We were thrilled that our colleague, Jean Pascal Bach of Whistler Contracting, wanted to write a piece about 5StarFinishes and products. Here is the story: In 2020, I embarked on a journey into the world of micro cement, a niche yet burgeoning industry. My introduction to this fascinating field came through a partnership with Trevor […]
The design for this bathroom was to look very much like concrete but also match the color of their tiles in the shower. We chose to use a little more of a brown gray for this project to match, and decided on a heavy texture and a matte sealer. The entire enclosure was sealed using
The owners of this beautiful whistler home were having problems for years trying to find someone to fix their home’s plaster repairs, which had an old style of venetian plaster from over 20 yrs ago. This finish was quite matte, a little rough, and changed shades slightly from room to room. There were bathroom, bedrooms,
This is the Last post for our new build home we have been working on. We plastered the upstairs bathroom black and gold, the downstairs bathroom in a concrete look, and also all the walls of the downstairs entertainment room including the staircase. This product is a natural hydraulic lime with a coarse marble grain,
This bathroom has an amazing black epoxy floor with embedded gold and copper pieces of metal, and a beautiful black and gold marble that will be used for the countertop. We developed a range of custom samples with all different colors of gold, and black textures. The approved sample was a black Marmorino with a
We have been commissioned to plaster the entire downstairs of this home, including a bathroom, doors, walls and staircase. The walls have been custom designed to look like concrete, a common industrial looks that is very trendy in Vancouver at the moment. The product is hydraulic lime, with a heavy marble sand and we are
Dwell Living in Yaletown asked us to refinish two bathrooms that had mosaic tiles on the walls and large format tiles on the floor. The floors were also set over top of radiant floor heating which they thought may be an issue; however, heat transfer and adhesion are not a problem for Microcement coatings. Microcement
Our client wanted to update this bathroom, located in downtown Vancouver, at the Hotel le Soleil. His vision was for the shower to appear like a single piece of marble, and for the floor to be contemporary and contrasting, The shower stall and tiles were in good shape, so there was no need to rip
