As the interior of the mill is fairly dark due to low ceiling, wooden beams and small windows, the intention is the lighten the appearance of the wood by lime-washing the beams. Lime-washing, otherwise known as whitewashing, is a low cost solution made from slaked lime and chalk in water. The lime wash effect is traditionally used as a treatment to alter the appearance of unfinished, unpainted wood, in the form of beams or even furniture. The attraction of using this finish is that it still retains some of the features of the wooden beams, with an effect that is not possible with paint alone, which would completey cover the beams. In order to fix the lime wash permanently to the beams, they can be covered with a coat of varnish.
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Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. Varnishes for wood
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