This fireplace was to be a feature of the living room, but the client did not want the color or finish to be too overbearing. We chose a light blue gray, and an old world style plaster with a medium polish. This plaster is lime, marble powder and fine marble grains that create a much […]
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This new Canibus shop, Shop BURB, in Port Coquitlam, is absolutely stunning, and has some very elegant and old world finishes. Behind the bud bar and their check out stands a 500 sq ft feature wall with custom quotes of the day, and a beautiful wood panel ceiling. The designer asked us to apply a
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This fireplace is a combination of 50% hydraulic lime and coarse marble, and 50% white cement and coarse marble, along with a tint additive to create the concrete color. This particular product creates little air holes in the finish, has a stamped overlay after an initial full wall application, and has a very light compression
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This is an old world fireplace install in a brand new home in Coquitlam. An Old world finish usually means it is having small holes or rips in the finish exposing the layers beneath, or it can be other finishes that all have some sense of inconsistency among them. Again we were given a paint
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There is the option of using Venetian Plaster on your exterior projects instead of stone or stucco, as it is also durable, waterproof and freeze/thaw resistant. The plaster we used on this project is an exterior hydraulic lime and marble plaster, with a heavy grain marble profile giving us a strong finish and a more
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Muji has Re-opened their store in Metrotown mall after having expanded into a storefront next door. The entire store was overhauled, with new dressing rooms, a brand new checkout area and custom sewing area for embroidery and clothing alterations. We were contacted by Etro Construction to continue our finish from last year across 1000sq ft
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For this project we were asked to design some feature walls for a home in North Van that was undergoing a total renovation. The client wanted the walls to be rough to the touch, have a dragged appearance, shadings like board form concrete and colors of gray, mid gray and white. It took some time
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A Renovation company is opening a shopfront beside Playland and wanted to build some bench seating in wood and make it look like concrete matching two feature walls we would also be designing. The finish was determined to be best made with a hydraulic lime with a heavy marble grain, and then to add lines
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This project was done in conjunction with a renovation company that wanted to change the hearth and brick fireplace for their clients. The clients wanted a beautiful cream color in a Travertine finish along with a charcoal matte microcement hearth. The hearth was made of slate, and the fireplace was old brick. We used Nocacolor’s
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We had a request recently to modify a previous sample a designer had to produce a champagne wash rather than just a white pearl effect. This was a new build fireplace and is a mixture of drywall and cement board. The entire fireplace is covered over in a modified cement and lime to create a
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