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VENETIAN PLASTER

“Living with lime-plastered walls is like living inside a Rothko painting,” says interior designer Leigh Herzig— anyone who has used it will know she’s talking about Venetian plaster. This material has been used to finish walls since ancient times. More recently Venetian plaster is increasingly used in homes of style, thanks to the popularity of plaster-loving designers such as Axel Vervoordt and Vincent Van Duysen.

Over 130 colours available to match your design and taste. Over 100 metallic and pearlescent glazes to achieve any ambience or aesthetic.

Protecting the surface and retaining the natural lustre is achieved using 100% natural traditional soaps and bee’s waxes. In wet areas we have leading edge water based epoxy resins to provide water resistance or complete water proofing.

Call us to discuss your ideas, if you can imagine it we can create it!

So what is Venetian Plaster?

Venetian plaster is a general term that refers to putty made from fired limestone combined with water. It’s then mixed together to make lime plaster. So Venetian plaster and lime plaster are the same thing. There is a modern acrylic variant that has similar properties. Porters Fresco is a good example.

When lime plaster is applied to walls and exposed to the carbon dioxide in the air, the mixture turns back into limestone. So it starts as limestone and ends as limestone—truly magical and natural! It’s the same stuff our ancestors used in ancient Greece and Egypt. Incredibly, it has endured the test of time, both physically and aesthetically.

What differentiates Venetian plaster or lime plaster from other plasters is that there are no aggregates mixed in. Tadelakt and Marmorino, for example, include aggregates like marble, granite, or glass. They’re similar in appearance to Venetian, but those aggregates add a thickness and an underlying subtle texture to the overall appearance.

How would you describe the look and feel Venetian plaster lends a space?

The look is earthy and soft. The application in thin translucent layers creates an iridescent finish, giving the appearance of depth and movement.

There is an interplay of natural light and lime plaster that is exhilarating. It appears as if there’s simultaneously a warm light emanating from within the plaster and a vibration of light hovering above it. The effect is a feeling of lightness and stillness in the space. The plaster both warms up a pared-down space and enhances the focus on the essential.

A wall can be characterised and customised very easily with horizontal lines, verticals, paintings, rectangles, stencils and more removing pre-manufactured limitations with a finished depth of approximately 3.5mm depending on the texture.

WHY CHOOSE US

With over 15 years experience and a real focus on customer satisfaction, you can rely on us for your next project. We provide a professional renovation and installation services with a real focus on customer satisfaction.

  • Financial Responsibility to Our Clients
  • Superior Quality and Craftsmanship
  • Quality and Value to the Projects We Deliver
  • Highest Standards in Cost Control
  • On Time and on Budget
  • Real Focus on Customer Satisfaction

POPULAR QUESTIONS

  • What are some upsides and downsides a homeowner should know about before springing for Venetian plaster?

    The new products are very low-maintenance and very durable. You used to need to re-plaster a whole wall to cover one scuff or blemish, but those days are gone. Today there’s an array of lime plasters that can be easily repaired in patches and then blended with the rest of the wall.

    Most minor scuffs can be removed with a damp cloth and mild detergent, or a light sanding of the surface with 1000-grit sandpaper or a fine steel wool. It’s a lot lower-maintenance than people think, pretty much as flexible as paint in terms of application and maintenance.

    Plasters with aggregates, however, are a bit higher-maintenance. It’s trickier to fix blemishes without leaving a mark, so it may be necessary to re-plaster the entire wall to hide the blemish perfectly. Also in applying them, it’s necessary to complete a whole wall, corner to corner, in one go.

    If necessary, it can be protected with natural products for water resistance or made fully waterproof according to requirement.

  • What texture and style options are available?

    Sufaces

    Venetian plaster, allows you to create stunning artistic effects on any stable surface.

    Textured Venetian plaster adds the stunning finishing touches, with the texture instantly providing an element of intrigue. Textured Venetian plaster can beautifully replicate the natural beauty of marble, stone or sand.

    Textures include concrete, polished stone, split stone, machined stone, limestone, marbled, granite, and many more. There are also options to use stencils and specialist stamps to create effects like crocodile skin, elephant skin, snake skin and more. Popular are effects called Zen and Bamboo.

    Silk Threads – The sumptuous feeling of a wall covered in pure silk with its magic shine, and the contrast offered by its matt threads. 169 colours.

    Colour

    130 standard colours available – all can be mixed to create a customer colour or used in combination with metallic and pearlescent coatings or mixed with wax to provide warm highlights.

    Gold and Metallic. Over 100 metallic colours gold mother-of- pearl fakes to warm your walls with iridescent golden refections. The appearance of brush strokes are highlighted by light skimming the surface.

    Pearlescent product are available in 169 colours. These are coatings with flakes of silver mother of pearl, to illuminate your walls with natural pearly or iridescent reflections. A white mother of pearl paint enhanced by marble powders will light up your home with natural pearly reflections. The finish has a degree of movement which will elegantly enhance your surroundings.

    Consisting of flakes of gold mother of pearl, it warms your walls with iridescent golden reflections.

    For something really wild, we have a transparent resin that during the day is completely transparent and the background colour remains unchanged. The surface previously illuminated by direct light, will, in the dark, light up highlighting aesthetic effects and plays of light.

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