 During the 18th century embellishing buildings with decoration and adopting elements from Chinese and Neo-Classical architecture became common.Finials, a chinoiserie fad in both Europe and North America, appeared on gable-ends and buttery pinnacles.While the original, ten-to-fifty inch Chinese finials were elaborate designs of porcelain glazed yellow, green, red, blue, orange and buff, those in Bermuda, made of brittle local limestone, remained stone-coloured and rarely exceeded fifteen inches (381 mm).