Module 04 · Craft

The part you don’t usually see

Renders are easy. This is the finish work, the materials and the sites — photographed as they were, not as they photograph best.

Finishes

Sculpted relief, lime plaster and microcement — wall surfaces built up by hand rather than papered on.

Sculpted relief wall, hand-carved and lit from above
Wave-form relief wall behind a low sofa
Rippled relief panel running the width of a living room
Warm lime-plaster walls in a bedroom, lit from a cove
Microcement wall with a shallow arched niche
Lime-plaster lounge wall in a soft clay tone
Pale plaster wall with recessed arches and a curved bench

Materials

Laminates, marbles and veneers we specify from, each one labelled so you can point at the finish you want rather than describe it.

Board of labelled laminate and marble samples in golds, greens and greys

Drawing to room

The same bedroom twice — the working sheet it was set out on, and the render it became.

Working layout sheet for a bedroom, shown from four angles
Untextured 3D model of the same bedroom before rendering
The finished bedroom render with cove lighting and a fluted headboard
A second bedroom shown from four rendered angles

Marble texture paint

Stone that is not stone — veining built up by hand, in paint, on a flat wall.

Dining room in deep green marble-effect walls with a brass chandelier
Living room in burgundy marble-effect walls with a deep green velvet sofa
White marble-effect wall with book-matched chevron veining
A roller applying marble texture paint by hand, beside the finished wall
Applied by hand — paint, not stone