On a custom high-end build with groin-vaulted ceilings and grand archways and staircases, sure, but… just take heed otherwise. I’ve seen it done in new builds and depending on the architecture, it sometimes works, sometimes feels out of place. It’s my relatively firm belief that unless you live in a very old building (at least 80 years old) or a crumbling loft (I guess same rule) then be VERY careful about doing Venetian plaster or any sort of extreme faux finish as it will look well, “faux” and therefore could date itself pretty quickly. So I started pinning the texture that I love. ![]() The texture is subtle but adds just a little movement to the walls. Our LA house (that’s my bedroom in the bottom left shot above) has 100-year-old plastered walls and I love it. Now, if you are scared, I was, too, but then he showed me pictures and I thought to myself, well, I like a textured wall when done well and in a color of my choosing then I think it would look pretty. As a “smooth coat lover,” I approached my GC at the mountain house and he has convinced me to save money and time by doing a slight “hand” texture-not full plaster, but some in order to save money on smooth finish and instead use something that is more forgiving without going full orange peel. Our budget isn’t endless (I haven’t looked at the budget in a while for the mountain house for fear of nausea, spontaneous hysteria, depression, anxiety, etc), but let’s just say we are trying to cut costs on finishes where we can. Every little tiny crack or imperfection will only be amplified once it is painted. It helps to hide everything with a texture whereas the smooth coat is the opposite. Orange peel walls are dramatically more cost-effective than smooth flat finish walls because you can be a little quicker with the application and you won’t notice the little differences in everything once it is painted. Without going into too much of a backstory or financial lesson. No, there aren’t orange peels cladding your walls it is just a term that was generated to quickly talk about the texture that the walls have. Let’s review with this little cheat sheet the different types of texture, in case you aren’t familiar with the “orange peel” term that I just threw out there. Was it the smartest decision to do on an investment property that we were trying to keep within budget and on top? Maybe not. Those smooth walls feel fresh and high end and modern just like the house should. Am I glad that we did this for this house? YES. Not only was the labor more but every time we had to adjust a junction box two inches, the sheetrock guys had to come back out to smooth coat it. Sure, I knew it would be more expensive but I don’t think I knew HOW much more (again, triple). In the Portland house (bottom right corner of the below grid), my impulse was to go with a smooth flat finish not knowing that I was basically tripling the paint labor and materials cost of just going with a standard orange peel. I want these rooms to be edited, curated, uncluttered and just calm and simple (with the perfect everything) but still warm and interesting.īut this house is a 1960s totally renovated rustic Scandi-style chalet and I fear that plastering all these walls would, well, perhaps cost too much if done correctly. I don’t want to add paneling all over the walls or molding. The rest of the home is filled with amazing architecture, big dramatic ceilings, or special finishes that we are putting in but these guest rooms are simple as they are now. ![]() ![]() The risk is that I want more texture on the walls because there really isn’t a lot of interesting architecture in these guest rooms-no moldings, no wall paneling, no ceiling paneling, just really pretty wood windows (but only on one end) and beautiful wood flooring. I’m dying to get away from the all white wall trend (I’m not alone here either… Arlyn wrote a post waxing poetic on this exact topic yesterday) and the guest bedrooms in this house are the perfect place to do it. Like all good design risks, I’m about to dance a fine line of dated/try-hard OR beautiful and textural…and before we all embarrass ourselves, I thought it was worth a conversation with 50k of my favorite friends.Īs you might remember, nine years ago when we started the mountain fixer, I wrote a post about doing some moody wall colors for the bedrooms and this desire has not changed.
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