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Stone cottage, Hathersage · 2024

Tarn Cottage

Limewash, not paint. It is a translucent mineral finish — it never fully hides the wall behind it, so the plaster keeps showing through however many coats go on. The colour on this wall is the plaster and the wash together, and it never resolves to the flat chalk on the swatch. That is the point of choosing it.

Chalk limewash
Bare lime plaster
Limewash — never fully hides
Tarn Cottage — Stone cottage, Hathersage
04 · 2024

Tarn Cottage

Stone cottage, Hathersage

Limewash, not paint. It is a translucent mineral finish — it never fully hides the wall behind it, so the plaster keeps showing through however many coats go on. The colour on this wall is the plaster and the wash together, and it never resolves to the flat chalk on the swatch. That is the point of choosing it.

on the wall the spec
Coat 2 of 2 Chalk limewash

Limewash never fully hides — the wall on the swatch is not the wall in the room, at any coat.