Mountain Homes

We were hired by Denton House Interiors to do a parchment glaze on the walls and ceilings of this Park City mountain home, built by Thomas Mcphee Construction.

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The beauty of this finish is its subtlety. I don't care for glazed walls that appear dirty or heavily "fauxed". I don't like to see rag or brush marks that betray the tools used by the painter. Instead I have spent many years perfecting a glazing technique that leaves the walls awash with even, delicately mottled color, that feels integrated into the environment.

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The finish makes the walls glow with unexpected warmth when the light hits them.

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The walls look more tactile than standard painted walls, and the finish relates visually to the local mountain stone and weathered wood.

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We also glazed this tree wallpaper, at the designer's request, because it felt too stark.

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Earthy pink walls in the girl's bunk room. Custom beds by Old World Antique Reproductions.

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Detail of the hand-painted wildflower sconce shades. Interior Design: Denton House Interiors

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Mountain Homes Continued

These textured walls were given a layered wall finish using lime-wash and acrylic glazes.

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I do a lot of work in mountain homes in Deer Valley and Park City. The foor plans are always very open with a lot of windows and richly finished cabinetry, wood beams, and wood floors.

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I find that standard wall paint just doesn't cut it in this environment. The walls are better off with a decorative finish to impart texture and depth.

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Parchment glaze in the Great Room. Interior Design: Denton House Interiors

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Iridescent powder room walls

We took inspiration from this iridescent glass sink to create the wall finish.

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The finish was created by layering silver and red metallic glazes over a terracotta brown base coat using brush and sponging techniques. The combination of transparent layers created subtle grey-green and taupe undertones.

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Light from the pendants dances over the metallic surface. Interior Design: Marilyn Lewis Design Group

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Rustic color-washed accent wall

This color-washed finish is evocative of the aged lime-washed exteriors of the Southwest and Mexico. As an accent wall, the color and texture provide a rich setting for the rustic furniture and primitive objects. This color-wash finish consists of two transparent layers of brushed and ragged acrylic glaze.

Entry with red glazed walls

I love white walls under the right circumstances. I like to say: white by design not by default. However the white walls in this Deer Valley entry felt sterile and almost institutional. So we transformed the space by texturing and glazing the walls a rich red. This finish-with its linen-velvet quality-added warmth and vibrancy to the entry, and served to accentuate the art and furnishings.

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For this finish we textured the walls with a tinted joint compound mixture that we pounced with masonry brushes-while wet-and then smoothed with a trowel to create a subtle texture. The texture was then based-coated with latex paint in a raspberry red and glazed with a burgundy color. Originally we were hired to do just the alcoves (not pictured) but the client and designer liked the effect so much that they had us carry the finish throughout the hall. Interior Design: Linda Johnson

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Stenciled Entry Wall

For this entry accent wall I used an all-over stencil pattern. The wall was glazed and mottled to create depth and then the pattern was stenciled in different tones to create a softly faded feel, with a little metallic to catch the light as the front door opens.

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Strie Finish in Spa Bath

Strie is a French adjective meaning striated or scratched. It describes the technique of pulling a tool through a wet glaze leaving a linear pattern.

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In this spa bath at the Casa Nova there are three layers of striated glazes, the first layer a soft metallic which just peaks through the following glazes in shades of honey-due green. In the mirror you can see 3form panels with birch branches. Interior Design: Denton House Interiors

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Entry with Glazed Paper

I collaborated with designer Bert Vieta on this entry many years ago. He always had a fresh approach and was very supportive of my work. To create this effect I primed and base-coated lengths of medium weight craft paper and then color-washed it with taupe glazes. The glazed paper was cut into squares and hung in a grid pattern with wall paper adhesive, creating a lovely tactile effect.

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A view of the wet bar. Interior Designer: Bert Vieta

The Casa Nova

The master bedroom suite where we stenciled custom designs in a staggered pattern on the bed wall.

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Softly aged walls with a warm metallic trowelled base in the Master Bedroom.

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Dining Room ceiling with layers of metallic plaster.

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Parchment glazed walls in the Great Room. This technique adds so much warmth to the walls and to the whole atmosphere. Interior Design: Denton House Interiors

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Carved footstools made by Antique Old World Reproductions from the Great Room above. Detail of my hand-painting in gold on the leather seat.

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Oval Ceiling Entry

Parchment glazed walls. Metallic plaster on oval ceiling.

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Entry with stain-glass window. Textured walls softly glazed in a parchment tone. Ceiling oval rendered in trowelled layers of custom tinted shimmer stone, a Modern Masters product, with a metallic over-glaze in champagne, creating the look and feel of shell. Interior Designer: Denton House Interiors.

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