Venetian Plaster

lilmrs Posted: Mar 19, 2005 09:08 PM

Venetian Plaster

Has anyone painted their walls with the venetian plaster from Behr?

philby Posted: Mar 20, 2005 07:34 AM

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I finished my in-laws living room with the yellow ochre like color. It looks good and my mother in law loves it.

skew Posted: Mar 20, 2005 07:49 AM

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any pics?

ETA: i checked on the behr site and did not see any pics. i will do a search.

TIA

lilmrs Posted: Mar 20, 2005 08:09 AM

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Tara- Was it hard to do or just time consuming?

Christine- Here is a picture I found online

skew Posted: Mar 20, 2005 09:06 AM

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thanks for posting. for some reason i thought it was the painted decorative raised wall covering (tin tile type).

LisaT Posted: Mar 20, 2005 12:30 PM

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we did our bathroom w/venetian plaster. Love it! We may do our kitchen as well.

It wasn't hard to do, and wasn't any more time consuming than other faux finishes.

peabody Posted: Mar 20, 2005 05:08 PM

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Posted by lilmrs

Tara- Was it hard to do or just time consuming?

Christine- Here is a picture I found online

I don't think it was hard, I think it was more time consumming. The thing with venetian plaster, is once you do it, it can't really go back. What I mean is you would have to sand down the walls if you want the walls to be smooth.

I'll double check with Phil, but I remember him saying to my mom, 'Are you sure you want this? Is alot of work to go back to a regular wall if you don't like it?'

LisaT Posted: Mar 20, 2005 06:25 PM

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our walls are pretty smooth - in fact they feel MORE smooth than the regularly painted walls. We would probably have to sand a little to repaint, but not much at all.

Maybe it depends on how you put it on - we put it on for a smooth feel with a textured appearance (having sanded AFTER putting it on). But you can also get a textured feel from it...

lilmrs Posted: Mar 20, 2005 07:07 PM

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I just finished the second coat, it looks awesome, if I di say so myself.

Kra5hnburn Posted: Mar 21, 2005 04:09 PM

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Can you post a picture of it when you're done?
TIA!

tray831 Posted: Mar 21, 2005 07:58 PM

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We just did a wall in one of the rooms w/ it but we ended up painting over it b/c it was more of a green--and didnt really match--we needed more of a gray.

But FH LOooooves that stuff---it does look pretty once its applied though. We will have to retry it again in a different room.

Does yours have a nice glassy, glossy finish to it.