The Art of Application

Some walls just are. And some tell a story. Wojtek from Decoraton Colour has been working with lime for years – a material that people used long before anyone invented paint in a can. Muro Sano contains over 30% pure lime. The limewash effect, which more and more people are asking about, is not a trend – it's a return to something authentic.

The paint contains no biocides. None. The binder is inorganic – after drying and carbonisation, the paint emits nothing. This is a technology from several thousand years ago, which Decoraton Colour brought back to life and adapted to modern requirements. A wall covered with Muro Sano is fully diffusive – it breathes with the room. It does not create a tight coating, yet it can be washed after proper protection.

Muro Sano is produced in white and tinted on site. The secret to the limewash effect lies in what happens before application — two paint trays, two shades of the same color. One pure, the other diluted with white paint. Applied alternately with a wide brush, they blend into each other, creating a depth that cannot be achieved with a single coat.

A workbench, two paint trays, a damp wall. Wojtek applies the paint crosswise – first a lighter shade, then a darker one. There is no room for chance here, but there is room for the hand. It is this motion, repeated across the wall, that makes the two shades blend into a single, vibrant effect.

Light doesn't lie. It falls on the wall differently in the morning and differently in the evening — and each time it reveals something new. The texture of Muro Sano is not uniform. It's alive. Every stroke of the trowel leaves a trace that, in the right light, transforms an ordinary wall into something that cannot be designed on a computer screen.