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Liquid Metal · Metallic Plaster

Metallic walls, in liquid metal and pearl

Liquid metal on a wall is a polished lime plaster or pearl glaze carrying mica and metal toned pigment, so the surface reads as brushed bronze, pewter or gold. It is trowelled on, not rolled, and we lay it ourselves across the UK.

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Three ways into liquid metal

Buy the materials and tools, have our own team install them, or start with a sample board. Every liquid metal finish is supplied and installed by Zavoré.

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The liquid metal the trade buys most

The materials behind a liquid metal finish, each one tested by our own applicators before it ships.

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Where The House Has Worked

Liquid Metal delivered, UK and worldwide

Each dot is a project the house has installed. Liquid Metal ships tracked across the UK and worldwide. Turn the globe and click a dot to see where it is.

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Where It Belongs

Where liquid metal belongs

A finish is chosen the way a fine fabric is chosen, by how it looks and how it feels under the hand. These are the rooms and surfaces liquid metal suits best.

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Colour

Liquid metal colours, as listed on each product

Liquid metal comes in the colours listed on each product, so you choose from what is real.

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Every product shows the colours it comes in, before you order.

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Look at it in the actual room, morning and evening, before you commit a wall.

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We keep a record of your batch, so a second order gets as close as the material allows.

Order a sample boardPlaster finishes dry lighter than the colour you picked, often by around 20%, as the lime cures. A screen will never match a wall exactly.
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Samples, before you commit

Order a liquid metal sample board and see it in your own room, in daylight and in lamplight, before you commit a whole wall.

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Installation

Liquid Metal, installed by our own team

If you have laid polished plaster before, a metallic is the same trowel work with less forgiveness: the flakes record every stroke you make. If you have not, this is the wrong finish to learn on. Start on a matt plaster, and learn it on a board rather than on your living room. Otherwise our own applicators lay it across the UK. Tell us about the wall and we will say honestly which way round it should go.

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The Survey

Tell us about the room and our own team comes to see the wall before anything is specified.

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The Specification

We specify the liquid metal, the preparation and the colour for the surface you actually have, so the finish suits the wall it goes on.

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The Installation

The same team lays it, residential and commercial, anywhere in the UK.

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Every liquid metal material on this page ships tracked across the UK and worldwide, and a working installer picks up the phone, Monday to Saturday.

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5Years of
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The Material

What liquid metal
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Two different things get sold as liquid metal.

One is cold cast metal: real bronze or brass powder in a resin binder, sprayed on and then patinated. That is a foundry adjacent trade and we do not supply it. The other, the one on most walls you have admired, and the one we sell, is Italian lime plaster or a pearl glaze loaded with mica and mineral pigment. Laid thin over a prepared base and burnished, the flakes lie flat and throw light back in the direction of the strokes. It is a mineral finish, tinted to your colour, and it behaves like our other plasters: breathable over a lime background, touch dry in hours and hard over weeks.

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Liquid Metal · 01

Where the shimmer comes from

The metal in a metallic plaster is mica and pearl pigment: flat mineral flakes, ground fine and carried in lime. When the trowel passes, those flakes lie down in the direction of the stroke. Light hits them all at the same angle and comes back together, which is why the wall looks bright from one side of the room and deep from the other. Change the stroke direction and you change where the light gathers. It is also why the colour underneath matters. A gold over a warm ground reads like old brass, the same gold over grey goes colder and more pewter. None of this sits on top as a varnish. It is part of the coat.

Liquid Metal · 02

Metallic body or metallic top

There are two ways to get metal onto a wall and they do not look the same. The first is a plaster that is already metallic: Veneziano Metallico is our polished Venetian with the shimmer through the body, Stucco Suede Metallico the softer, cloudier version of the same idea. You lay it as the finish and the depth goes all the way down. The second is a plain base, tinted the colour you want, with the metal brought over the top as a pearl or a metallic wax and burnished in. That route gives you more control: you decide how much shows, and you can leave the ground colour reading through where the pass is thin.

Liquid Metal · 03

Light, and how much to use

Metallics want light that moves. A wall near a window, or one washed by an uplighter, will do something different all day; a wall in flat, even light just looks like a shiny colour. Put it where people come at it side on, a chimney breast, an alcove, the face of a bar or a reception desk, the wall behind a bed. One surface is almost always enough. A whole room in metallic plaster stops being a finish and starts being a fairground, and the second wall cancels the first, because nothing quiet is left for it to play against. Keep everything else matt and let the metal be the one thing working.

