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Originally Posted by East7thStreet
Buncha stuccoists on this board. If done right there is nothing wrong with a little stucco. It's when you have those massive blank walls with no windows that it looks ugly. But all blank walls look horrible no matter the material used.
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Absolutely this is true, and I come from Staten Island, the land of "instead of renovating our pre-war or 70s era home with quality materials, let's plaster it all over with stucco that (poorly) imitates the architectural flourishes there before." The only time stucco has been pulled off in these parts is with the new imitation-brownstone-style homes they've been building since 2000ish. Even there, there's hits and misses. At least in Arizona, they have the Spanish-style and Adobe look to defend the copious use of stucco there. Then there are the new mid-rises in Los Angeles, some of which are absolutely sublime, and define a style for LA the way the late-19th-century architecture of Paris defines that city.
The point of this digression: like with all building materials, when done correctly, stucco can be stunning.
