| A lot of home owners are looking for ways to | | | | panels are easy to cut with any wood cutting |
| make their home more personalized, to give it a | | | | saw. |
| warmer touch, to make it more accurately reflect | | | | The nice thing about faux panels is that you can |
| what they want it to be...and when the housing | | | | use them for indoor accents and for outdoor |
| market was strong, this resulted in TV shows like | | | | siding; they're effectively a decorative type of |
| "Home Makeover", which promised that you could | | | | outdoor vinyl siding. They're water tight (when |
| get the results that a team of off camera | | | | caulked properly) and UV resistant, meaning that |
| professional contractors could get, in a weekend. | | | | they can replace the shingles on the outside of |
| Anyone who's ever done home beautification | | | | the home. |
| knows that "doing it in a weekend" isn't | | | | The usual uses for faux panels are to cover a |
| likely...especially for higher end projects like installing | | | | concrete basement or clerestory with some sort |
| brick veneer on a wall, or re-paneling a wall. | | | | of stone work façade on the outside of the |
| Natural materials are wonderful, and the look of | | | | house. They also get used in interior decorating to |
| brick or stone behind a fireplace is quite charming | | | | make a 'cozy corner' with faux panels made to |
| and rustic, but nobody wants to have to hire | | | | look like brick, random stone or dressed stone for |
| bricklayers or masons and wait the three weeks | | | | interior spaces, usually around a fireplace or a |
| for them to finish tearing apart and putting | | | | wood stove. |
| together your accent wall. Faux panels is the | | | | Additional extensions of the faux panel system |
| handyman's solution. | | | | include fake stone columns, to dress up other |
| Here's how faux panels work. They're made from | | | | parts of your landscaping, like the mailbox post or |
| hi density polyurethane. Each stone, rock , and | | | | a driveway entrance column. They're also available |
| brick texture is molded from the real thing. So | | | | in textures other than stone; they get made in |
| you get an exact replica of the original material. | | | | wood, rock, bamboo and other natural textures |
| Then each panel is hand painted to look like the | | | | as well. These stone panels are also used as the |
| original. The faux rock panels are made to | | | | stone veneer base for custom signage for a lot |
| interlock into each other like a jigsaw puzzle. This | | | | of businesses. |
| provides a seamless look. | | | | Whatever your home improvement ideas, if |
| To attach them to the wall you would simply glue | | | | you're on a tight budget, both time wise or |
| and screw them. You would start with the | | | | money wise, faux panels give you a lot of options |
| bottom course first, and then your second | | | | to work with. They're a great way to improve |
| course. You keep going until you reach the top. | | | | the look of your home, and are easy application |
| After that you would use the color matched caulk | | | | improvements, that don't involve hiring |
| to seal any seams, gaps, or miss cuts. The | | | | contractors to come tear apart your walls; it's |
| caulking also helps to seal our moisture for | | | | entirely possible for an average do-it-yourselfer to |
| exterior projects. Another plus is that the fake | | | | put these up in a long weekend. |