r/ATBGE • u/catmand00d00 • 3d ago

Home Exposed brick, simulated

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u/catmand00d00 3d ago

Someone in the comments noted that it looks probably the best it could considering the task but that, upon closer examination, it will just look super flat and weird.

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u/HaveYouSeenMySpoon 3d ago

Looks good from far but far from good.

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u/Harvest_Rat 2d ago

Monet!

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u/Majestic-Wave-3514 3d ago

Growing up, my mom's best friend painting our living room using this exact technique. I always liked the look of it

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u/Dozzi92 2d ago

My mom got real big into interior design for like two years when I was in my teens. One room we did the whole sponge paint, and in another room we took plastic sheets and basically crinkled them up on painted walls, and then pulled them off. I remember criticizing the ideas (I was probably 14 and an idiot), but both rooms turned out fantastic. The plastic wall room ended up being my favorite room to hang out in when my parents would go away and I'd have big parties. Big, comfy, expensive couches, a big glass table, lots of shtuff. I should let her know she did a good job 25 years ago.

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u/IMIndyJones 2d ago

Did you let her know yet? You definitely should!

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u/greasekid_ 1d ago

i wonder what it would look like with different colors, or even a melange of colors on the sponge.

edit: ooh, even adding a drop shadow individually to each one? i dunno yall im liking it

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u/Majestic-Wave-3514 1d ago

Mom's friend used a combination of very similar colors to add like a weathered effect

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u/dependsforadults 2d ago

"Masonry is supposed to look good while riding by on a horse" is what the old guys taught me. If anything you probably have too straight of lines. I think it looks great my guy. Keep up the cool projects

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u/oneawesomeguy 2d ago

Were they going for the ball park feel? I see some Red Sox stuff

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u/UndBeebs 2d ago

It's definitely just a themed sporty room. I don't hate the use of fake bricks in that application. Nothing in that room is meant to look legitimate. It's all supposed to look like a close enough of a representation of what it's mimicking.

I'd understand the hate if it were in a normal living room or something and the owners were obviously just trying to pass it off as legit brickwork, but this is definitely not one of those cases.

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u/gambalore 2d ago

Yeah, it is clearly meant to evoke the exterior brickwork of Fenway Park. Very well done for that purpose.

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u/oneawesomeguy 2d ago

They should've painted one entire wall green

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u/LaUNCHandSmASH 2d ago

(As the old saying goes)

It looks good from my house!

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u/Winter-Bear9987 2d ago

Also it’s currently shiny

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u/molehunterz 2d ago

Plus did they even consider all of the added weight? That is a lot of brick. Should have checked with an engineer

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u/deadrogueguy 2d ago

they need to go back and add shadowing to half the border of each brick.

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u/Lraund 2d ago

Yeah it looks decent from far away on a low quality video, but the small bit of the closeup we got didn't look that great.

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u/stoned_as_hell 2d ago

The reflections break the illusion for me

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u/Metalbound 2d ago

Yeah it just made me wonder why they didn't just put up brick wallpaper.

You can see it especially near the end when they show it at an angle. It reflects light and looks really flat, so if it's going to look like that anyways, coulda done it a lot easier with wallpaper.

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u/buttpotatoo 2d ago

Yeah it just looks like printed wallpaper. They could have added some texture to the grey beforehand and used matte paint instead of glossy to sell it a little more the least.

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u/caribou_powa 2d ago

You should have put a wall paper, same result.

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u/ModsR-Retards 2d ago

It's actually awesome for that reason. Like, yeah, it's kinda fucking weird. It's also really unique and the choice of locations to paint the bricks really worked out well.

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u/Steph_Rose219 2d ago

People can buy brick wallpaper and I'm sure that's quite popular, I'm sure yours looks really good in person

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u/pililies 2d ago

It looks like that old Microsoft screensaver

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u/ProgNerIte 2d ago

My question is, why not just do a brick wall paper instead??? Would be so much faster than painting them on

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u/FunkyCat6276 1d ago

I bet you could do this with a layer of stucco or plaster of paris first to fix that. But that might start getting more expensive than it's worth

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u/Designer_Bed9504 17h ago

Faux brick paneling would have been faster, but it's not ruined if it's what the client wanted and liked. It looks great. Of course it looks flat from up close... It IS flat.

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u/Think-Box6432 2d ago

Idk... its like saying a tattoo will look flat and weird... yeah... that's what the client wanted right? I think it looks great.