Liquid Metal · 04

Laying it: flat first, then direction

Metallic finishes are unforgiving about the wall behind them. Every hollow in the background reads as a dark patch and every proud edge as a bright one, so the background is made flat and primed before anything metallic goes near it. After that it is two thin coats over a primed wall, worked tight with the trowel and then burnished. The whole wall goes on in one go, by one pair of hands. Stop halfway and come back tomorrow and the join will be there forever, because the new strokes will not lie in the same direction as yesterday’s. Corners and edges get cut in as part of that same pass, never patched in afterwards.

Liquid Metal · 05

Waxes, sealing and living with it

A metallic wall is finished with wax or sealer, and the choice changes the look. Wax burnished in lifts the sheen and deepens the colour, and a metallic wax can lay a second tone over the first. Sealer is the quieter, harder wearing answer where hands and steam reach. Day to day it wants a soft dry cloth, nothing abrasive and nothing with bleach in it. Be realistic about repairs: a scuff can often be waxed back, but a real gouge means relaying the wall corner to corner, because a patch will never pick up the stroke direction of what is around it. Keep a labelled sample board with the job for exactly that reason.

Where It Is The Wrong Answer

Where liquid metal is the wrong answer

Skip metallics on long hallway walls and stairwells, where shoulders, bags and the hoover land and the sheen shows every mark. Skip them behind a hob, where heat and grease sit on the surface. Skip them in flat, even light, which kills the effect outright. And skip them anywhere you will later want an invisible repair: metallic plaster cannot be patched without the patch showing.

Order a sample board in the colour you are considering and look at it in the actual room, morning and evening, before you commit a wall. If you would rather we laid it, ring 07592 929191 and tell us what you are working with.
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The House Timeline

Five years, one standard

2021

The First Walls

The work starts in Birmingham under another name. Inside the first year it reaches London, Manchester, Kent and Surrey.

2022

The Team Grows

Three new members join the studio, giving us the hands to take on larger projects without dropping the standard of the finish.

2023

The Academy & The Supply Line

The Academy opens its doors, and a supply agreement is signed with our materials producer. Quality secured at the source.

2024

The Commercial Turn

The workshop makes its name in commercial decorative finishes across the UK, quietly supplying fellow applicators and proving every material on its own projects before it went on sale.

2025

The Range Goes Public

Tested on the job, refined and trusted by the trade first, our own materials go on open sale to the public.

2026

The Name Goes Up

Five years of work, one supply line and one school, finally under a single name. Zavoré: the full range, the Academy and the Colour Library in one place, and the next wall always ahead.

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Beyond Liquid Metal

We also craft every other finish

Venetian plaster leads the house, and our team installs every finish below.

Venetian PlasterThe house finish Polished PlasterStucco veneziano MarmorinoLime and marble grain TravertinoTravertine effect LimewashBreathable lime TadelaktMoroccan lime MicrocementSeamless surfaces Concrete EffectBeton stucco Clay PlasterRoman clay in lime Artificial RockStone effect plaster Sculptural PlasterReady made and bespoke Bas ReliefSculpted by hand MosaicsDesigned and installed MuralsPainted by hand GildingGold and silver leaf Lacquered WallsHigh gloss lacquer Cornice & CovingFitted, restored and matched Feature WallsEvery finish, one team The HouseEvery finish, one home
For The Trade

Trade accounts for plasterers and decorators

Approved decorators, plasterers, contractors and designers buy with a Zavoré trade account. Ten percent off every material, taken off automatically the moment you are signed in to your trade account, consistent colour on every Venetian plaster reorder, colour matching to any reference, and the members only Rewards Room, where every pound counts towards titles and rewards. Academy students walk in the day they finish their course.

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Your questions, answered honestly

No. Metallic paint is pigment in a film, rolled on, and the shimmer sits in that thin skin. Metallic plaster is mineral, trowelled in coats, and the mica lies through the material itself, so it moves with the light and has depth rather than glitter. It costs more and it takes a trained hand, and it does not look like paint from a metre away.
Cold cast metal, actual bronze or brass powder in a resin binder, sprayed and then patinated, is a separate trade and we do not supply it. What we sell reads as brushed metal in movement and light rather than as cast metal under the hand. If a client has specified genuine cast metal, tell us early and we will say so.
On walls away from direct spray, yes, sealed properly. A metallic behind a basin or a freestanding bath is a common ask. Inside a shower enclosure we would steer you to tadelakt instead, which is the finish built for standing water. Send us a photograph of the room and we will tell you which walls we would and would not do.
The material is priced by the tub, Veneziano Metallico 20kg is £175, and a single wall rarely takes much of it. Installation we quote once we have seen the wall, because the preparation behind a metallic finish is most of the labour. Ring 07592 929191, or send photographs and measurements, and we will come back with a figure.
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£150Emergency same day between Manchester and London. We go further for an additional charge

Delivery is charged on every order that ships, and collection from the studio is free. We deliver nationally and internationally. UK delivery is priced at checkout by weight. International delivery is quoted for each order, so email sales@zavore.co.uk with what you need and where it is going and we will send you a price.

