He paints the wooden texture with hands

[u/No-Lock216]

[u/dermitderposaune]

Nice technique. With a little more variety it would be more convincing, because these knotholes all have the same pattern.

[u/PizzaSammy → u/dermitderposaune]

Must be inspired by a monocultural tree farm.

[u/Sad_Pomegranate6322 → u/PizzaSammy]

Bro’s painting veneered chipboard.

[u/Polyolygon → u/dermitderposaune]

That was my issue with it. Wood has variety in its patterns and grain, and there really isn’t much variety here.

[u/Stiqkey → u/Polyolygon]

And there's too many of them, cut the number of knotholes down a bit, and it would look way more believable. Although I personally like the look of it with all the knotholes, kinda funky, and trippy looking sorta. It'd definitely be even cooler if there was some variety to them.

[u/BalticMasterrace → u/Stiqkey]

every fake plank needs at least 1 knothole in it

[u/shapu → u/BalticMasterrace]

That's what they said about the Men's Room at my favorite bar

[u/BROILERHAUT → u/Polyolygon]

To be honest, I probably wouldn't think about that, when coming into that room, without knowing it's artificial.

[u/Stiqkey → u/BROILERHAUT]

I agree, it seems like one of those things that you wouldn't really notice unless you knew about ir or were purposely looking for it.

[u/iWould_Die_for_you → u/Stiqkey]

Nah itd instantly throw you off humans notice patterns and the low vid quality is doing heavy lifting

[u/PubDefLakersGuy → u/Polyolygon]

Him having an automatic design probably helps with speed. He isn’t thinking creatively and designing, it’s just — these are the motions to get this look.

[u/skuppy → u/[deleted]]

True, but also Romanesco broccoli.

[u/fnigler → u/skuppy]

A lot of other things in nature repeat themselves way more perfectly than this fake wood grain pattern

[u/coffeecup9845 → u/dermitderposaune]

Notholes

[u/Frequent_Opportunist → u/dermitderposaune]

I think it's more about having a nice balance throughout the room. I think it's a cool pattern.

[u/Straight-Treacle-630 → u/dermitderposaune]

Yup. And less would be more, imho. But it is quite lovely.

[u/salasia]

Sadly this is an endangered artform now that wood was invented. Jokes aside this is just not amazing

[u/Mistravels → u/salasia]

I think it has a LOT of potential. But need a "less is more" approach.

Wood grain is not that defined.

[u/beardedsilverfox → u/Mistravels]

And every board shouldn’t have a giant knot area. Needs more variety to look organic

[u/Senor_Ding-Dong → u/beardedsilverfox]

Maybe if you buy discounted boards lol

[u/hot_ho11ow_point → u/Mistravels]

Stained or oiled wood can definitely look very similar to this depending on both the type of wood and product used.

[u/patchyj → u/salasia]

Fun theory about wood: the microorganisms that break down lingin (wood polymer) hadn't evolved during the Carboniferous period while forests spread everywhere, so when trees died, they fell but didnt rot. Accumulative layer over millions of yesrs led to the formation of some types of coal deposi

[u/Toadsted → u/[deleted]]

It's pretty coal info

[u/chapstickbomber → u/patchyj]

think about how long it took to develop microbes for lignin, millions of years

think about how long it will take to develop microbes for plastics

(^ trick thought because ASI is going to invent that shit in the next like 2 years)

[u/love_junkie911 → u/salasia]

Ahem, just knot amazing.

[u/SilverNeptuneAbyss]

That definitely looks like garbage close up in person

[u/FaceWithAName → u/SilverNeptuneAbyss]

I don't know man. I moved my phone closer to my face and it still looks pretty good to me.

[u/podlaski-dzikus → u/FaceWithAName]

I don't know man. I moved closer to where this guy lives and it still looks good to me

[u/YodaVader1977 → u/podlaski-dzikus]

I don’t know man. I moved in with the guy, looked at his phone, and it still looks pretty good to me.

[u/rainbowkiss666 → u/YodaVader1977]

I don't know man, I fucking married the guy, went to the Bahamas, had his children, got beat the fuck up by him, and divorced him and it still looks pretty good to me.

[u/girlinhk → u/rainbowkiss666]

That’s gay

[u/tilt-a-whirly-gig → u/girlinhk]

Might not be, they never said they took their socks off.

