What actually is limewash?

Limewash is slaked high-calcium lime thinned with water and colored with mineral pigment. It soaks into masonry rather than forming a film on top, then cures by absorbing carbon dioxide from the air and turning back into limestone. That is why it lasts and why it cannot peel — there is no film to lift.

Is limewash really zero VOC?

Yes. Our limewash contains high-calcium lime, water and mineral pigment. There are no synthetic binders, solvents or additives, so there is nothing to off-gas. That is the entire basis of our Zero VOC Home Program.

Limewash is meant to move — that cloudy, tonal variation is the finish, not a defect. How pronounced it is depends on application technique, dilution and the number of coats, all of which we tune to the look you approve on a physical sample first.

Can limewash go over painted walls?

Not directly — limewash needs a porous, mineral surface to bond with. Previously painted drywall needs a mineral primer first. We assess the substrate before quoting and specify the correct preparation.

Interior limewash · Dallas · Fort Worth · Palm Beach

The paint on your walls is still off-gassing.

Limewash isn't paint. It's slaked high-calcium lime, water and mineral pigment — nothing synthetic, nothing to off-gas, and it cures by turning back into limestone inside your wall.

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Our interior limewash work

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A vaulted living room with a warm white limewashed fireplace wall rising to the ceiling

A two-storey curved staircase wall in cloudy white limewash

A primary bathroom limewashed in deep oxblood, walls and ceiling

A bedroom feature wall in warm beige limewash behind the bed

A room limewashed in deep blue on the walls and ceiling

A tall beige limewashed chimney wall between arched built-in shelves

A two-storey foyer and stairwell finished in soft grey limewash

A dining room with taupe limewashed walls under wood beams

Episode 2 · How Modern Paint is Killing You

Episode 3 · The Carcinogen On Your Walls

Episode 1 · From Setback to Limewash Success: Meet Ben Lynch

The company we keep

A short list of the clients, builders and designers who bring us in when the finish has to be right.

Dak Prescott’s homeFull interior Venetian plaster — 25,000 sq ft, every wall and every ceiling

Tim Jackson Custom HomesTexas Association of Builders — J.B. Sandlin Builder of the Year, 2024, and a past President of the association

Verizon WirelessExterior stucco — 105 locations

Aaron Wallruth Custom HomesPremier luxury builder for the Dallas Cowboys

Clients & Projects

NorthPark Mall — Dallas
Heath Golf & Yacht Club
Mango Yard
Voodoo Brewing
Le Unique Skin Lab

Builders & Developers

Whittle Development
Sean Maness Construction
Hillseth Construction
Solid Rock Custom Builds
Peterson Construction Group
DD Insulation & Construction

Designers & Brands

Katie Whittle Designs
Hilseth Designs
Baker Designs
Tim Jackson Designs
Brick & batten
Romabio

Blended in our own shop

The White House Blend™ is our own limewash, mixed and tinted to order against your job rather than pulled off a shelf. High-calcium lime, water and mineral pigment. Nothing else goes in it.

Warrantied for life

A lifetime warranty on our workmanship in The White House Blend — the only interior finish we warranty that way. Defects in our work, for as long as you own the wall.

The Zero VOC Home Program

The EPA found the air inside the average home is 2–5 times more polluted than the air outside it. We measure your home, move every painted wall and ceiling to zero-VOC limewash, then measure again. From $85 a month.

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Who we are

Thirty seconds, then stay for the podcast.

I’m Ben Lynch. I started LimeWash Pros after reading what the EPA had published about the air inside ordinary American houses — and realizing the walls were the problem.

Meet LimeWash Pros

Who we are, what lime does that paint cannot, and why the air inside your house is the reason we do this.

The podcast

11:33
From Setback to Limewash Success: Meet Ben Lynch
Why I walked away from conventional paint, what I found in the research on VOCs, and how that turned into LimeWash Pros.
12:10
How Modern Paint is Killing You
The VOCs in ordinary latex paint don’t stop off-gassing when the wall dries. What that does to the air in your house.
9:43
The Carcinogen On Your Walls
Benzene is a known human carcinogen and it is in the paint on every surface of your home. What the research says.

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