Venetian Plaster in Rosedale
Rosedale homes are old enough to have opinions. Their original walls were lime plaster, and the kindest thing you can put back on them is more lime. Elite Plaster supplies genuine Italian lime systems, Venetian plaster, limewash and marmorino, that breathe with a century home instead of sealing moisture into it the way modern acrylics do.
Why lime for heritage walls
Lime finishes are vapour-permeable. On old masonry and original plaster, that means moisture moves through and out rather than blistering the surface. They also flatter imperfect walls: limewash in particular makes hundred-year-old undulations read as character, not defects. This is the honest reason designers keep specifying it in Rosedale, Moore Park and Summerhill.
Restoration-friendly, not restoration-only
Plenty of Rosedale projects are modern renovations behind heritage facades. The same systems handle both: polished Venetian for a new principal bath, limewash across a renovated third floor, microcement in a basement gym. Every product page carries the technical sheet and the matched primer for its substrate.
Common questions
Can this go over existing painted plaster? Usually yes, with the correct grip primer, which is exactly what the product pages pair automatically. When in doubt, call with photos and we will spec it.
Who applies it? Your contractor, working from the official Spiver documentation we host, or ask us: our sister company Elite Walls installs across central Toronto.
Cost? Materials typically $1 to $2 per square foot for limewash systems, $3 to $5 for Venetian. The calculator gives exact numbers.