[u/ElegantCoach4066 → u/tilt-a-whirly-gig]

Inside you are two wolves

One is gay

The other one is also gay

They got married in the Bahamas

[u/Strict-Challenge-995 → u/ElegantCoach4066]

Poetry

[u/Ruby5000 → u/tilt-a-whirly-gig]

Thought it was an eye contact thing. Idk.

[u/MoeGunz6 → u/Ruby5000]

I think it's about docking.

[u/girlinhk → u/[deleted]]

Is this one of those alpha camps? Nah… they look too happy.

Just a bunch of regular gays.

[u/Resident_Table6694 → u/FaceWithAName]

I did that too but it looked blurry. I put on my readers and it looked pretty good.

[u/Exact-Ad-4132 → u/FaceWithAName]

I'm more imagining that this is some kind of sauna setup and it's all going to start melting when it turns on

[u/hot_ho11ow_point → u/SilverNeptuneAbyss]

That's why it's on the ceiling 

[u/Frosty_Dimension5646 → u/[deleted]]

Usually about 8-9 feet. But this coved shaped ceiling looks particularly high and far away from the eyes.

[u/NoAdsDude → u/[deleted]]

You're phrasing that in such a way that people might think you're implying that all ceilings are the same height.

Put it this way, that guy is standing on top of some kind of scaffolding, so it's probably pretty high up there.

[u/hot_ho11ow_point → u/[deleted]]

I'm about to stain one tomorrow and am not too worried because you can never get close enough to see deficiencies. The walls are 8 feet and the vaulted part tops out at just over 11.

[u/JustAwesome360 → u/SilverNeptuneAbyss]

Beats an extra $30,000 you don't have

[u/sailphish → u/SilverNeptuneAbyss]

Depends on who is doing it. A lot of high end boats are switching to faux teak because it is more durable and requires a lot less maintenance. There are some artists who can make it look nearly identical to the real thing. Once it gets a bunch of clear coats on top, it’s absolutely beautiful.

[u/More_Shoulder5634 → u/sailphish]

Me and my uncle did something similar to a bunch of rich peoples (well rich for siloam springs AR) houses on a golf course. Textured drywall, textured and a standard paint roller, slightly different color on each, then rubbed wood stain on the walls with a rag. Looked freaking amazing we did the ladys house who owned a fairly big regional pizza chain. Ended up doing like 4 more houses. He had a paint business, and was a big stoner, i think he got real high and thought of it. Looked like an old mexican village or something

[u/AirshipEngineer → u/SilverNeptuneAbyss]

Which is why it's a great idea for a cealing! Cheap and nobody will get close enough to see it in detail.

[u/Megaledon17 → u/SilverNeptuneAbyss]

I mean yea that's why it's on the ceiling and not anywhere you'd get up close and personal

[u/BeautifulCuriousLiar → u/SilverNeptuneAbyss]

yeah… my dad did this for his friend once. they used pvc pipe filled with concrete as pillars and my dad painted them to imitate wood. he didn’t use his hands though

he used his feet

no im kidding he used normal paint brushes. of course up close it wasn’t perfect but gave much more life to the area as opposed to simple white pvc pipe. rip old man.

[u/Fastfaxr → u/SilverNeptuneAbyss]

Still looks better than plain white

[u/Paul_my_Dickov → u/SilverNeptuneAbyss]

So if you get up on a ladder and closely inspect the ceiling for some reason?

[u/Adkit → u/SilverNeptuneAbyss]

It looks like garbage from here as well. Wood doesn't look like that. What are those weird shapes? The planks would've had to be cut from a super curved tree to look like that.

[u/DieBotDie → u/SilverNeptuneAbyss]

The longer you look the worse it gets.

[u/No-Floor-7846 → u/SilverNeptuneAbyss]

Good thing it's on a ceiling

[u/CrashTestDuckie]

It's called painting faux bois. It's an old technique. Usually the crafts person uses special tools for creating wood grain.

[u/krdtr → u/CrashTestDuckie]

My favorite place I've ever seen it was the Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal.  Someone thought to do it on the large-scale wood, to make large-scale grain that'd emphasize the woodiness of, say, the big columns, even from a distance.  I was so excited to recognize it when I saw it!

