This will be a MUCH shorter post! Victorian foundation walls can be brick, field stone, block, or concrete. Foundations do not provide as many choices, and each type has a couple of different methods of achieving that affect. I decided on a field stone foundation because the house was already solid brick! Field stone can be achieved by using paper clay, patterns printed from the computer, real stone (very heavy) or cardboard egg cartons. If there are other methods, I am just not aware of them yet. I quickly settled on cardboard egg carton because of the texture and how some of the pieces on the curved part can be incorporated to give the impression of the round side of a stone. Tear the carton into round, stone size pieces. You will want large and small pieces. I pre-painted the foundation a slate grey to simulate mortar. I didn't want to fill in the spaces with anything afterwards because I did not want to lose the depth of the stones. Then I began gluing them on by comp