Decorative plaster in the kitchen: ideas and tips to choose a color

A kitchen is considered to be the center of the house. This is the place, where the whole family gathers, cooks and communicates. That's why the kitchen must be maximally comfortable, beginning with the color combination and finishing the furniture. This all affects the whole atmosphere and mood. Starting renovation of the kitchen you shall thoroughly decide all details in complex, how exactly it shall look.

Concerning the choice of the materials for the walls' finishing, you should take into account the hardness of the coating, and its resistance to mechanical load, moisture and washing, as the kitchen is the place, where people constantly cook and clean up.

The most win-win material among other finishing materials for this purpose is decorative plaster.

Art Beton

Decorative coating with the effect of natural stone and concrete

Duna

Decorative coating with quartz sand and pearl

Ottocento

Decorative coating with a velour effect

Stucco veneziano

Decorative coating with the effect of marble

Advantages of decorative plaster

Decorative plaster has a list of substantive advantages:

1. It can be applied on concrete, brick, gypsum, plaster, concrete and lime-concrete plaster.
Seamless application technique. The absence of seams and joints allows escaping additional contaminations and further cleaning and as a bonus - creating a continuous pattern.
The plaster allows creating various decorative effects: concrete, marble, travertine, atlas, silk, velour, sandy dunes, etc.
Durability. Decorative plaster keeps an attractive look for a long time.
It resists moisture.
It is vapor permeable.
Decorative plaster can be renovated and restored.
Esthetics and individuality. Decorative plaster is a plastic material, which allows implementing all kinds of artistic desires.

Consuming all the advantages, wallpapers are definitely worse than decorative coatings. The wallpapers can peel off under the moisture effect and high temperatures make them less attractive, the wallpapers are getting yellow and the colors fade.

The decorative coatings also win in comparison with tiles and paints. Seams of the tile surface make the pattern fragment-like and paints limit variations for decor as they create a matt or semi-matt effect.

What type of plaster is suitable for the kitchen?

Various effects, possible with decorative plasters Maxima-decor, can make you doubt what is exactly suitable for the kitchen. Let's have a look at each option.

Textured plaster

There are three decorative products in Maxima-decor, which allow creating texture and hiding insignificant defects on the surface.

Decorative coating with the effect of a natural stone and concrete Art Beton.
Textured decorative plaster Marmorino.
Facade plaster with a natural stone effect Travertino.

These plasters can imitate natural stones, concrete, wooden surfaces and leather. They obtain an advanced resistance to physical load and if you cover them with wax Cera as a finishing coat, they gain additional protection and taking care after the surface becomes easier.

You can wash textured plasters using domestic detergents and not be afraid they will lose an attractive look.