When I was working construction, we had to put so many doodads onto buildings made of plastic or shitty plaster to look like brick/stone/whatever. And it was all cheap garbage, but the bourgeois owners wanted it on their buildings.
I have a story about these horrifying $50,000 plaster columns this trophy wife wanted that didn’t actually support anything and didn’t match the rest of the house. But hey, it’s your money. Don’t listen to your architect or the stone masons you hired who all recommended doing it for less money using matching hand-cut stone. They also insisted on ordering this expensive ass fireplace mantle made of shitty material instead of letting the carpenter or mason do a custom, more personal piece.
There was so much shit going on with that house and it had over $1 million budget pre-recession. I imagine there’s even more in LA.
When I was working construction, we had to put so many doodads onto buildings made of plastic or shitty plaster to look like brick/stone/whatever. And it was all cheap garbage, but the bourgeois owners wanted it on their buildings.
I have a story about these horrifying $50,000 plaster columns this trophy wife wanted that didn’t actually support anything and didn’t match the rest of the house. But hey, it’s your money. Don’t listen to your architect or the stone masons you hired who all recommended doing it for less money using matching hand-cut stone. They also insisted on ordering this expensive ass fireplace mantle made of shitty material instead of letting the carpenter or mason do a custom, more personal piece.
There was so much shit going on with that house and it had over $1 million budget pre-recession. I imagine there’s even more in LA.