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Liquid Metal, written down

Five years of technique, published openly. We would rather you got it right first time than had to buy the material twice.

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Metallic Plaster Walls, Real Metal Against Metallic Paint

How metallic plaster moves light in a way metallic paint cannot, what burnishing does to the effect, where the finish works, and how to light it...

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Elsewhere in the UK, see every area we cover. Want to learn it? See the Liquid metal course.

Questions & Answers

More questions, answered

What is liquid metal plaster?
Liquid metal plaster is a polished lime plaster or pearl glaze carrying mica and metal toned pigment, so the wall reads as brushed bronze, pewter or gold. It is trowelled on and burnished, not rolled. It is breathable over a lime background, touch dry in hours and hard over weeks. See metallic plaster walls.
How do I look after metallic plaster walls?
Use a soft dry cloth, with nothing abrasive and nothing with bleach in it. The wall is finished with wax or sealer, and sealer is the harder wearing answer where hands and steam reach. A scuff can often be waxed back. Our wax guide explains the options.
Where should I put metallic plaster walls, and where should I avoid them?
Put them where people come at the wall side on, such as a chimney breast, an alcove, a bar front or the wall behind a bed. Avoid long hallways and stairwells, where bags and the hoover mark the sheen, and avoid the wall behind a hob. Flat, even light kills the effect.
Can I have metallic plaster walls in a living room?
Yes, a living room is one of the best places for them. A chimney breast or an alcove catches light that moves through the day, and a wall near a window or washed by an uplighter does something different from morning to evening. One surface is almost always enough, with everything else kept matt.
Can a whole room be done in liquid metal plaster?
Yes, but we rarely advise it. One metallic wall is almost always enough, because a whole room stops being a finish and the second wall cancels the first. Keep everything else matt and let the metal be the one thing working. Tell us about the room via our contact page.
What colours does liquid metal come in?
Liquid metal comes in the colours listed on each product, including gold, bronze and pewter toned finishes. The colour underneath matters too, as a gold over a warm ground reads like old brass while the same gold over grey goes colder. See our colours page and order a sample board.
Can liquid metal plaster be repaired?
Sometimes. A scuff can often be waxed back, but a real gouge means relaying the wall corner to corner, because a patch will never pick up the stroke direction of what is around it. Keep a labelled sample board with the job. Metallic plaster cannot be patched without the patch showing.
Can metallic plaster be used in a kitchen?
Yes on walls away from the cooker, but not behind a hob, where heat and grease sit on the surface. A breakfast bar front or a dining wall is a better fit. Sealer is the quieter, harder wearing answer where hands and steam reach. Send photographs and we will tell you which walls we would do.
Can I apply liquid metal plaster myself?
It is possible, but not as a first project. A metallic is the same trowel work as polished plaster with less forgiveness, because the flakes record every stroke. Learn on a matt plaster and on a board first. Our Beginner Course covers metallics from bucket to burnish, or see metallic finishes installation.
What is the difference between Veneziano Metallico and Stucco Suede Metallico?
Veneziano Metallico is our polished Venetian with the shimmer through the body, the deepest and most reflective route. Stucco Suede Metallico is softer and cloudier, for walls where a full mirror polish would be too loud. A third route is a plain tinted base with pearl or metallic wax over the top.
Can liquid metal plaster go on a ceiling?
Yes, ceilings and coves that catch light from below suit metallic finishes well. The ceiling must be flat and primed, because every hollow reads as a dark patch and every proud edge as a bright one. The whole surface goes on in one go so the stroke direction stays consistent.
Does the wall need to be flat for metallic plaster?
Yes, metallic finishes are unforgiving about the wall behind them. Every hollow reads as a dark patch and every proud edge as a bright one, so the background is made flat and primed first. Plasterboard needs joints reinforced and the right primer. We survey the wall and say plainly if it needs skimming.
Do metallic walls need wax or sealer?
Yes, a metallic wall is finished with wax or sealer, and the choice changes the look. Wax burnished in lifts the sheen and deepens the colour, and a metallic wax can lay a second tone over the first. Sealer is quieter and harder wearing. See metallic wax.
Can restaurants, hotels and designers specify liquid metal?
Yes, restaurant, hotel and salon feature walls, bar fronts and reception desks are among the places it suits. Read our guide for designers and architects, and note that trade accounts get ten percent off every material. Installation is across the UK from our installers.

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