Popular Interior Design Finishes

Wall glazing is a very common, yet effective way to create ambience in your home. All wall glazing involves color added to clear glaze and applied in layers using a variety of techniques such as frottage, colorwashing, ragging, sponging, stippling, etc.

Colorwashing
Colorwashing technique uses color glazes applied with tools (rags, sponges, brushes, woolies, etc) in a blending motion to create a range of shades that blend subtly or distinctly, depending on the desired effect such as a Fresco finish.

Sponging On/Off
Sponging On/Off uses dampened natural sea-sponges (never synthetic) to either apply or remove glaze on a basecoat to create mottled effects on walls and add dimension. Multiple colors applied in layers can achieve stunning results.

Ragging On/Off (Parchment)
Ragging On/Off (Parchment) techniques use any lint-fee fabric such as linen, lace, burlap, and cotton. They are then either crumbled to blot a surface, or cylinder shaped of varying tightness to roll a surface to create dramatic effects such as crushed velvet, parchment, chamois leather, watered silk, and many more.

Stippling
Stippling techniques achieve more subtle results than rag rolling or sponging, and is often the tool of choice to achieve the wonderfully textured appearance of leather...

Frottage
Frottage is a French word meaning 'to rub', and that is exactly how this finish is achieved - by gently smoothing sheets of paper against glaze, and swiftly pulling it away to reveal the basecoat. This modern technique is popular among restaurateurs.