Fake Brick

And this is why I hate fake brick
1. It's ugly
2. It's impossible to remove from your walls.
3. It destroys your walls in your attempt to take it off the walls
4. It screams 1972.
5. Did I mention it's ugly ?

So this weekend we tried to start removing it from the backsplash of our kitchen.


















While we were chipping away, layer by layer....
First the major parts of the brick. Than the layer of mortor stuck to the poor plaster walls. Some areas played nice, others not so much.


What our walls looked like after removing all the layers of the lovely brick.






It was a pretty close call, if I should just rip it all out and just put of drywall. I'm trying to repair it this week. Let's see if it works.