{"id":221,"date":"2014-05-23T07:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T07:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/?p=221"},"modified":"2014-11-15T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T14:41:16","slug":"fake-cobblestone-walkway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/diy\/fake-cobblestone-walkway\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake cobblestone walkway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or how to paint fake stones on your<strong> garden walkway<\/strong>. A large scale Diy, that demands large quantities of patience, some paint and not much more. The outcome will exceed your expectations and reward that pain in your back.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Materials and tools<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5l white exterior acrylic latex paint<\/li>\n<li>1l \u201c brick bold\u201d exterior acrylic latex paint<\/li>\n<li>1l \u201cRenwick Olive\u201d exterior acrylic latex paint<\/li>\n<li>1l \u201cRuskin Room Green\u201d exterior acrylic latex paint<\/li>\n<li>1l \u201cPavestone grey\u201d exterior acrylic latex paint<\/li>\n<li>1l \u201cJogging Path\u201d exterior acrylic latex paint<\/li>\n<li>A medium size brush<\/li>\n<li>A painting roll and a roller tray<\/li>\n<li>4-5 large cobble stone pieces<\/li>\n<li>Chalk or painting coal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Instructions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clean your painting surface and remove any prior paint residues. Use your painting roll to apply two layers of white, exterior acrylic, latex, paint allowing each layer to dry according to the instructions on the paint container.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/05\/Step-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-226 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/05\/Step-1-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"Step A\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/05\/Step-1-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/05\/Step-1.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTrace the <em>cobblestone<\/em> pieces using chalk or coal and arrange them on your walkway. Use your brush and your color palette to fill the stone shapes, trying to create smooth outlines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/05\/Step-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-227 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/05\/Step-2-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Step 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/05\/Step-2-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/05\/Step-2.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKeep in mind that darker shades should be used in a smaller ratio than the lighter ones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/05\/Step-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-228 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/05\/Step-3-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Step 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/05\/Step-3-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/05\/Step-3.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In case your nervous system or your back cannot handle the cobblestone tracing torture, I strongly recommend that use a product like this:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">Pathmate Stone Mold<\/h6>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 250px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0001WTXAU\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0001WTXAU&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=paraligo-20&amp;linkId=K6RINJE6UPGCPXEP\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B0001WTXAU&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=paraligo-20\" alt=\"Pathmate stone mold\" width=\"250\" height=\"138\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Buy on Amazon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=paraligo-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0001WTXAU\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or how to paint fake stones on your garden walkway. A large scale Diy, that demands large quantities of patience, some paint and not much more. The outcome will exceed your expectations and reward that pain in your back. Materials &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/diy\/fake-cobblestone-walkway\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paraligo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}