Painting + Polishing Technique

Stoopen & Meeûs’  Primium Quality Lime wash is a mat chalk decorative paint that should be applied with a blocked brush.
For the walls, a vertical or criss-cross painting technique may be used.
If these techniques show sufficient brush strokes, the paint may also be lightly polished with a stainless steel knife. This polishing will make the protruding brush strokes gleam, and make the colours look darker, compared to the mat, lighter shade of the underlying layers of paint.
An added advantage is that any damage of the Lime wash is less obvious on a polished Lime wash. It is still possible to finish with a mat, water-based varnish to protect the paint work for an extended period of time.