Plaster is read with the eye and the hand, so ours is mixed and troweled on site rather than rolled on as a texture. Lath, scratch coat and brown coat go down before any finish does — skip that and the prettiest topcoat telegraphs every flaw beneath it inside a season. Work runs from oceanfront builds in Wailea to interior remodels in Makawao and Paia.
Three coats over lath — scratch, brown, finish — each left to cure before the next goes on. Control joints are placed where the building will actually move, which is what keeps hairline cracking out of a wall two years later. New builds, additions and full re-skims.
Thin lime coats burnished back with steel until the surface carries depth and a low sheen, closer to stone than to paint. It rewards a dead-flat substrate, so feature walls and stairwells are where it earns its keep.
A single hand-troweled coat, left soft and faintly irregular. It suits Mediterranean and coastal-contemporary houses, where a room reads as one continuous surface rather than four painted planes.
Moroccan lime plaster, compressed with a stone and sealed with olive-oil soap until it turns water-tight. Seamless by nature, which is why it belongs in wet rooms: shower surrounds, tub decks, vanity walls. No grout lines to fail.
Lime wash for a soft, mottled body of color; marmorino when you want something tighter and more polished. Both go where flat paint gives up — ceilings, chimney breasts, shaded facades.