We built our house in 1980. The materials of that time, not only difficult to access and posted in long queues, were not of poor quality.
After a few years, we had to insulate the building. We did this at a low cost, using gray glue-coated polystyrene. It didn't look interesting, but the finances didn't allow for more decorating.
And so several more years passed. We started to think about a new setting for our home. When successive professionals demanded exorbitant sums for their services, the idea was born to entrust specialists only with the upper part of the facade. I made the bottom one myself.
I started work full of anxiety about the end result. Using a putty knife, I applied the adhesive mortar unevenly on the previously primed plaster. In the still soft structure, I drew vertical and horizontal lines to obtain an imitation of sandstone. More meters were created, and ideas for new decorations were born in my head. After the façade had dried, I applied UNI-Grunt, colored with a pigment, with a brush. I tried to make the emulsion penetrate every crack.
What effect I achieved, see for yourself. Our house is unique now. Because of this, I have satisfaction and no one will persuade me that in order to live beautifully, you have to be rich.
Lidia Nowakowska
