Sealed Flake – Ilumitextra
Interior — walls, ceilings, splash backs & units
This is where most of the decorative work happens, and it is nearly always one wall rather than four. A chimney breast, the wall the television sits on, the run behind a bed, the hall you walk into. One wall carries the whole room, and because it is one wall you can be braver with it than you would be with the lot.
The finishes divide roughly by how much light you want back. Sealed Flake and Crystal Brush throw it — sparkle that moves as you cross the room, and the ones we are asked for most in bedrooms. Venetian plaster and Marmorino hold it: depth and trowel movement rather than shine, which is what a room with a fire in it usually wants.
It does not have to stop at a flat wall. We have run finishes around fire surrounds, over media walls with the television and fire set into them, across ceilings, into porches and up stairwells — anywhere the shape is more interesting than paint deserves.
Finishes that suit a living space
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Media Wall in Venetian Plaster
The Venetian plaster backdrop to a media wall designed and installed by Get Connected IOM — a warm, mottled panel behind the screen that changes with the light.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Venetian Plaster, Polished Plaster
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Microcement Shelves, Douglas
Shelves built from scratch and covered in microcement with an aged look — mottled and blotched, closer to old stone than new cement, running the width of a stone-clad feature wall.
Finishes:
MicroCement, Bespoke Finishes
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Pure Nickel Feature Wall, Santon
A feature wall finished in pure nickel metal — real metal laid on and worked by hand, running across the television recess, the fire beneath it and the open shelved recesses alongside.
Finishes:
Metallic
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Glitter Walls, Bradda Head
Great to be back doing some glitter walls. A bright room at Bradda Head under a vaulted glazed roof on oak beams, the walls done in a fine white glitter that only shows itself where the sun lands.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Crystal Brush
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Fire Breast in Grey Plaster with a Hint of Glitter
A single fire breast taken floor to ceiling in our grey plaster with a hint of glitter — restrained enough to read as plain grey until the light moves across it.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Glitter, Polished Plaster
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Champagne Glitter Wall, Living Room
A living room wall stripped back to patched plaster, finished in champagne glitter flake — it definitely brightened the room up.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Glitter Flake
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Ilumitextra Kitchen & Conservatory, Andreas
Our Ilumitextra colour blends on the walls of a kitchen and conservatory in Andreas — a hard-wearing, totally washable finish that gives the rooms their wow factor as well.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Sealed Flake
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Pink Ilumitextra Girl's Room
One wall of a little girl's room in our very glittery pink Ilumitextra — chosen as much for being hard wearing and washable as for the sparkle.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Sealed Flake
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Front Porch in Crystal Quartz
A front porch in Crystal Quartz with gold glitter — sand walls, a bronze sill, and a set of night photographs to show what the flake does once the lanterns come on.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Crystal Quartz, Glitter
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Man Cave, Ramsey
A garden shed in Ramsey sprayed inside — ceiling, walls and floor — with ThermoCork, so a cold timber cabin became a room that can be used all year.
Finishes:
Spray Cork Render
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Grey & Silver Glitter with Holographic
A bedroom in grey and silver glitter with just a touch of holographic — a finish that reads as plain warm grey until the light moves and the colour comes out of it.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Sealed Flake
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Conservatory in White & Gold
A conservatory ceiling sprayed in white with gold flakes to bring the colours of the garden indoors — and the client's old picture frame given the same treatment.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Glitter, Crystal Quartz
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Bronze & Black Feature Wall
A chimney breast wall taken from bare base coat to a deep bronze and black Ilumitextra — a whole wall of dark sparkle around a stone fireplace.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Sealed Flake
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Pink Glitter Bedroom
A lovely pink glitter feature wall in a lucky little girl's bedroom, finished just ready for Christmas — a whole wall of sparkle from skirting to ceiling.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Crystal Brush
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Ilumitextra Hall & Fire Breasts
A hallway done in our grey and silver glitter to bring light and space to a now stunning hall — with the cupboard doors and two fire breasts in pure metallic to match.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Metallic, Sealed Flake
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Fire Surround in Black & Bronze
A full media wall finished in black and bronze textured plaster — recessed fire, flush TV and inset speakers, giving the room an extra wow factor.
Finishes:
Bespoke Finishes
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Ilumitextra Porch
Porches always get scuffed and marked — this one got our Ilumitextra full gun metal glitter for a hard-wearing, washable finish with that added WOW factor.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Sealed Flake
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Silver Ilumitextra Porch
A beautiful porch finished in our pure silver glitter — sparkling around the front door, the window and the crystal light, and definitely adding a WOW factor.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Sealed Flake
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Ilumitextra Hallway, Regaby
A hallway in Regaby where the dogs were leaving marks on the walls — transformed with glitter flakes under three coats of hard-wearing polyurethane.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Sealed Flake
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Feature Walls, Craig & Charlie's Hall
Beautiful silver Marmorino feature walls in Craig & Charlie's hall — a bespoke new finish we came up with just for them, and they love it.
Finishes:
Marmorino, Bespoke Finishes
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Grey Glitter Bedroom
A lovely grey glitter feature wall in this stunning bedroom — our glitters giving walls and rooms that something special.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Crystal Brush
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Glitter Feature Wall for Dawn
A stunning white glitter feature wall for Dawn — it totally transformed the bedroom and gave them something very special.
Finishes:
Decorative Finishes, Crystal Brush
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Bedroom Re-Creation
Plasterboarding and traditional plastering on the Isle of Man: a bedroom stripped to the substrate, walls sealed and levelled, windows reset and new plasterboard fitted ready for skimming.
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Living Area, King Edward Bay
Crystal Brush applied to further walls in the living area, continuing the glistening, sparkling effect from the living room of this King Edward Bay property.
Finishes:
Crystal Brush
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Living Room, King Edward Bay
Crystal Brush on the living room walls of a King Edward Bay home — a glittering finish running subtle to bold depending on the light.
Finishes:
Crystal Brush
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Domed Ceiling, The Arches
Lucidato polished plaster applied to the curved dome ceiling at The Arches, Port Erin — one of the most demanding jobs we have taken on.
Finishes:
Lucidato, Curves & Columns, Polished Plaster
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