Coro Bricks

John Goodman from Church of Hope in Jacksonville, Florida brings us this stage design for their black brick wall.

From John: Our new year challenge was to create a design under $1000 that could be quickly adjusted and moved.

We removed all Christmas items and started with a blank canvas of flat black painted cinderblock.

We purchased Coroplast squares from Amazon – 50 sheets, precut 12”x18” for $35. We mounted these using gorilla putty / sticky putty / blue-tack.

The 6 LED strips were all 16ft / 5meter lengths. Using Govee HS6125 we can use the free Govee app and not only control the lights during service but also switch off the sections of lights that we do not need lit (hidden behind trim).

Wash lights were our biggest purchase $109 each with a $10 off coupon. We purchased 5, placed on ground and lit the coroplast squares.

Placing the squares so that they were equal took some measuring. Never assume your wall is level and straight!! Instead we took measurements left and right off the projector screen as that was what looked right when being viewed. Then used a small piece of wood about 1.5” wide and used that as a spacer.

(We tried 1” adhesive Velcro buttons but they didn’t stick to the concrete wall. Gorilla putty worked fine. We attached some to each corner.)

The led lights will take you 20-30 minutes to program. Very important. Number the boxes of the led lights so you know which is which. Makes it a lot easier when installing and controlling.

The wash lights are dmx control or if you are not ready to dmx yet, then you can power these up and change the color pre-service.

The whole project took 3 people 4 hours to complete (with coffee).