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When you own a small business, it is important for you to have the right ambiance and look to make your customers feel at home. Whether you need to upgrade your restaurant curb appeal with an exterior project, or you want to revamp the restaurant interior for a new look and feel, faux stone is an affordable and easy solution. In this blog, we will look at ten ways that you can use faux stone to improve your restaurant’s interior and exterior.
10 Tips to Use Faux Stone to Your Restaurant’s Look
1. Install faux stone on the checkout counter.
Whether you have a checkout counter or a little hostess station, you can add faux stone to it with ease to add some depth and character to it. Since it is one of the first things your customers will see when they walk into your restaurant, it can help set you apart from your competition and draw the eye.
2. Wrap faux stone around the bar.
To give your restaurant’s bar a facelift, you can easily use faux stone to surround it. This will give it some character and depth, so it will be more visually appealing to your customers. Since faux stone is DIY-friendly, you will not need to shut down your restaurant or parts of it for construction; you just need a few hours, up to a single weekend, to get everything installed.
3. Use faux stone for a stylish backsplash.
Faux stone is waterproof, so it makes an excellent backsplash in a restaurant. You can add it to your restrooms to make it more attractive and comfortable for your customers.
If you have a bar or coffee counter, you can also use faux stone as the backsplash for that. It is much easier to keep clean than its natural counterparts, and it is thinner than natural stone, so it will not take up too much space on your counters.
4. Install faux stone on your restaurant’s exterior sign.
Your exterior sign is how prospective customers will find your restaurant, so you want it to look good and stand out, and with faux stone, you can make that happen. You can wrap it around the base of the sign and install lettering around it, or if it has posts, you can try faux stone pillar panels around those to make it look great.
5. Use faux stone for a fireplace surround.
Nothing says “come in and get comfortable” like a fireplace, so if your restaurant or coffee shop has a fireplace, creating a fireplace surround with faux stone is a great way to give it a more authentic and comfortable look. If your business does not have a fireplace, but you want the ambiance that one can add, you can instead install an electric fireplace heater on a wall and use faux stone to create a surround to give it that authentic look.
6. Install a faux stone accent wall in your restaurant.
Is there a blank wall in your restaurant, either inside or outside, that you do not know what to do with? Installing a faux stone accent wall is a great way to cover a blank wall in your restaurant, giving it some visual appeal.
7. Create a unique design on your interior walls.
You are not limited to just using faux stone to cover walls as they are; you can get creative with it. For example, if you are creating a gallery wall in your restaurant, you can place faux stone panels on the wall in between pieces of art, so the stone accents the images and helps draw the eye. While this is a similar concept to the accent wall, it is different because it allows you to showcase how creative you are and have some fun making a unique design that your customers will enjoy looking at when they come to eat at your restaurant.
8. Make a statement with your support pillars.
Support pillars — both interior and exterior — play an important role in keeping the roof up in your building, but they can often be overlooked when redecorating. You can wrap faux stone pillar panels around your support pillars to make them more visually appealing. They can be wrapped all the way up, or you can only wrap faux stone around the bottom half, creating a wainscoting look. You can even top off the wainscoting with little cocktail tables, so your customers have somewhere to place their drinks in a patio dining area.
9. Cover the foundation of your building.
The foundation is a crucial part of your restaurant’s building, but it is often made of unsightly concrete that can detract from the beauty of your building. You can install faux stone over your restaurant’s foundation, covering it and giving your exterior a facelift. Curb appeal is a must in this industry; if a prospective customer does not like the exterior look of the restaurant, they might decide to go elsewhere to dine.
10. Install faux stone on the front porch of your restaurant.
Since every customer is going to walk over the front porch of your restaurant, you want it to look good, and installing faux stone on the front porch and around the front door can give it some flare that will make it stand out.
Why should I use faux stone in my restaurant?
Now that you have a few ideas for how to utilize faux stone in your restaurant’s interior and exterior let’s take a look at some of the benefits of using stone veneer. The benefits of using faux stone in your
- Low maintenance
- Fits into any aesthetic
- Designed to DIY install with ease.
- Improves a restaurant’s curb appeal.
- Improves insulation.
- It is affordable.
- Eco-friendly
- Long-lasting
- Durable
- Lightweight
Other Ways to Update Your Restaurant’s Interior or Exterior
Now that we have looked at some of the ways you can upgrade your restaurant with faux stone, let’s take a look at some other design ideas to revamp your restaurant.
Create a New Color Scheme
The colors of your restaurant create an atmosphere, and you want to ensure that the color scheme of your restaurant fits in with that atmosphere. A quick, easy, and affordable way to do this is to repaint the walls. You do not have to paint the entire dining area; you can create an accent wall using paint that contrasts the colors of the rest of the room while complementing them at the same time. Have fun picking out some new paint colors to brighten up your restaurant. You do not need to limit this to your interior; you can repaint the exterior, too.
Add some artwork to the walls.
Artwork is a great way for you to give your restaurant a new look. You can even put up work from local artists that your customers can purchase. You will help your local artist community, and it can be a great way to make sure the art on your walls is changed out regularly.
Add some life to your dining area.
Plants can create a splash of color to draw the eye and give your dining area a little bit of extra life. Since many people have allergies and plants are not cheap to maintain, it is a good idea to either avoid using real plants or use things like succulents since they are easy to care for and should not trigger allergies. There are a lot of fake plants that look realistic enough to use without looking too fake or cheap.
Change up your lighting.
You would be surprised at how much of a difference changing up the lighting in your restaurant can make to the overall look and feel. You can get new lamps, like pendant lamps, add some candles, and even adjust the way that natural light comes into the room. Think about the ambiance you want your customers to have, and you can rearrange the lighting to fit that.
Scrap the tablecloths.
Bare wooden tables have become much more popular over the last few years than elegant tablecloths, so if you are looking for something new, getting rid of your tablecloths can transform your dining space. The bare wooden table is popular for the social media minimalist aesthetic, and tablecloths can be expensive to keep them washed and replaced. You can still give your customers a feeling of elegance by using cloth napkins. You can use placemats instead of tablecloths to protect your tables from getting scratched up.
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