Paint question / limewash effect

[Saunders]

If anyone knows about or is interested in paint finishes, I’d really appreciate some advice or suggestions. I recently got a beach hut, after being on a waiting list for years, and am thinking about how to decorate it.

Is there a way to achieve a finish like limewash, on an interior wooden hut. What I like about limewash is that it is very matt and yet bounces light.
I’ve ordered a sample of lime paint from a company but, as it still hasn’t arrived, and because the person I spoke to said the finish would be powdery and come off on hands when touched, I’m thinking I need an alternative solution.
The hut is new softwood with Sterling board ceiling and I gave it a coat of bog standard primer before considering what might stick to it.
I want it to be a light ultramarine blue. I don’t need it to be homogeneous.
I also will need it to be suitable for painting on top of. In the short term with freehand/ stencilled decorations; longer term that it can be painted over with another coating within two years.
Chalk and clay paints don’t really have the depth I want.
Could I add some sort of reflective particles (and if so, what?) and some pigment to cheap masonry paint? Or even cheap emulsion?
Will it actually make a difference what I use given that this is a hut with no windows? I think it will. I don’t want it to look like a bedroom.

 

[moose]

Could I add some sort of reflective particles (and if so, what?) and some pigment to cheap masonry paint? Or even cheap emulsion?

The kids bedroom section in the paint at B&Q (in store rather than online) often has a range of interesting finishes, including glitter and pearlescent.
Sorry, I know nothing about lime wash - but can't you achieve the effect by painting on emulsion and wiping it off, and building it up to the density you want?

Best way to bounce light round a room is mirrors, IME.

 

[danny la rouge]

I know about lime wash effects and a wooden interior is ideal for it. Perfect. As is mattness. Mattivity. Matticity. (There must be a word). But light bouncy? You’re going to have to hope for that to come from the hue you choose.

 

[Duncan2]

The gable of our house has got distinctly scabby after withstanding sodden and unkind Midlands weather for the best part of two centuries. So I looked into the possibility of pepping it up with a coat of whitewash.DLR probably knows the far end of this topic but what I read was to the effect that whitewash or limewash only achieves that pleasing solid- white appearance after the application of many many coats probably applied over the course of a decade or two. -So I was put off and our gable is now very scabby indeed.

 

[Boudicca]

Dulux have a range called Light & Space which is supposed to bounce the light around. It's hogwash, of course, but the colours are nice and I've used a couple fo them.

Dulux Light & Space Lagoon Falls - Matt Emulsion Paint - 2.5L

Find Dulux Light & Space Lagoon Falls - Matt Emulsion Paint - 2.5L at Homebase.

www.homebase.co.uk

 

[Saunders]

Thanks for the replies and suggestions. Yesterday I bought some testers and have, I hope, found a solution.

 

[Boudicca]

That's nice, I like that Saunders

 

[Saunders]

That's nice, I like that Saunders

Thank you. I’m just hoping it’ll still look like that today.

 

[WouldBe]

The gable of our house has got distinctly scabby after withstanding sodden and unkind Midlands weather for the best part of two centuries. So I looked into the possibility of pepping it up with a coat of whitewash.DLR probably knows the far end of this topic but what I read was to the effect that whitewash or limewash only achieves that pleasing solid- white appearance after the application of many many coats probably applied over the course of a decade or two. -So I was put off and our gable is now very scabby indeed.

Could you use white masonry paint? Would only take a couple of coats.

 

[Duncan2]

Could you use white masonry paint? Would only take a couple of coats.

Probably could Wouldbe but the wall had Sandtex on it before and the result was that when the Sandtex started to peel the rain got in behind it and couldn't get out again making the mortar and bricks horribly wet.So I was thinking of something breathable which wasn't stupidly expensive which got me to whitewash.Probably will have to go with masonry paint though as you suggest.

 

[WouldBe]

Probably could Wouldbe but the wall had Sandtex on it before and the result was that when the Sandtex started to peel the rain got in behind it and couldn't get out again making the mortar and bricks horribly wet.So I was thinking of something breathable which wasn't stupidly expensive which got me to whitewash.Probably will have to go with masonry paint though as you suggest.

Masonry paint is supposed to be breathable for that reason.

 

[danny la rouge]

Probably could Wouldbe but the wall had Sandtex on it before and the result was that when the Sandtex started to peel the rain got in behind it and couldn't get out again making the mortar and bricks horribly wet.So I was thinking of something breathable which wasn't stupidly expensive which got me to whitewash.Probably will have to go with masonry paint though as you suggest.

Limewash really is the best thing for masonry. If you've already identified that water is getting trapped, you don't want to trap it more.

 

[danny la rouge]

Masonry paint is supposed to be breathable for that reason.

Hmmm. I'm not convinced any actually is, though.

 

[Saunders]

Goodbye lovely beach hut.
I moved away and my friends have been using it while my lease ran out. My son emptied it for me today, and I’m feeling a bit sad. It was a space that I could put whatever colours and shapes I liked into and, although I only used odd bits and bobs that were to hand so it wasn’t anything special (some people did amazing things), it ended up looking and feeling the way I’d wanted. The colour played with the light and still makes me feel good