Brick will not be monophonic. It walks a smooth and not very gradient of color.

  

  Brick imitation for interior decoration: result of artistic effort

• The dimensions of bricks, their edges, seams - all this should not be perfect.

In some abilities and efforts, it is possible to ensure that the painted brickwork is similar to natural. The main rule: non-ideality and heterogeneity.

Imitation of bricks for interior decoration from plaster mortar

The overall idea is simple: a layer of plaster or tiled glue is applied on the wall, it cuts out / selo with seam. After processing the edges of the "bricks" and seams, painting, it turns out the similarity of brickwork of varying degrees of believability. Everything is easy, but there are significant differences and nuances.

Imitation of bricks for interior decoration of the room made of solution, plaster (ordinary and decorative)

From what and how to make a solution

The first question that occurs: what solution and what is needed? Many recipes. Here are some options:

• The usual cement-sandy mixture: on 1 part of the cement (the usual portland cement is suitable, but if you want to look for pink or white) take 3 parts of the sifted fine sand, put it with water.
• Plastering mixture and tile glue (approximately 1 to 1).
• The textured plaster of the appropriate color, into which the roller (type of cored, with a sand) of a close color is added, but another shade. They are mixed only slightly so that the composition remains inhomogeneous.

  

  This looks like a mixture of "simple" textured plaster and roller. Quite believable brick imitation for interior decoration

• Finished plastering mixture (dry) + putty, dilute PVA (the best option for finishing plywood, OSB, GLK).

Regardless of which you make a solution, it should be semi-like, should not flow. It will not be necessary to align, so it is not important to you plasticity, and the adhesive ability will provide additives - tile glue and PVA. To choose a consistency, add water in small portions.

Surface preparation

The wall on which we will make the imitation of brickwork, it is not necessary to be smooth. It should not be dust and dirt, sprinkling fragments and particles. On this requirements end.

The process of preparing the wall - a thorough approach: first make marking

Before starting work, it is better to progress the wall. The type of primer depends on the base. If the wall is concrete or loose, go through "concrete contact". It will connect the sprinkled particles, create an adhesive surface, which is perfectly located any composition. If we decorate will be Phaneur, GKL or other similar material, you can do without primer, and you can wrap in diluted PVA.

Technology # 1. We use thin tape for drawing seams

First, the wall is painted in the color of the seams between bricks. Someone plans gray-brown, someone white-gray. Wall cover paint suitable shade. On the prepared base with the help of narrow painting tape (1 cm or slightly less / more), we apply markup. Scotch will designate the seams between the bricks, so that it is glued horizontally, at a distance of about 6-6.5 cm from each other. When horizontal lines are pasted, glue short vertical. From each other, they are 23-25 ​​cm at a distance - this is the length of the standard building brick, but decorative can be both shorter.

Now we take a solution, put on the wall. Layers of unequal, thickness 0.3-0.5 cm. We applied according to the type "How it turns out", without achieving a smooth surface, smooth transitions ... as it turned out, let it be. We do not allow only obvious proposher, through which the wall is lit. Filled the area, they took a flat trowel (grater), slightly smoothed what happened. We leave until the slightly will not surfaches: to press the composition slightly melted with a finger.

We apply a solution without caring for beauty and the same thickness

We use the ends of horizontally pasted Scotch bands anywhere (sticking, leave "tails"), pull, removing with a solution with a solution with a ribbon. Remove the entire grid. The edges of "bricks" are obtained by ripped uneven. This is normal. Even good.

We take a toothbrush or painting brush with a fairly rigid bristle. Toothbrush pass along the seams, removing the residues of the solution. At the same time, the edges of bricks are twisted. Then we take a wider brush and we pass the surface, adding naturalness, removing too sharp faces. Leave to dry at room temperature for about 48-72 hours. It is impossible to dry forcibly - cracks. Although, if you want to have cracks ... if the composition was not painted in mass, it's about painting.