[u/-MrFozzy-]

He attempts to paint wood like texture with his hands

[u/Ass_Blank → u/-MrFozzy-]

I think he’s using a cloth of some sort

[u/-MrFozzy- → u/Ass_Blank]

I know, but the title is the title.

[u/_JustPassinBy → u/-MrFozzy-]

He tries his best to paint wood like texture with his hands

[u/Cam_e_ron]

wow those chemicals cant be good for you

[u/Electronic-Raise-281 → u/Cam_e_ron]

He was white before this job.

[u/LoreChief → u/Cam_e_ron]

What do you mean he's on scaffolding in an unventilated space near the funneled ceiling where all the chemicals have risen to without goggles or a breathing mask. That's the safest place!

[u/skybluegill → u/Cam_e_ron]

south asia is a magical place where incredible skill is juxtaposed against a total lack of PPE

[u/fatmanstan123 → u/Cam_e_ron]

Part of the reason I do woodworking for myself. I don't need cancer warnings on everything in my house.

[u/Low-Grab-8225]

Why?

[u/nbaumg → u/Low-Grab-8225]

Poverty

[u/badpeoria → u/nbaumg]

ya this is probably it ... good wood is not cheap!

[u/0blud_werk0 → u/nbaumg]

It would have been cheaper to not do this

[u/UndercoverPotato → u/Low-Grab-8225]

This looks like it could be in India. In India houses are usually made with materials that stay cooler to the touch due to the heat (wood gets hot too quick). So since wood paneling/flooring is impractical/rare there, it's fashionable to fake it.

On the contrary in cold countries you can sometimes find floors made of wood or other more easily heated materials but made to look like marble/stone (which would be too cold to walk on in the winter).

[u/radiationshield → u/UndercoverPotato]

Regarding floors: as a norwegian i can say with pretty high confidence that there is no such things as making floors of wood that looks like stone. Sure you can paint or lacquer floors, but it's not to make them look like marble.

[u/TeaSharp3154 → u/UndercoverPotato]

Concrete is cheaper, and resistant to termites and water damage which are much bigger considerations in many parts of India as well

[u/spacenb → u/UndercoverPotato]

I live in Canada and I’ve never seen nor heard in my life of wood being used to imitate stone floors, this is just not a thing. Rich people put heating coils hidden under ceramic or porcelain tiles to heat it. Regular people just know and accept that tile is cold and wear slippers inside the house.

Wood is still expensive. Many cheap apartments or homes don’t even have wood flooring, they use vinyl or other composite materials to imitate wood. We don’t use wood for its thermal properties, we use it because it looks good, but wood that looks good enough for floors or kitchen cabinets is quite pricy. We use insulation inside the walls to keep our houses and buildings warm.

[u/Bo0ombaklak → u/Low-Grab-8225]

He’s just seen a lot of wood

[u/SlimTeezy → u/Low-Grab-8225]

Real wood looks nice, but is expensive

[u/Tooleater → u/Low-Grab-8225]

Why knot

[u/-maffu- → u/Low-Grab-8225]

Dirty Protest

[u/zero-progress0]

Looks very cheap

[u/AetaroKrokel → u/zero-progress0]

What were you expecting '70s panel board?

[u/No-Lock216]

u/RecognizeSong

[u/RecognizeSong → u/No-Lock216]

I got a match with this song:

Showtime by Nippa (00:11; matched: 100%)

Released on 2026-09-04.

I am a bot and this action was performed automatically | GitHub ^{new issue} | Donate ^{Please consider supporting me on Patreon. Music recognition costs a lot}

[u/chickenskittles]

I like it. It's cool. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[u/lakija → u/chickenskittles]

Everyone in here is so negative. And with so many upvotes. I think it’s cool. 

[u/a_lotis2words]

Doesn't even look like real wood grain

[u/lnTheGrimDarkness → u/a_lotis2words]

I was about to say. Sorry to break it for y'all but in person from up close, which is surely the standpoint of whoever's gonna live there, that definitely doesn't even look close to actual wood grain. You can see it's wonky from the video too.

However the guy does undeniably have some kind of talent.

[u/hoserb2k → u/lnTheGrimDarkness]

It's the ceiling, no visitor is ever going to see it as closely as in this video. That said, I agree if you are looking, you can tell it's not real.

