Lime soaks in and cures unevenly, so its look depends on the surface and the light. These images show it on brick, stone, stucco and plaster walls, in pale and deep mineral colors, as a starting point before you try sample boards on your own surfaces.
Interior walls and rooms
Chalk-white limewash wall with a walnut sideboard
Warm ivory limewash on a living-room wall
Clay-pink limewash in a powder room
Putty-white limewash in a bedroom
Mushroom limewash over walls and ceiling
Oatmeal limewash in a two-story stair hall
Creamy limewash on a kitchen wall and range hood
Warm-white limewash on primed drywall
Detail of limewash brush movement
Brick, stone and fireplaces
Chalky warm-white limewash on a brick fireplace
Weathered white limewash on a brick pier
Soft warm-white limewash on a brick house
Bone-white limewash on a fieldstone entry and chimney
Pale stone-gray limewash on interior brick
Sand limewash on cement stucco
Commercial interiors
Warm taupe limewash in a restaurant
Gray-green limewash on a curved lobby wall
Pale clay limewash in a boutique
Hand-brushed limewash sample boards
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