Technology number 2: Slashing "Sews"

This method of imitation bricks for interior decoration takes less time: do not glue the tape. The solution is applied to the surface of the wall. Everything is exactly as described above, only a layer may be thicker - up to 0.8-1 cm. Waiting until the solution is slightly "grab", we indicate the seams. Here there are options again:

• We stretch the twine, along which the horizontal "seam" of decorative brickwork will go. With the help of a knife cut through two lines. The line does not use, cut from hand.
• We take the plank of the required width - 0.8-1.2 cm, add it in the right place so that it is slightly imprinted. According to the outlined lines with a knife, cut the applied solution.

  

  The essence of the process in five photos

The second option is obtained inactive. But you need to follow, so that it is not too smooth. Although, due to the fact that the hand is oppressed, the seam slightly "walks", which gives a more believable look.

Having done horizontal seams, proceed to cutting the vertical - also by hand. The width of bricks is about 6 cm, length - in the region of 23-25 ​​cm. Having finished, waiting for hours 12-14. While the composition does not grab enough so that he can be counted. When, with a strong press, the concrete begins to crumble, take a wide screwdriver (the usual, which is "spatula") and it is smelting the solution between the cutting stripes.

In the process…

When the seams are cleaned, we take a rigid brush or brush, remove the residues of the solution, crumbs. The bristles on the brush must be rigid enough. If the solution is dry, you can try more cardinal measures - a metal brush.

Technology №3: Saws saw

This way to make brickwork imitation for interior decoration is only the fact that instead of a knife take the old hacksaw blade.

After waiting until the solution grabbing and won't fill, with the help of a saw with a saw blast. Here you choose one of the methods described above. But no longer need to wait: chucks are chosen gradually the seams. Long horizontal seams do quickly, but with vertical not very convenient, since the canvas is not too adapted for small distances.

From afar and don't understand that it is only imitation brick

This method is good in that there is no danger to "cut" the solution. You can make a "extender" as soon as the solution hardens a bit. In such a state, it is easier to round the face of bricks, giving them a natural "old age." Minus - it is necessary to adapt, otherwise you can do business.

We make a form for a liner of a brick tile from plaster

Another brick imitation for interior decoration in an apartment or house can be cast: you can make a gypsum tile in the form of bricks. To do this, with interesting instances of bricks, the impression is removed (they make a form for the formation of artificial finishing stone), the gypsum solution is then poured into it. The resulting tile and is used to finish the walls. This technology is good because it allows you to prepare several forms in which you can make bricks of different colors for different rooms.

We find interesting bricks and several almost ordinary, but with different small defects. We will use them for casting form. It is desirable that they were at least a dozen, and better - more. More diverse will be "artificial brickwork."

The result can be very similar to the real laying.

To the side, which we will "propagate", we apply solidol or preheated wax, mixed with kerosene. It is necessary that Silicon does not stick to the surface. When everything dries, on the treated side we apply a layer of silicone sealant. The layer thickness is 1-1.5 cm. We leave until the polymerization of silicone (the time depends on the type, it is written on the package).

You can make such forms: brick imitation with marine motives

When Silicone hardened, take the mounting foam and failing the shape, without removing it from the brick. After the foam freezes, we remove the brick, flatter the bottom of the form so that it stands smoothly. You can use by filling with a gypsum solution. It is quickly seized, if there is a dozen forms for 2-3 days, you can make a tile for a couple of squares of the imitation of a brick wall. Gypsum solution, by the way, can be painted in mass. Then new cracks and chips are not trouble - exactly brick.

How and how to paint

Recently, the white brick wall has become fashionable. If you are going to do just such, there are no problems: the brush of the seam, the surface is roller. If you want to have not too monophonic, add a slightly shade - gray, brown, yellow ... and even pink or blue. This paint is paint. To the residue, add more white and with this, brighter with a semi-dry roller, sponges, brushes. If you wish, you can apply the top "shadows" with silver, bronze, adding some gold. Here you will like more than you.

Brick imitation in the bedroom - looks very stylish

If the seams in the imitation of the brick layer should be darker, first pass through their brush. Then the roller with a short or medium pile is missing the surface of the bricks. If you take a roller with an even shorter, dip it into the paint of another shade (lighter or darker - it will go), in bronze, silver, gilding, etc. And this roller quickly, slightly touching, to sneak the most speakers, it will turn out an even more interesting effect. In general, you can experiment. With this approach, brick imitation becomes the design object and the main interior decoration.

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