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David Reynolds Lacey

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  1. As Poe was writing in the mid 19th. C. and the story is thought to be set in the 18th C., cement block cellars were not around and cellars would have been brick or stone and I think that stone always gives a greater atmosphere to a cellar and is also easier to fake. However the walls of many purpose-built wine cellars (where the tale is set) were crudely plastered with a lime based mortar mixed with animal hair/wool and given a coat of light coloured lime wash every so often to keep them looking bright and thus reflecting light from the candles or oil lamps. So you could build walls from 4x3 studding, covered in plasterboard and roughly coated with a light-weight gypsum based plaster, finished coarsely with a wooden float (rather than a smoothing trowel) and then painted with an off-white emulsion paint, suitably aged. You may also add a couple of niches and maybe an arched doorway with studded door for effect. Or you could come to England and shoot it in my genuine 17th.C. wine cellar :rolleyes:
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