Van Metschke at South Hills Church in Corona, California loosely based this design on a stage he saw at Mariners church in Irvine, CA. The “App Wall” as it was dubbed, is made up of multiple 2′ x 2′ squares of 1/8″ Luan plywood. Each corner was rounded with a jig-saw. The majority of the “apps” are painted flat white, others are painted flat grey or left natural wood. They were then attached to the wall with drywall screws.
The train mural was painted by Annie Phipps for their series “Derailed”. The stage is lit with a combination of Mega-Light LED washes and Elation Design Spots.
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That would be a great projection surface!!!
This is pretty awesome! I think I'm going to incorporate this into my next design!
-Tyler Herron
Hey Van- what genius designed that???
Hey, I gave Todd credit for my inspiration….
My Son James helped paint those squares!!
And he did a great job.
have you thought of an alternative way to mount them other than actually drilling into the wall?
Hey Donnie. Just thought I'd let you know another "App" type design is posting up on the site on the 12th that has a different way of mounting the "Apps". It'll post up at 8am CST. Hope that helps. :)
Hey Jonathan don’t know if the other app wall design went up Yet. I was trying to figure out a way to do something like this without drilling into the wall.
Here’s the other way: http://www.churchstagedesignideas.com/2011/01/12/app-heaven/
So if you had to do it again would you leave some of them grey and natural or paint them all white? I am thinking about doing this tomorrow. Just wondering if I should paint some grey or just do them all white?
We just did this in our youth room and got a great review from our students and adults. We just did the rounded squares. I am looking for something to add to it to top it off. Open to suggestions…
are the walls just black all around the rest of the room? do you have any suggestions for the walls other then just black to make the room flow? (not talking about the stage) we like the look of the stage, we just dont know what to do with the rest of the walls.
I think I would try to “frame” out the stage. Put something like truss at the edge of your black stage. I think that would give a visual that the stage is ending. It would force the focus on the stage and people wouldn’t really notice that the black ends on the stage.
Hey how far do the squares stick off the wall? 3inches? 5inches? We are looking to incorporate this look into our new church campus in CT. Thanks!
The squares are attached right to the wall, flat. We don’t have a very deep stage, so every inch is important to us.
can you tell me exactly how large your stage is? and how many of each light you’re using? thanks!
Our stage is 35′ wide and it is 14′ to the sofit above the stage.
We used 13 LED bricks, 4 on each of the side walls and 5 on the center.
We went ahead and used 18″x18″ routed squares. We used industrial velcro to adhere them to the wall and it worked perfect!
Pictures coming soon! Thanks!