One of the most emblematic places in Mula is Casa Pintada, built about 1770 by Diego María de Blaya y Molina.

This three-floored palace was built resting on a typological model that is common to all the Mediterranean eastern provinces of Spain.

The façade, completely decorated with popular Sgraffito, is the most peculiar part of the building. Until 1978, Casa Pintada was preserved entirely, and the condition of the Sgraffito was reasonably good. Despite this, the right side of the building burned during a fire, affecting the three floors as well. Other parts of the building had to be demolish afterwards.

After its demolition, the building did not suffer any important modification, apart from the detachment of a part of the cornice. Thus, from 1980, the condition of the building was the following: three quarters of the house - including the main stairs - were still standing. The other half was a lot, whose front still preserved a part of the scratched façade.

Year 1986. A purchasing plan is carried out in order to restore building in historical precincts and turn them into public promotion houses. The plan considered, besides housing construction, the possibility of building rooms and equipments that contributed to the re-utilization of historical precincts and providing them with the life they had in the past. Thus, he dealt with the restoration project and the building of 6 public promotion houses at the back of the demolished area.

A documentation and investigation task was carried out before any kind of action over the building. The graphic documentation, previous to the partial demolition of the house, had to be taken into account, as well as the comments of the people who lived in them, the study of the houses with the same building structure - as it has been said, a square ground plan with a central tower -, which is really popular along the Mediterranean. From the beginning, the aim was to preserve as much as possible, and rebuild just what is considered as vital, resting on the avoidance of historical falseness, that is to say, making visible the difference between what has been rebuilt and the original part.

Among the restoration works, it was essential to recover the disappeared Sgraffito, unique in Murcia, as it was which gave a special idiosyncrasy and even name to the house. By analyzing photographies of the house before the demolition, it could be checked that most of the Sgraffito could be obtained by tracing the preserved ones, because the motifs were identical. Once this process finished, an unforeseen surprise appeared at the lower part of the façade: unknown fragments with Sgraffito, with nature motifs of a greater quality than in the upper floors, representing a hunting scene. Taking this finding into account, it might be possible that the main façade was totally covered with Sgraffito.

Beside this, the restoration work, ended in 2000, was focused on the most representative places of the building. Thus, the stairs were also restored, a constant in civil architecture at that time, and with famous antecedents - as Vandelvira in Úbeda and Baeza, in which the huge polychromed and silvered coat of arms can also be highlighted. Also the living room on the first floor, the most representative room of the house and probably destined to helther important visitors or events. The warehouse, an L-shaped room where some earthen jars are still kept, built in the pavement, was restored as well, and finally, the courtyard and the chambers