That said said, almost nobody is going to notice. Think about inspecting a new apartment or house for the first time. Even though you inspect everything closely, without fail after six months you will discover some flaw that seems obvious after you notice it.

Most people are going to walk in the room and see "wood" on the ceiling out of the corner of their eye and never think about it again.

[u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose → u/a_lotis2words]

Glad I'm not alone. I've never seen wood that looks like that.

[u/throwaway_6621]

I hope that's paint

[u/dontbanme778 → u/throwaway_6621]

It's actually a mix of his piss and shit

[u/AccountHater]

r/diwhy

[u/Kingstad]

miserable twats all of you

[u/ILoveRawChicken → u/Kingstad]

Seriously I don’t know why I even open the comments. Everyone just tries to out-smarm each other while sounding like the most insufferable basement dweller you’ll ever meet

[u/Rancor_Spankor → u/Kingstad]

Nothing is ever good enough for these jabronis.

[u/Penandsword2021]

It’s not half bad tbh.

[u/Otherwise_Tonight_20]

People wooden believe it if this video didn't exist

[u/Excellent-Data8674]

incoming racist jokes...

[u/jaimehendrix]

Wood not have guessed

[u/eddie1975]

I think it looks cool. Maybe not a popular opinion.

[u/BeepBopBippityBop → u/eddie1975]

I don't think it's super awesome, but I do think it's great that people attempt creative stuff like this. It would've raken a while to figure out how to do this.

Shame about the chemicals and stuff.

[u/mogley1992]

Well sure he used his hands, it would be a little unreasonable to expect him to paint with his feet or something.

[u/Unethical_Gopher_236]

"I know a guy"

[u/ccmp1598]

Nothing like absorbing volatile hydrocarbons right through the skin

[u/Demonyx12]

Showtime · Nippa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bylaPz7A2CA

[u/XXxLord_]

u/auddbot

[u/auddbot → u/XXxLord_]

I got a match with this song:

Showtime by Nippa (00:11; matched: 100%)

Released on 2026-09-04.

I am a bot and this action was performed automatically | GitHub ^{new issue} | Donate ^{Please consider supporting me on Patreon. Music recognition costs a lot}

[u/CluelessMasterBaiter]

Nothing but sweat and skin oils. 👌

[u/Wick-book-4748]

Please, help me, whats music play on this video?

[u/Reasonable-Bus-2187]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ww8dxJfnxxuUo82wig

[u/Slight_Ad2350]

Far too many knots

[u/the_astronaut_]

That doesn’t look like wood at all

[u/Due_String583]

This does not look good. I also wouldn’t award this behavior with “amazing” as I’m sure the chemicals are not good for his skin. Big yikes all around.

[u/Zealousideal_Gur4708 → u/Due_String583]

I don't think it looks bad but 100% on prolly not good for him

[u/YoungerMucus]

seems like his move is one big knot in the wood with a bunch of smaller knots inside it

[u/Hawksfan4ever]

That's a bit knotty.

[u/Dadittude182]

Georgia O'Keefe approves.

If you know, you know.

[u/Willing-Secretary710]

Cheating

[u/Acceptable_Field_567]

I don’t trust anything anymore.

[u/sarcastic_sybarite83]

Is this the new "luxury feel" that you would get in a room with no windows?

[u/knatascheek]

Paint your knots on instead of buying bad wood

[u/homechicken20]

Edward Splinterhands

[u/HorzaDonwraith]

What wood you use?

FAUX

[u/fastpeach]

https://giphy.com/gifs/hFwiMEkNtfWNE4JsL0

[u/burrrpong]

Is that cloth his hands? Wowe

[u/Taupe88]

my 1970’s bedroom had that paneling!

[u/NoSkillzDad]

Accidental ASMR

[u/heatseekerdj]

The original AI wood effect

[u/No-Caregiver4502]

https://giphy.com/gifs/TJufnSz934AnK

[u/AdminIsPassword]

Yeah...don't do that. Not wearing gloves...staining in basically an upside down bowl...probably an oil-based stain. And he probably does this quite often. The damage he's doing to his lungs and skin will likely shorten his life.

