Venetian Plaster, The Cotswolds
Honey limestone, lime mortar, and one of the most heavily protected landscapes in England.
Polished plaster is marble dust and aged lime, applied by hand in layers and burnished until it shines. Venice has been finishing walls this way for five hundred years, for one reason: it doesn't chip, peel or date. It hardens as it ages.
We do this and nothing else. Every project in the Cotswolds begins with a sample panel on your own wall, and ends with a surface no machine could ever make.
Every area we coverAn hour to an hour and a half from the studio, which makes the Cotswolds one of the few genuinely rural areas we can treat as local.
Each of these has its own page, with the neighbourhoods we cover there and how we get to them.
We also cover the towns and villages around them. If your address is not listed, ask anyway.
Six systems, and the same six wherever we work. The one you end up with is chosen from boards made for your wall, not from a catalogue.
Marble dust and aged lime, burnished to a mirror. The finish most people picture when they say Venetian plaster.
A coarser marble aggregate, left matt or taken to a low sheen. More forgiving across a large wall, and it ages better.
Seamless, waterproof and thin enough to go over existing tile. Bathrooms, wet rooms and floors.
We also work in Tadelakt, limewash, liquid metal and marble effect, across the Cotswolds.
Our own projects, photographed on site. They are not all in the Cotswolds — we will always tell you where a job was.
A wall is one of the biggest surfaces in the room. It should be the best one.Finest Plastering · the Cotswolds
Three sample designs made for your wall, before you commit to anything. You choose the finish in your hand, not from a photograph.
Preparation, materials, labour, protection and the travel across the Cotswolds, itemised and agreed before we begin. The number does not move once it is signed.
Floors, joinery and furniture protected before we start. Dust controlled while we work. A proper clean-down at the end of every day, not just the last one.
No mystery, no drift. Most projects in the Cotswolds run to this shape, and you know the next step before you take the current one.
A call, or a site visit in the Cotswolds. We look at the substrate, the light and how the room is used, then tell you which system actually suits it.
A panel in your exact finish, colour and sheen, made for your wall and left with you to live with. Nothing proceeds until you have signed it off.
Itemised in writing: preparation, materials, labour, protection and travel. The number does not move once agreed.
Floors and joinery protected, dust controlled, coats built and burnished to the sampled standard. Clean site every evening.
Snag walk, aftercare guidance, and a surface that keeps improving with age. We stay reachable afterwards.
A photograph and a rough size is enough to begin. You will have next steps within one working day, and a sample made for your wall before anything is agreed.
“There is no fast version of this. That is exactly why it looks the way it does.”Finest Plastering
Send us a photograph of the wall and a rough size. We will tell you what it needs and roughly what it costs.
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