DIY rendering - Bagging?

[Thingsthatgo]

Our house is a lovely red brick, but we have an ugly breeze block front wall. It's quite long because it goes around the front and up the side of the house.
At the moment it is covered in Ivy to disguise it, but I would like to make it look better. We cannot afford to change it, but I am wondering about rendering it, or cladding it. Is there anything we can DIY without it looking awful?

Do you want it to look better from the house side or the street side? Would it be possible to put up a fence on one side?

What is it that you don’t like? If it’s the colour then you could paint it, but if it is just the fact that it is a breeze block wall then you will always know it is a breeze block wall no matter how you try to disguise it.

Id probably leave the ivy there tbh.

How awful it will look will depend on your experience with plastering and render. See the other thread about the wall which was bodged and now has more cracks in it than you can count.

I'd like it to look better from the street side. We have lots of plants and bushes in our front garden, so we can't see much of it from our house.
If rendering is too tricky, maybe cladding?

I'd just encourage the ivy or other trailing plants to grow over it. I wouldn't be bothered about making it look nice for people passing on the street!

You could get some brick slips and use those so it looks more like a brick wall not concrete?

Sorry brick slips would be expensive! I'd knock up some plaster, render the wall yourself and give it a lick of paint, black would hide all the not so perfect rendering!

I would clad it. Wood cladding on a breezeblock wall makes it endlessly nicer, and you can then train climbers over it.

I like fairly narrow woods with gaps between them, preferably against a black background.

Thanks @startstopengine. I guess I could give it a go. It's not going to look any worse than the breeze blocks!