I have not had good luck with such faux finishes, and my suggestion would be oak veneer.
That said, early in my career as an architect the firm I was working for designed a major addition to the U.S. headquarters of a European company (basically tripled the size of the building). The entrance lobby was lozenge-shaped, oak-paneled, and was to remain. BUT ... on one side there was an alcove with a door to a small office. That was going away, so we needed to fill in the alcove and match the appearance of the oak paneling, which was probably 40 years old at the time.
I was handling most of the field inspections on the project, and for the longest time I would arrive on site, walk into the lobby, and find the alcove patched with sheetrock and unfinished. I kept asking when and how they were going to finish that, and the answer was always, "Don't worry about it." And then one day I walked in, and the alcove patch had disappeared! I mean it was GONE -- I knew exactly where it was, and from six feet away you couldn't tell anything had ever been done to that section of the wall. I asked the project manager for the contractor how they had managed to do such a good job in the one week since I was last on site.
He smiled and said, "Scotty."
Scotty was their lead painter, an old Scotsman who knew how to do faux finishes. The patch wasn't oak veneer at all, it was paint on sheetrock. I was blown away. But I've seen "columns" painted on walls in European palaces that looked like real marble from two feet away, so it can be done. But I doubt an amateur is going to be happy with the results.
