Hmm. In California we call “California coolers” pie safes. Yes, a pie safe is something different elsewhere but that’s what the old folks in California call them. It’s common to see them blocked up in old houses and apartment buildings in the Bay Area. I have also heard someone call it a “crisper” but that was one person and they didn’t grow up in California. Also, you missed an advantage of plaster. It can handle a greater variety of humidity without mildew. A skim coat of marble dust and lime makes it so it doesn’t need to be painted, until somebody decides to paint it or paper it. Just for the love of God, use the picture rail. Anyone who puts a nail in plaster to hang a picture will be sentenced to an afterlife of burning pain.
Hmm. In California we call “California coolers” pie safes. Yes, a pie safe is something different elsewhere but that’s what the old folks in California call them. It’s common to see them blocked up in old houses and apartment buildings in the Bay Area. I have also heard someone call it a “crisper” but that was one person and they didn’t grow up in California.
Also, you missed an advantage of plaster. It can handle a greater variety of humidity without mildew. A skim coat of marble dust and lime makes it so it doesn’t need to be painted, until somebody decides to paint it or paper it. Just for the love of God, use the picture rail. Anyone who puts a nail in plaster to hang a picture will be sentenced to an afterlife of burning pain.