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Service VI

Specialty Decorative Finishes

Surfaces carry the atmosphere of a room. Applied by hand, they hold light the way plaster and stone do.

Specialty Decorative Finishes

This is old craft: layered glazes, lime and plaster textures, fine skip trowel, and murals painted in place. It is slow, quiet work and it shows in the depth of the wall.

Decorative finishes are how a new house stops feeling new and a plain room becomes memorable — often for less than the millwork or stone it replaces.

We match finishes to the light in the room and the materials around them, so the result reads as part of the architecture rather than decoration applied to it.

Custom Finish Possibilities

From quiet mineral movement to bold layered color, each surface can be shaped for the room, the light, and the feeling you want to create. These examples illustrate the range of custom textures and faux finishes available. Every treatment is developed individually.

Bedroom with a warm sand burnished Venetian plaster wall, linen bedding, timber beam, and a mountain view through a black-framed window.

Warm Sand Venetian Plaster

Soft burnished movement brings warmth and depth to a restful bedroom.

Bedroom with a sage green mineral limewash wall behind a reclaimed wood bed, daylight from a tall window revealing the mottled texture.

Sage Mineral Limewash

Layered mineral color creates an organic surface that shifts gently with the light.

Bathroom with a bronze metallic hand-troweled plaster wall, floating walnut vanity, stone countertop, and warm sconce lighting.

Bronze Metallic Plaster

A rich hand-troweled finish adds warmth, movement, and a quiet metallic glow.

Bathroom with pale limestone tadelakt-inspired plaster walls, an arched niche, freestanding oval tub, and oak vanity in daylight.

Limestone Tadelakt Inspired Plaster

A softly polished mineral surface creates seamless movement and a calm stone-like character.

Great room with a large fine skip trowel textured wall, exposed timber ceiling beams, stone fireplace, and mountain views.

Fine Skip Trowel

Subtle raised texture gives a large wall depth while remaining light, natural, and refined.

Living room corner with a deep indigo layered glaze wall, leather armchair, walnut credenza, and low evening lamp light.

Indigo Layered Glaze

Translucent layers of smoky blue and charcoal create atmosphere, dimension, and dramatic depth.

Related services

I

Building Consultation

Clear, paid advisory sessions on property, siting, solar, water, and material choices — before anything is drawn or poured.

II

Conceptual Home Design

Rob works with you before architectural drawings begin — clarifying ideas, improving layouts, and solving practical problems early.

III

Pre-Construction Planning

Sequencing, budget realism, permitting strategy, and long-term maintenance thinking before construction begins.