Brick walls add together grapheme to whatever room past times serving equally a focal indicate or providing a backdrop that either complements or contrasts the room’s other pattern elements. Whether your vogue is industrial or rustic, the beauty as well as uniformity of a brick wall tin privy add together texture as well as beauty. Below are examples of natural, painted, distressed as well as fifty-fifty imitation brick that tin privy either add together old-world charm or update your space.
Vary the texture inward a room
A mix of master copy as well as whitewashed brick. Image: asbe/Getty Images
Bethany Adams of Bethany Adams Interiors has used brick walls equally pattern accents inward the homes of several clients. “If you’re fortunate plenty to alive inward a dwelling with company masonry walls, selectively exposing the brick past times removing the top layer of plaster is a swell agency to add together texture, warmth as well as grapheme to your space,” Adams says.
A brick column inward a renovated 1940s Raleigh, NC, home. Image courtesy of Form as well as Function Raleigh.
“I dearest the happy accident of finding this brick wall (in the photograph above) during a renovation for our client,” says Carole Marcotte of Form as well as Function Raleigh. “We decided to larn out it exposed equally a counterpoint to the new, modern bathroom,” she explains. “I intend this is 1 of the to a greater extent than interesting ways to exercise a brick wall where y'all tin privy vary the texture inward a room – smooth versus rough, modern versus rustic.”
Exposed bricks inward a minimalist bathroom. Image: plusONE/Shutterstock
The photograph to a higher identify is the ultimate inward industrial minimalist design. The exposed brick walls as well as rough-hewn, unpolished flooring add together to the abandoned warehouse vibe inward this opened upwards concept loft bathroom.
A fresh coat of pigment tin privy update the await of your brick wall. Image: asbe/Getty Images
Since black is the most fashionable color of every year, it tin privy live used equally an accent or to create a cozy, calming atmosphere. In the photograph above, it complements the woods floors, ceiling, headboard as well as other woods elements, as well as allows the white bookcase to stand upwards out.
Create a focal point
An updated fireplace inward the master copy brick structure. Image: ExperienceInteriors/Getty Images
Marcotte says removing the plaster or drywall on a fireplace wall is but about other swell agency to break brick inward a room. “I dearest exposing the brick as well as opening the walls on either side, if it’s a pass-thru, as well as having this tower of brick rest for the fireplace wall.”
Alphabet bricks. Image: Experience Interiors/Getty Images
If y'all accept a brick wall that has been plastered over, 1 genuinely cool sentiment is to carve out a missive of the alphabet of the alphabet inward brick (see photograph above). However, if y'all determine to sell your home, that’s something y'all would in all likelihood desire to encompass upwards earlier putting the dwelling on the market.
The brick accent wall keeps this room from beingness bland. Image: KatarzynaBialasiewicz/Getty Images
Adding a brick wall
Now, anyone tin privy accept a brick wall. Image: asbe/Getty Images
However, if y'all don’t accept an master copy brick wall, y'all tin privy create the appearance of one. “Applying sparse brick tiles (real brick that’s sliced thin) is but about other swell agency to add together depth to an accent wall,” Adams says. “Just live careful non to larn overboard. Usually, a unmarried accent wall is plenty to create impact.”
A brick veneer wall tin privy add together grapheme to your home. Image: kelllll/Getty Image
Thin brick veneers tin privy add together grapheme to almost whatever room of your home. “Adding a sparse brick veneer to existing drywall would live a cool agency to give a novel dwelling or novel walls the texture of an older home,” Marcotte says. “It definitely imparts an industrial or loft vibe.”
However, at that topographic point are but about cautions for using imitation brick walls. “While they are a swell agency to add together warmth as well as grapheme to a space, y'all desire to brand certain y'all pick out placement inward your dwelling that makes sense, peculiarly if your dwelling is newer construction,” advises Rebecca Rowland of Rebecca Rowland Interiors inward Seattle, WA. She says the wall needs to await authentic.
Where to exercise brick veneers
A brick veneer backsplash is slow to clean. Image: hikerston/Getty Images
While brick veneers tin privy live used anywhere, they mightiness await to a greater extent than realistic inward but about locations. “A kitchen is a swell identify to comprise brick, peculiarly equally a counter-to-ceiling backsplash to a higher identify a stovetop,” Rowland says. “A fireplace wall too industrial plant genuinely good for a brick veneer accent.” However, she says that basements are a favorite identify for incorporating them – peculiarly alongside homeowners who desire to transform their basements. “It’s most believable that at that topographic point would live a brick wall inward that infinite as well as it does hence much to transform the room, peculiarly when windows are limited.”
Varying shades of brick create interest. Image: Sinenkyiy/Getty Images
Rowland says it’s too of import to pick out the correct product. “A brick veneer (half brick or sparse brick) that y'all tin privy buy through whatever big box dwelling improvement shop is much ameliorate than a wallpaper that looks similar brick,” she says.
“Brick veneer is genuinely made out of the same materials equally regular bricks, hence if y'all pick out the correct identify inward your dwelling for your brick wall, no 1 volition always know it didn’t come upwards with the house,” she says. However, Rowland adds that y'all necessitate to pick out the correct color of brick that volition agree your cut as well as furnishings.
More brick veneer options
Havwoods International is a society that makes brick veneers called TrikBrik. “TrikBrik is extremely versatile as well as slow to install since it comes inward 1 foursquare meter panels that are slow to cut,” says Allan Singh, General Manager at Havwoods International.
Singh says that contractors accept used TrikBrik to create the await of exposed brick inward bedrooms, kitchens as well as living rooms as well as to create the await of a chimney or fireplace.
However, Adams warns that trying to add together a brick wall to a dwelling where brick is non already 1 of the architectural features of the household could backfire. “It mightiness live a dead giveaway that it’s a decorative addition. No affair how much y'all dearest the brick, it volition destination upwards looking out of identify as well as could detract from your home’s value.”
“If y'all absolutely accept to add together brick, intend virtually tiling your kitchen or mudroom flooring inward sparse brick,” Adams recommends. “That way, y'all larn the await on a surface where it makes feel for but virtually whatever home.”