Creative use of Stucco Italiano Marmorino Classic in fun new hot spot, Sun Liquor. Just took photos with iphone, will post better pictures soon.
If you’re trying to do a finish based on something else, like marble, wood, or an old European stucco wall, make sure you have good visual references. We have dozens of books I refer to constantly. If you’re a serious decorative artisan, you should too. Even if you’re not that creative, just be a good copycat.
Picked this one up recently, it’s a good one:
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Been a couple of weeks now since I went to World of Concrete in Las Vegas. I’d like to share with you a few things I found to be kind of interesting down there.
SPIDERLATH: This is a simple but kind of ingenious alternative to metal lath for exterior scratch and brown. Have never used it nor do I know anyone who has, but my friend Bill with Elite Plastering thought it looked promising.
Here’s a link to the Spiderlath site.
JIFFY MIXER: This is a fairly well distributed brand of mixing paddle for plaster and stucco. Don’t know why it never came across my radar before. Most paddles don’t work for Venetian Plaster because they scratch the insides of our buckets, and once you get off the phone with an installer that has little pieces of plastic in his/her Marmorino Classic, you make sure it doesn’t happen again. The paddles from Jiffy Mixer have a rounded bottom which helps keep the paddle from cutting up your buckets. It mixes really quickly also. We are thinking of distributing these since they work so well for us.
Here’s a link to the Jiffy Mixer Site.
I thought I had found a really great penetrating sealer as well, which initially made me very happy. Finding a good penetrating sealer for lime plasters can be a little challenging. Unfortunately this sealer mattes out our finishes, so it would only work for something like an exterior Intonachino application. I was hoping we might be able to use it as an alternative for sealing Tadelakt showers and the like. Oh well…
Those were the standouts for me, aside from the decorative cements I saw. I’ll get to that next post.…
Congratulations to our good friend Lars Hansen and his wife Cheryl. They’ve recently opened a beautiful little store in Durango, CO focused on natural building materials.
Lars hails from Denmark. I just loved that place when I went years ago – everyone riding bicycles around Copenhagen – very civilized. Lars has been running a clay and lime plastering installation business for many years and this place is a natural extension of his contracting work.
From the Durango Herald:
“We want consumers to know that all-natural finishes aren’t exclusively for adobe or straw-bale houses,” Hansen said. “They’re available for any house.”
The full article is here.
We are very pleased that Lars and Cheryl have chosen Stucco Italiano to represent lime plasters in their store. Best of luck to you!
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Stucco Italiano is a member of the US Green Building Council. Naturally high in pH, lime finishes act as an anti-bacterial surface, neutralizing the development of organic substances such as mold and fungus.
Non-toxic and green, our lime plasters are ideal for interiors or exteriors. A breathable system, our lime plasters allow water vapor to permeate freely so moisture evaporates quickly, unlike acrylic finishes which can trap moisture inside the wall.
