Concrete boulders

I love this stuff! Ever heard of Hypertufa (pronounced hyper-toofa)? It's a 3 part mixture of Portland cement, peat moss, and perlite. It looks really cool, and makes long lasting garden plant containers, fake rocks and boulders, stepping stones, wonderfully whimsical garden spheres and all sorts of decorative garden accents. It looks alot like lava rock, the peat moss eventually decomposes and leaves pits, the perlite keeps it light weight. Just smooth it over a form or mold, let it…

The nice thing about making stage props is that you don't have to fool anyone up close. The audience is going to be at least 15 to 20 feet away. That makes polystyrene foam the perfect material for creating many props, including rocks. Polystyrene-foam rocks are lightweight, but the audience doesn't know that.

Image 7 of 30 from gallery of Qinglian Garden / July Cooperative Company. Photograph by Hao Chen

Create a natural wonder in your yard without breaking your back. Make a faux rock waterfall using lightweight concrete rocks.

This is a video on how to make a faux, or fake anvil using a cardboard form to cement the anvil. Training web site: http://www.fauxrocktraining.com Email: in...

Tucked into a hillside between boulders and camouflaged with stone hues and a green roof, this home on San Juan Island in Washington State almost seems to disappear into the landscape from certain angles. A wall of windows provides expansive views of the scenery, with operable glass panels provi ...

I love this stuff! Ever heard of Hypertufa (pronounced hyper-toofa)? It's a 3 part mixture of Portland cement, peat moss, and perlite. It looks really cool, and makes long lasting garden plant containers, fake rocks and boulders, stepping stones, wonderfully whimsical garden spheres and all sorts of decorative garden accents. It looks alot like lava rock, the peat moss eventually decomposes and leaves pits, the perlite keeps it light weight. Just smooth it over a form or mold, let it…

Y’all, don’t even ask about my pendant light. I can’t even go there today. Just know that when it’s done, I’ll show you. Until then, I don’t even want to talk about it. What I do want to talk about is faux rocks and boulders! Specifically DIY faux rocks and boulders!! Until a few days...

Making Artificial Rocks (c) 2009 Some Rights Reserved by Tom King A friend of mine makes his living building rocks and designing exhi...