[u/Jaded_Release2380]

You mean he paints with the rag in his hand

[u/StrongDuck666]

Lowkey thought it was reversed for a split second

[u/RScottyL]

I guess he doesn't have to worry about it staining his hands!

[u/RPM_Rocket]

No gloves? Hope he's got a family member who owns a dialysis clinic.

[u/mcmv1905gs]

Be amazed. Not.

[u/Callidonaut]

English narrowboat cabins used to be "painted" using a trick not entirely unlike this to simulate the grain of higher quality wood than the cheap stuff they were actually using; they'd apply a thick layer of dark brown varnish and then run a comb through it to leave thinner troughs that showed the lighter wood underneath.

[u/Many_Key5331]

Dude painted a bunch of wooden vaginas

[u/Upper-Title-4033]

Stupid. Probably gonna absorb chemicals through their skin.

[u/ZookeepergameFew8277]

There is this thing called wood that you could just put on the walls…

[u/jawied]

Is my whole life a lie?

[u/BiglyBear]

It's looks like a brown version of a whitewash

[u/Snow-Ball-486]

where's the respirator?

[u/AnotherHavanesePlz]

Veneer would have been cheaper.

[u/Wonderful-Web-5847]

He’s using a gel stain that ant easy to do especially with out a wood grain tool props to him

[u/LionBig1760]

This is great for a theater set, but you'd be horrified if this was painted somewhere in your house. It looks like shit up close.

[u/bcfuggles]

So Awesome! He really could charge for that artistry. I hope he is.

[u/whimofthecosmos]

"be amazed"... at how shit this looks.

[u/No-Salary-473]

r/whatthefuck

[u/Jgoody1990]

Trees hate this one trick

[u/Content-Witness-4452]

Id never be able to tell.

[u/Sufficient_Matter585]

I hate interior wood paneling.

[u/Nhiago_cchaves]

Esse é o menino q me parou há 5 anos atrás na praia em Maceió e me pediu para mostrar a arte dele, desenhando na cerâmica. Ele cresceu e agora está desenhando no teto, q orgulho

[u/Will_Knot_Respond]

The longer you look at it, the worse it gets... Yikes

[u/Toadsted]

Must have worked as a gyn before this; lots of experience with pap smears.

[u/RaymondLuxuryYacht]

It looks great at a glance but less good the more you look at it

[u/SeahorseRevolution]

Bot post

[u/TrueBoot4567]

No gloves

[u/epiclyfuct]

I’m going to be honest, that looks like absolute shit

[u/riftshioku]

I feel like this might be more expensive than buying actual wood? Like surely it takes a hell of a lot of practice to make paint look exactly like wood and I doubt that's cheap.

[u/TripleTacticTalents]

Idk isn’t there something about not painting with your hand?

[u/OffbrandDirt]

Good effort, I guess.

[u/Hopkinsad0384]

In art, imperfection is the ultimate perfection.

[u/SoggyBoysenberry7703]

I’ve seen kids stuff with hand painted wood texture. This is what that’s meant for. When it’s not meant to replicate it perfectly

[u/kalnoreth-i5]

That's neat.

[u/BackgroundScary8632]

Why did I read this and think he’s doing all of that with ONLY his hands. No rag or paintbrush lol.

[u/Amazing_Fix_2399]

Cancer lives in those hands

[u/WhatABlindManSees]

That's way too many knots in those boards.

[u/thedifferenceisnt]

Ah yes the "dirty protest" technique. 

[u/Aims101]

It looks good from far but is it safe?

[u/DantetheMarco]

This...greatly decreases my trust in modern architecture

[u/Setjah_]

Yeah we can tell by how it looks. Just dosen't look good at all. But thats maybe just me who sees wood furniture/texture everyday..

[u/pakistani_Soldha_619]

NGL this looks dope, I likey it

[u/CanoePickLocks]

That’s a white guy.

[u/daroach1414]

I’ll take quarter sawn please. Plain sawn looks like shit

[u/CaptSlow49]

I’d watch an ASMR video of this irregardless that the fake wood texture looks like shit.

[u/ReactionActual4790]

Amazing talent/experience. Had a good friend she and her son could do the same with gray and tan paint to mimic peggy cyprus in our old farmhouse many moons ago. I sat mesmerized at their talent as well.