Hello!
My girlfriend came up with a fun idea for the basement renovation.
We are in the process of tearing out the floor and basement walls in our wooden house with a concrete foundation and basement (built '68), as the wooden studs that lie against the concrete are unsurprisingly moisture-damaged. We were planning to replace with a tile floor and walls with steel beams and waterproof drywall.
But then came the idea - for the new guest room, wouldn’t it look great to build an interior wall with brick or small boulders and paint it with moisture-permeable white paint? So that it looks like the foundation is stone-laid rather than poured concrete.
Has anyone here tried something like this, and have tips or warnings to share?
I think a brick wall takes up as much depth as a normal wall, and that the brick should let moisture through from the foundation just as well as the tiles do on the floor.
Or are we completely crazy and should abandon this idea immediately?
My girlfriend came up with a fun idea for the basement renovation.
We are in the process of tearing out the floor and basement walls in our wooden house with a concrete foundation and basement (built '68), as the wooden studs that lie against the concrete are unsurprisingly moisture-damaged. We were planning to replace with a tile floor and walls with steel beams and waterproof drywall.
But then came the idea - for the new guest room, wouldn’t it look great to build an interior wall with brick or small boulders and paint it with moisture-permeable white paint? So that it looks like the foundation is stone-laid rather than poured concrete.
Has anyone here tried something like this, and have tips or warnings to share?
I think a brick wall takes up as much depth as a normal wall, and that the brick should let moisture through from the foundation just as well as the tiles do on the floor.
Or are we completely crazy and should abandon this idea immediately?
