Moldy House Photos

When mold reaches a house photo, the result is fuzzy grey or white patches, brown foxing spots and a musty smell that comes with the print. The cause is nearly always years in a humid attic, a cardboard box on a concrete floor or a plastic sleeve that trapped moisture, and house photos kept in albums, frames and boxes were all exposed to it.

The restoration reads the moldy house photo as a repair job: it removes the mold and rebuilds what was underneath from the surrounding grain, keeping the porch details, the windows and the house number as photographed. Faces of the family home with someone standing on the porch or out in the yard that were lost to the mold are plausible reconstructions, so compare them with other pictures.

For moldy house photos the order is mold first, faces second, upscale last, each step taking the previous result. Standard suits a house photo for a screen; Pro or Max gives a moldy print more detail for reprinting.