Use these photos to get your eye in. Notice how the same mineral finish goes chalky on a garden pier and moody in a dining room. Note the ones you keep coming back to. Then make a board on your own kind of surface, because only that tells you the truth.
Interior walls and rooms
Chalk-white limewash wall with a walnut sideboard
Warm ivory limewash wall in a living room
Clay-pink limewash in a powder room
Putty-white limewash in a bedroom
Deep mushroom limewash on walls and ceiling
Oatmeal limewash in a double-height stair hall
Creamy limewash on a range hood and kitchen wall
Warm-white limewash over primed drywall
Close detail of limewash brush movement
Brick, stone and fireplaces
Brick fireplace in chalky warm-white limewash
Weathered white limewash on a brick garden pier
Brick house limewashed in soft warm white
Fieldstone entry and chimney in bone-white limewash
Interior brick wall in pale stone-gray limewash
Sand-colored limewash on cement stucco
Commercial interiors
Warm taupe limewash in a restaurant dining room
Gray-green limewash on a curved lobby wall
Pale clay limewash in a boutique interior
Hand-brushed limewash sample boards
Discuss your limewash project
Found a favorite? Jot down its caption so we know which one you mean. Then say what your own surface is, a hallway, a chimney, a shop wall, and where the property sits. That is all it takes to start.