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In lugnet.build.arch, Shaun Sullivan writes:
> The inside is looking great - tan floor, black balconies, various pieces of
> stored merchandise and various accoutrements. However, the outside looks a
> bit ... sparse. Like any warehouse, there are some broad expanses of plain
> wall. Does anybody have any ideas for some external detailing that can make
> the outside more aesthetically pleasing, without sacrificing the
> utilitarian feel of the building?
I know you're not interested in putting signs on the walls, but how about
spots where signs used to be and have been incompletely scraped off? A
couple of big roughly-rectangular stains of light gray, yellow, or tan,
might work.
Other nice vertical stains from water damage might also look good, coming
down from any outcropping from which water might be expected to collect and
drip. You might also have dirty spots on the walls wherever you've put your
dumpsters, garbage cans, stacks of wooden pallets, or junked-up cars. And
what self-respecting warehouse isn't surrounded by those things.
For a third idea, I saw this picture on the Rev. Brendan Powell Smith's site
a little while back:
http://www.thereverend.com/lego/brikingham033.html
Check out the ivy growing on the side of the library. No reason an old
warehouse couldn't have some ivy here and there. Also consider the use of
neat rows of shrubberies.
- Mike.
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