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Create a Faux Brick Accent Wall with Paint in 4 Easy Steps

Here’s a great paint can hack to use when you need to store leftover paint. Paint your wall with the base color. This color ...
Concord Monitor

Granite Geek: You know what stone walls need? A taxonomy!

There are hundreds of stone walls in Lyme. Stone walls in east Concord. State geologist Rick Chormann and driving force behind the New Hampshire Stone Wall Project looks over a LIDAR readout on the ...
The Atlantic

The Simple, Ancient Idea That Can Replace Concrete Walls

A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to construct ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Why the Ancient Craft of Dry Stone Walling Still Holds So Much Appeal in the 21st Century

Artisans around the world are ditching the mortar and embracing an old method of building rock walls Clachtoll Broch, a Scottish dwelling with dry stone walls, was built at least 2,000 years ago. Its ...