Color Washing
While it takes practice, we prefer to use water-based colorwashing. You have little work time, but can attain incredibly sheer and blended finishes, without the fumes and dry times of resin or oil based glazes. And, the colors stay true over time. Our finishes are brushed over a white background, or any shade of your choosing. We can use existing painted walls, but highly recommend that their surface be in good shape. We can color wash both smooth and textured walls. We recommend softer colors, such as pink, cream, pale beige, and yellow ochre for large areas; bold colors are better used below a dado or chair rail.
Before proceeding, be sure to take a good long time to review color choices and types of glazes.
If working with architectural ornament, be sure to review the moldings, ceiling medallions, spandrels, or other ornament and decide how it will be treated before proceeding with walls. Samples shown here for customer consideration.
Colorwashed pink walls with lightly ragged on taupe finish
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Once a sample is picked from a sample board, debut the finish on the wall in a small area before proceeding with the full room.
A yellow and pale grey color wash was used to create a simple fairly uniform faux plaster on drywall
Color washing on the ceiling, with a bit of feather veining, sealed with matte varnish, create the effect of a pale green marble. Anaglypta ceiling border and fly-specked moldings completed the exotic effect.
This white box of a room is getting a pale grey-blue cloud like ceiling finish via color washing and sponging
Color washing in soft off-whites complements the mosaic tiles installed by Urban Revivals
Wallpapers are available that can imitate color washing, shown here in a three-part Victorian wallpaper design, with the main area looking like a green-grey colorwash
Columns and decoupage go particularly well with colorwashed walls. Half pilaster shown here. (More on decoupage)
A white colorwash is really a form of antiquing, akin to liming, and is effective when you are created a weathered or "shabby chic" look, shown here on narrow doors(More on againg and antiquing)