A curved plaster ceiling and walls in Meoded Marmorino Tintoretto, warm in lamplight

Specialty finishes

Clay, lime and stone, applied by hand.

Meoded's plasters are lime, marble dust, clay and cement, troweled on in coats. You are choosing depth as much as color, and it changes as the light moves. Nothing on this page is a paint chip.

Marmorino Tintoretto · photo courtesy of Meoded

The line

We stock the full Meoded line, tools included. Every product has its own page with Meoded's colors, coverage and steps.

The whole Meoded line, on our shelf.

Photographs courtesy of Meoded Paint & Plaster.

Why

Depth you cannot print.

Paint sits on the surface as a film of even thickness. Lime plaster is built up in troweled coats, so the wall has real relief: high spots that catch the light, low spots that hold shadow.

Phoenix light brings it out. Three hundred days of hard, directional light is what these finishes were made for. It is also the light in which flat paint looks its flattest.

It is applied by hand, and no two walls are identical. Screens vary, and the finish shifts with the light in the room. See a troweled board at the store before you decide.

Walls

Screens vary and paint shifts with the light in the room. Pick up a sample before you commit to a wall.

The paint beside a plastered wall.

A plastered wall is usually one wall. The rest of the room takes a matte paint half a step off the plaster.

OC-17White Dove: ceilings and trim in most plastered rooms.
HC-81Manchester Tan: the adjacent walls beside a warm polished plaster; close, not matched.
244Strathmore Manor: when the plaster is the light element and the room needs a floor of color.
HC-170Stonington Gray: beside Concretta or Golmex, where anything warm fights the concrete read.
HC-166Kendall Charcoal: a ceiling above a metallic wall, so the sheen has something to throw against.

Compare

The finishes side by side. Each row opens that product's page.

Counter

Can I apply it myself?

It is available to you either way. The first coat is forgiving; the finish coats are not. For a feature wall in an important room, we recommend an experienced applicator.

How is it priced?

As a surface, by the square foot. Material runs several times the cost of premium paint, and skilled labor is the larger share.

Will it crack?

Not if the wall is sound and the coats go on thin. Meoded builds heavy textures in several thin coats, because a thick coat is what cracks. Cracks in the wall beneath will still come through, so preparation comes first.

Can it go in a shower?

Meoded Concretta can. It is a microcement, troweled seamless and sealed with three or four coats of PlasterGuard, and it goes over existing tile without demolition. On new walls the shower is waterproofed first; Concretta is the finish layer. True tadelakt is a Moroccan lime technique rather than a product we stock, and the tadelakt page explains the difference. The rest of the range stays out of direct water.

Can you match a color I have?

We tint Lime Wash, Pearlas Velvet, Crystal Brush and every Meoded plaster except Golmex in store; Golmex comes in natural cement gray and Sapphire Metallic in factory colors. Bring a chip or a piece of the material. A plaster will never sit exactly on a paint chip, because it is not a flat surface. The sample board shows what it will do.

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Who applies it matters most.

We keep a list of applicators in the Phoenix metro who work in Meoded daily, and we know which ones do which finishes. Tell us the room, and we will recommend two or three.