Repair any cracks or blemishes in your wall with concrete patch.
How to paint concrete wall finish.
Unless you re an experienced painter you may want to purchase extra paint to account for more absorption than usual.
Choose paint for your project.
Apply concrete patch to fix any.
Clean the concrete wall.
5 easy steps to create a faux concrete wall finish paint the wall with your medium grey paint and a block brush with arched brush strokes follow up with a wet cloth and soften and smooth the edges and strokes use a scrounged up wet cloth and dab on extra texture with an almost dry block brush add.
Clean the concrete surface with soap and warm water removing any old paint.
When selecting a paint remember that there are masonry paints that are designed to reduce.
First sweep away any surface leaves.
It s unique every time and in this example we re.
You will need a paint that is.
In this video i demonstrate how i used a concrete finishing trowel and regular satin paint to create a concrete looking wall.
Select paint appropriate for your outdoor project.
Preparing the concrete 1.
The look is both soft and contemporary works well in urban environments and is still livable.
Painting interior concrete walls can add warmth to a basement at very little cost.
Remove dense areas of oil or grease with tri sodium phosphate tsp to ensure that the paint doesn t discolor later.
A few years ago i wrote about a distressed glazing technique which has a distressed feel to it a way we developed to add visual texture to your walls that doesn t like a stock rag rolling.