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Color Atelier is a U.S. manufacturer of mineral-based paints and plasters, offering timeless architectural finishes inspired by traditional European craftsmanship. Made with sustainable, ​finest natural ingredients, our products feature curated color palettes—from warm whites and soft greys to vibrant blues and blush pinks.
Our finishes add organic elegance and quiet depth to interior and exterior spaces, evolving beautifully over time. Ideal for kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms, and bedrooms, they’re breathable, durable, and resistant to mold and mildew. Use on fireplaces, accent walls, and entryways to blend modern aesthetics with classic elegance.
Natural limewash offers elegant textural finishes. Easy. Affordable. Interior and Exterior. Healthy finish without any harmful fumes.
To achieve an infinite range of textures from rustic to smooth to glossy. Our mineral plasters' natural composition restores health to interiors and exteriors.
Designed for use in wet areas like showers. It can also be used for decorative dry area applications, and outdoors. Seamless, durable, elegant silky finish.
Discover and test our curated palette of 66 unique colors through our hand-painted fan deck, color cards, or 4oz. sample size.
Project Gallery to find inspiration from our collection of limewash paints and plasters. Discover wonderful projects, friendly DIY's along with expert PRO tips through our Blog. Find answers to all your queries in our Frequently Asked Questions.
Schedule your in person appointment at our San Francisco, CA and Brooklyn, NY showrooms. Pair our products together to flow seamlessly from inside to out, showers to floors to countertops.
Lime Paint has been around for thousands of years. It is a truly wonderful traditional material that ages beautifully. Color Atelier's Limewash Paint is crafted using traditional European techniques, formulated with the finest, sustainable ingredients, composed of hydrated aged lime and mineral pigments, all made in small batches at our facility in California, ensuring exceptional quality and timeless beauty. Color Atelier's modern Limewash creates surfaces with an organic elegance for a relaxed, natural look and feel.
Limewash is a thinner material applied with a brush, allowing it to soak into porous surfaces. Plaster, by contrast, has a thicker, paste-like consistency and is applied with a trowel to create a solid layer that can be smooth or textured. Our limewash paint provides a matte coating with soft tonal variations, while our plasters can be used as either a base coat or a final finish—ranging from coarse to smooth to glossy, depending on the type of plaster and the application technique. Both lime-based plasters and limewash are breathable, allowing moisture to pass through the surface. While both finishes offer good durability, plasters are more resilient, and can even be used in high-moisture areas such as showers, and also floors.
Color Atelier Limewash Paint can be applied directly over porous, absorbent materials such as bricks, cement, stucco or plaster. Surfaces that are bare or have been previously painted, like drywall, should be primed with our Mineral Primer. Prior to plastering, prepare the substrates with the recommended primer. Apply Lime Plaster, smooth, on level 4+ finished drywall primed with Color Atelier Mineral Primer (for a smooth outcome) or Color Atelier Bonding Primer (for a slightly textured outcome). Apply Limestone Plaster, Tadelakt and Slurry on level 3+ finished drywall primed with Color Atelier Bonding Primer.
Sealer is recommended for use in high traffic areas such as hallways and bathrooms on limewash and plaster surfaces. Color Atelier Sealers are applied as a protective clear topcoat allowing surfaces to resist marking and staining, and making these finishes wipeable.
