{"id":329,"date":"2023-04-26T03:48:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T03:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:01:57","slug":"architectural-details-that-arent-really-there-in-lambertville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/architectural-details-that-arent-really-there-in-lambertville\/","title":{"rendered":"Architectural details that aren’t really there in Lambertville"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was walking around side streets to get away from the crowds at Shadfest in Lambertville<\/a> when I noticed this charming little house. But as I got closer, I realized that some of the architectural details that I had seen from afar were in fact not what I thought they were.<\/p>\n

The front window (seen above) had the decorative wooden fish (a shad, perhaps?) leaning on the ledge to distract the eye, but as I looked closer, I realized the shutters were actually painted on and not real shutters at all! I find it kind of funny (yet interesting and creative at the same time) that rather than buy and install real shutters, the home owner decided to paint them on instead … a bit of trompe l’oeil<\/a> at work. Then I noticed that this theme continues on the side of the house (below), where this time even the window is painted, along with the shutters and the suggestion of climbing ivy.<\/p>\n

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Painted trompe l’oeil window, shutters and climbing ivy on a home in Lambertville, NJ.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once you realize this window is painted, it reveals that this full side of the house has no windows at all – as the homeowner, it might be nice to open up the wall and install a window at some point, but for now the trompe l’oeil appearance of the window will suffice. My curiosity has me asking: considering the outside of the house has this interesting creativity, I wonder what kind of surprises one might find inside?<\/p>\n

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Street art showing painted elements on a wall in Lambertville NJ.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was walking around side streets to get away from the crowds at Shadfest in Lambertville when I noticed this charming little house. But as I got closer, I realized that some of the architectural details that I had seen from afar were in fact not what I thought they were. The front window (seen … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,36,40,48],"tags":[93,429,626,760],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-found-art","category-photo-of-the-day","category-road-trips","category-street-photography","tag-architectural-details","tag-lambertville","tag-real-estate","tag-trompe-loeil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3269,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/3269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}