After taking a look at building floors and roofs out of LEGO bricks, it’s high time to try out some walls! While this is a far cry from exhaustive, here are several different basic tips for building walls imitating all sorts of materials, from rough hewn stone to smooth woodwork.
First off, let’s look at some ideas on building stone walls. Since stones come in all sorts of irregular shape, stone walls can incorporate many different unusual pieces. LEGO profile bricks are usually the base of my stone walls, but clips, headlight bricks, jumpers – if it’s grey, I give it a go!
This next stone wall is a little less textured, besides using slopes to achieve a ruinous feel.
But if you want a cleaner look for your wall, using slopes sideways to represent cracks can work splendidly, as in this MOC below!
Of course, the color doesn’t always need to be light grey! Dark grey is always an option, and other shades of stone or brick can come in handy too, like in this medium dark flesh building. Notice the addition of tan, too; adding a complementary tone can really help!
Keep an eye out for more stonework in chimneys or bottom stories below!
Moving on, tudor style walls are very popular when it comes to building medieval styles. The next example is a fairly simple one, using brown around the outsides and blending white and tan to give the building a weathered look.
The distinctive of the tudor style is the wood posts on the corners. Usually these are brown, though dark brown, black, and maybe tan can work as well. And while the colors for the wall are often somber tans or whites, brighter shades can be very effective, as in this little blue cottage.
Tudor style buildings go well on top of stone, as in the case of this blacksmith’s shop.
While the tudor style uses brown on the edges, and sometimes across the middle, that can be dispensed with for a more colonial-era look. White makes a good base color for buildings in that time period.
As in the previous build, the next creation also uses white and a bit of dark red; but this time, the dark red is always sticking out slightly.
More modern houses tend to have less obvious color and texture variations. But texture is still there! Using thin plates and flat tiles (which have a very small groove at the bottom) can add just the right amount of texture.
You may not think it, but stripes are a very effective way to spiff up your walls. In the building below, an otherwise quite flat first story is made visually attractive simply by a few brown lines.
In this next example, again, we see lots of stripes which really add to the buildings!
Those are some basic types of walls, but there are always some extraordinary concepts that call for extraordinary techniques! How about a wall of ice? Trans-clear bricks in front of blue have a great frigid feel!
Back in the rough frontier days, some log cabins seemed to be more mortar than log. I tried to recreate this feeling in the house below:
But it’s also possible to skip the mortar, and just use sideways 1×1 round brown bricks for a more primitive wall.
And finally, here’s a wall technique few people will ever need… larger-than-life LEGO bricks:
Again, these are just a couple of ideas and pointers for building LEGO walls! There are so many creative ways to recreate just about every texture imaginable! But next time you’re not sure where to start with a wall, maybe one of these can give you the perfect idea! Meanwhile, if you have any comments, questions, or other techniques to share, feel free to leave them below!
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Geneva D 
Very inspiring! 🙂
Thanks! 🙂