entry posted on July 15, 2011

Painted faux stone arch detail, Pittsburgh, a photo by John Hiemstra on Flickr.

“Final final” picture of the faux stone painting project I completed earlier this year in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh. This image shows some of the more detailed stone blocks, properly befitting the main entrance of the home :) and the “faux grout” treatment I added, using a custom mix of sand, paint, glue and the like. If you saw the “before” pictures of this job, you will recall that the stone “blocks” are three dimensional, carved in to this surface; my “grout” gently fills the incisions in the same way as real grout would with real stone block.