What is a Limewash Faux Finish?
For those of you who don’t know what a limewash is, it’s a technique using colorwashing & glazing to achieve the look of old white washed walls. It gives a white chalky look to the walls. Think about a whitewashed fence how you can see the wood through the paint. It is achieved by painting or colorwashing over a darker color with a thin / watery white paint / glaze mixture. Well, with limewashing you use a paint & glaze mixture that is a little bit thicker (more opaque). You want the walls to look chalky as if they were old plaster. A thinner coat of paint applied would be called white washing or pickling.
