How To Create Faux Marble Effects

How to do faux marble - a massive do-it-yourself project. Marble is a major part of many design styles that you may be looking into - however, as you can imagine, the price is often prohibitive. As a result, if you're looking to use marble in your decorating and you don't have the money to spend on it, you might want to look into faux marble as an alternative. There are many different stores that will sell you faux marble, or you can learn how to make it yourself.

Step By Step

The first thing you should realize is that faux marble is a very time consuming process. While you may save some money in the long run by choosing this process, you should only go this route if you are ready to spend a lot of time on a home project.

For instance, one of the estimates for making a faux marble floor is that it will take an entire month of hard work in order to make it work - especially if you are going to be covering a large amount of floor.

Faux marble finishes require several acid washes first. This is to make the concrete ready for the paint or stain you'll be using on it first. After the concrete is clean, you should look for a product that will work best with your particular floor. The best products will actually react with the concrete chemically in order to produce varying colors.

After you have used the faux marble stain, you should make sure that you use the right process to apply sealant. Your best options in this case are to use professional quality sprayers - that way you will get an even coat over the whole floor. An uneven coat of sealant can cause problems with your faux marble in the future.

While this is not recommended in most cases, if you have a lot of time to do a major project in, you should be able to get a beautiful faux marble floor after about a month of work.

Check out our other article on faux painting.