To start, we know that the feature wall below looks way too large to fit down your basement steps to complete your home theater. Continue reading to see how we fit it. This feature wall was carved from a soft substrate. The mold taken from the soft substrate measured 6 inches in depth. The mold is poured with an extremely dense production foam. The end product is painted with 3 layers of hydrastone to make it tough and rigid, and then painted and stained.

As seen in the completed image, lighitng is applied to provide the shadow effect that really turns this wall into a new ancient artifact. Better: we cycle the light color every half hour over 8 different colored lighting schemes, making it come alive!

Oh, as promised, with this particualar feature wall, we break it to fit as if cracked by the stresses of the earth and time, or an earthquake.. The feature wall in these photos was created and cut into 5 distinct sections that could be easily moulded, handled, and shipped.

 

Live your Themes is tireless in creating your complete immersive environment. Medieval, mystical and adventure themes requires aged faux finishes to do the job. Atlantis, outerspace, or other high tech environments require clean finishes and colors. Every inch of a target space is covered with the appropriate coating, paint, object, or personal touch. Trust Live your Themes to provide the complete surrounding that you request.

The materials that we use in production are not necessarily the easiest to carve by hand. Clay is our medium of choice for carving. The clay (sometimes carved in pieces) are reliefed into a fiberglass form from which we create our final product made of plastic resin, production foam (to be coated in hydrastone), or other permanent product depening on the application. Our final pieces are painted, stained, and readied for its placement in the themed environment.

As personalized as our services are, we do sometimes cheat a little. Using hand carved molds made specifically for our customer requirements, we may create a multiple of stone or other moulding objects. Using mouldings allow us to create repetition where needed. Hand painting of every stone piece allows for variation in the production.

Rocks are hand crafted directly on the wall and made of a unique Hydrastone mixture, then hand painted using up to seven different colors of paints and stains for a truly authentic look and feel. All rocks are created on site, by hand and one at a time. It's a time consuming process, but it's the only way to achieve the perfect look and feel.

Many of our clients require large scale production on site because of door size, and room accessability. These large size features are treated with the same tender loving care as our studio produced works. Carved on site, these features receive several hydrastone layers to make it hard and tough, and then paint, stain, or both layered to match items or objects existing or brought in from our studios.

The Mark Klaus' Live your Themes complete concepts are not just walls, ceilings and floors; but include everything necessary to create a truly authentic themed environment. Mark chooses furniture, creates window treatments and selects unique items of interest that will immerse you in your theme. Interior Designers could be used, however the vision provided by Mark Klaus is so far from the education that designer's receive in school that it has to be done by the visionary. Interior Design is often about choosing the right products to match eachother. Interior Design at Live your Themes is about Creating.