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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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.

Cerise faux finish

When I created the sample finish for this dramatic great room, I took inspiration from the irridescent glass mosaic tile-work. (The white outlets "disappeared" after the furnishings were installed, otherwise I would have painted them to match.)

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The views looking West, toward the kitchen and breakfast nook. The walls were especially gorgeous in the afternoon and evening light, as the metallic layers caught the setting sun.

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We started with a burgundy base-coat on contractor textured walls, and then sponged on a custom tinted cherry red metallic. When dry, we waxed the walls with a mixture of liquified Minwax (diluted with mineral spirits) and Kremer pigments Colibri glitter-gold. By waxing I mean that we trowelled-on a thin amount of the gold wax with flexible knives and then buffed the wax with terry-cloth towels to a soft sheen. Interior Design: Marilyn Lewis

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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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