The Brick Wall Effect

The exposed brick wall is one of our favorite interior design looks. Coupled it with raw look of wooden floor finishes, we get a hint of the loft lifestyle that inspire us.

The brick wall is one of the major item in our renovation process. It is going to cost us and also set back our completion date by a week but we are not going to care. Once the brick wall is completed, it will become the decorative feature wall behind the sofa in the living room.

Actually, this is the 9th week into our renovation (Please refer to this post for part of reason for the delay). Usually, a renovation project of our apartment's scale takes about 6~8 weeks. So we are really behind time. And the open house will have to wait. =P

The choices for creating the brick wall vary :
(1) Apply wall paper with brick wall motif
(2) Build an actual brick wall
(3) Lay brick tiles on the wall
(4) Spray paint a brick wall 

Option (1) is ugly. The "brick" wall has a fake look and even worse without the texture. Bleah....!
Option (2) is too expensive and HDB will never approve it because of laden weight issue.
Option (3) is the most popular method. Do a search on Renotalk & Myhometown dot sg and you will come across many homeowners choosing this solution.

And so you can guess now what we are going to choose?
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It's Option (4)! Surprise, surprise! Yes, we are going experimental with spray painting the brick wall! In fact, the top picture features a spray painted brick wall that comes with real groove lines and texture! So we decided on the following:

We are engaging a specialist company in architectural coating and paint to help us. The company is going to show us a sample of our selected design by next week. I'll post an update then. In a nutshell, we learnt that the process of creating the spray painted brick wall is as follows:

1) Application of base coat
2) Set the template
3) Spray in the brick materials
4) Remove template
5) Application of top coat
6) 出きった！ \(^o^)/ 

On the right shows the groove colors that we can select. The grab below is the template that we have selected.

We are looking forward to seeing a completed sample next week. We were told that the company doesn't usually do small residential project so our apartment might be their first. If so, this spray painted brick wall might be actually a first done locally for a small residential project. Well, our only concern is that it must look nice! =)