Covering concrete retaining wall in faux stone

[crazyjoe]

@DCnDC

If you just don’t want it to look like a concrete slab, my friend literally just painted the outside of his basement walls brick red and then spray-painted gray lines onto it to make it look like bricks. From the street you really couldn’t tell at all; you needed to walk all the way up to it to realize it wasn’t actually bricks. Even the realtor was fooled when they were selling the house.

Alternately, paint the whole wall grey, then tape off parts of it (with REALLY GOOD painter’s tape) so it resembles brick shapes, and roll the brick-red paint over that. Seems easier than trying to paint straight lines, but what do I know.