Thread: Ripped Walls

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There was someone on here that posted a picture of ripped walls. They had it in their living room and it looked super cool. We are planning a Zombie party and I wanted to do something like that to my dinning room.
(Make it look run down) How would one go about doing that?

We thought about putting brown craft paper all over then wall paper over that (as to not ruin my walls) then rip the wall paper in sections (showing the brown paper under that) so it looks older.

But the craft paper is hard to keep down and the wall paper doesnt stick sometimes in places. Is there an easier way to do this?

I would ask the person who did this orginally but I don't know who their id or what thread I found the photos on.

I don't know how to make walls look ripped but I'm a firm believer in poster putty. Maybe that will hold the paper down w/out damaging the walls.

Hi did you mean like this:

http://hauntforum.com/showthread.php...hlight=plaster

They did something similar of HGTVs Halloween Block Party back in 2009. They used brick patterned paper and lined it with joint compound to make it a little more 3 dimensional. I did find the entire special online though. It's about 17:30 in where they show how to make them. http://www.hgtv.com/video/halloween-...deo/index.html

OMG that is a great idea!!! I wonder if I can pull that one off.

Thanks for that Star Girl - I'm going to give that a try this year - that is SO cool!

I found the stuff he mentions in the tutorial but I am wondering if that can also be used for ripping. Since we are wanting this to be a run down as possible.

Starting a few years ago for our Halloween party I did the poster board and wood grained shelving paper method above. With a good f aux painting job it works really well and it's hard to beat the price.
It really does look like the walls are old and run down.

I did see the HGTV special it looks cool too, but for the age and style of my house the wood lath look is better. My house id 83 years old we actually do have plaster walls with lath underneath

I think I would do the brick and plaster method if my walls where stucco.

I saw a post recently too. The person bought like 5 black poster boards (for like $.50 each) and a roll of contact paper with a wood grain (about $3-4) they described cutting the contact paper into strips to resemble wood slats (the grid on back of paper made this super easy) then they applied the contact paper to torn pieces of black poster board...after using paints to help shade and age the faux wood slats they merely tacked the poster board up (straight pins could work in this application). If I can find the post and pics I will let you know but the results looked amazing....and extremeley cheap.

Thanks so much for putting up this thread-- I'd never even thought of doing something like this but have now started looking for wood/brick contact paper to make these.