Decorate your old house with a pencil
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Decorate your old house with a pencil
Here's a trick well-known to old-time painters. The stucco coating on the exterior wall surfaces of nineteenth-century masonry houses was marked out to look like blocks of stone. Narrow horizontal and vertical grooves were impressed into the surface of the stucco coating to give the walls the appearance of the regular blocks of stone known as ashlar. After repainting the outside of your house run a carpenter's pencil along the grooves. This sharpens up the appearance of the building and reinforces the impression of 'stone' blocks. The impression works best if the paint chosen is in a stone colour.
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