Concrete lintel decoration

hat a lovely place you have there..Y'know thats where I would get creative, and cement oyster shlels or wine bottles over it..

It is a lovely place - and you've given me food for thought there!

What about facing it with hardwood planking so it looks like a wooden beam ?

Cheers,

John

or if you wanted it white, lime render it. Lime render also comes in light pink, using red sand, and you can add black speckles, or any other colour stone bits. Then theres the old black mortar...

NT

You could render it or buy a slice of oak or something to cover it. You aught to get a colour similar to the stonework if you render it and get the oak or whatever treated if you clad it.

It looks to be 16 or 17 feet long, so finding a single length of slab, whatever the material, might be difficult. Of course, living in the country you might be able to find a timber mill more easily than most.

Why was such a crappy pour set up in the first place? It wouldn't have taken much to make it look a little more presentable, would it?

Make it look like a wooden beam: render it and put lines in it with a comb, you'll need to add knots too and make the corners more rounded, when it's finished paint it dark brown/black...you may need to set up something to work to at each edge, to prevent mortar getting on the stonework, 2X2 battens or similar....I've seen people do this and also put round pegs at various places, or fake cut outs...visit any pub that is over 200 years old and you'll see what I mean

Who poured it BTW? - it's an abortion

Don't know. Somewhere along the line someone did it and did a runner I'd imagine. But I've got plenty of ideas to work on now - thanks everyone!