A couple of hundred yards away from us were a handful of pink plaster houses: a settlement formed thirty years ago by refugees from a Kurdish village feud.
Dozens of old wood-frame and plaster houses in the eastern working-class neighborhoods of Paris were bulldozed to make room for generic apartment blocks.
Although many of the respondents, 82%% live in their own houses, the adopters seem to be better-off as a larger percentage of 84%% of them live in cement plastered house walls and floors.
On occasion, plastered house (and sometimes mosque) walls were even inscribed with ship graffiti, often around key thresholds (Garlake and Garlake 1964).
Especially wonderful are several implicitly Cubist, jigsawed views of clapboard mill buildings in Vermont and roughly plastered houses in France.
"I plastered the house with flags and that and it has just carried on every year, with the rugby, cricket, the Olympics, the Euros... all the big tournaments," he said.
The second floor of the industrial building, which appeared to be mostly brick covered in plaster, apparently housed a large party space.
In descending order, the following themes were reported as being addressed: personal and environmental hygiene (83%), cooking practices (75%), cleaning and plastering of house (47%), construction of pit latrine and waste disposal (37%), immunisation of children (23%), separation of people and animals (22%), and use of contraception (13%).
Orange is weighing new restrictions to limit political signs after officials there said some residents went overboard in last year's election, plastering their houses with placards.
You don't casually set a novel in Croatia, with a book jacket promising a mosaic to be discovered under the rotting plaster of the house, without every sign pointing to a story which will expose the savagery that ripped through the former Yugoslavia 20 years ago.
And chipped plaster throughout the house offers colorful peeks at old frescoes long since covered over.
