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Home  Collectibles Garden and Outdoors Tuscan Interior Paint: Creating a Tuscany Flavor in Your Home
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Tuscan Interior Paint: Creating a Tuscany Flavor in Your Home |
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Written by DebraThatPainterLadyConrad
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Friday, 30 January 2009 |
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Tuscan finishes recall the warmth of the Mediterranean region and the weathered charm of traditional, rural Italian dwellings. The look relies on a comfortably aged and textured appearance and a color palette of warm, earthy hues. It can be achieved by using Venetian plastering to introduce actual texture to walls, or by simulating textural effects with faux painting techniques. Faux painting is an economical way to reproduce the textured effect that is much favored by decorators.
by DebraThatPainterLadyConrad
Tuscan finishes recall the warmth of the Mediterranean region and the weathered charm of traditional, rural Italian dwellings. The look relies on a comfortably aged and textured appearance and a color palette of warm, earthy hues. It can be achieved by using Venetian plastering to introduce actual texture to walls, or by simulating textural effects with faux painting techniques. Faux painting is an economical way to reproduce the textured effect that is much favored by decorators.
The Tuscan Look
Tuscan finishes evoke the sunny charm of Italian country villages, simple peasant lifestyles and cozy homes that have been lived in for generations. Central to the look are subtle colors softened with age. The Tuscan homes on which the finish is modeled have an organic feel. Without industrially produced paints and plasters, builders used local materials, mixing their materials in the same way as their fathers and forefathers.
Tuscan finishes are especially popular in kitchens and informal rooms and living spaces, including dining rooms and patios. Interior details include mosaics, tiling and decorative borders, often stenciled. The colors and designs have an equally organic and ethnic feel.
Tuscan Colors
Mined for millennia, pigments known collectively as 'ochres' are the traditional basis of paints worldwide. Red ochre is simply iron ore, while other metal oxides are used for different color paints. These natural pigments, mixed with lime and other substances, lend paints an organic quality that is lacking in the commercial paints that we are accustomed to today.
Ochreous earth pigments are typically various shades of red, but they range from rust brown to burnt orange, and weathered yellow to purplish-maroon. Pinkish and peach-colored pigments occur naturally and other metal oxides provide black pigments. They can either be mixed to make paints or added to plaster to add subtle color.
Though these colors are the core of the Tuscan palette, other colors are also incorporated into the range. Muted blues and greens (shades of olive and sage) are also effective in recreating Tuscan finishes. The Tuscan look goes well with terracotta tiled floors.
Choosing Your Tuscan Palette
Natural colors share comparable color values and are easy to mix and match. Color washing is the faux painting method usually used to create Tuscan texture. It can be done with two colors, but more can be used to vary the effect. You may want to also want to match your colors according to the room you intend to decorate. A sunny room may demand less intense colors, and cold room warmer, deeper hues.
Depending on how you apply the paint and the nature and range of the colors used, you can achieve a cloudy, airy finish or a denser, moodier feel. To complete the Tuscan paint finish, consider stenciled borders in similar muted tones. Foliage such as acanthus leaves or vines and grapes are motifs in keeping with the Tuscan theme. Faux mosaics and tiles in suitable colors provide another finishing touch.
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