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The honest materials movement is rewriting British interiors
Lime plaster, untreated oak and clay paints are displacing the painted MDF of the past decade.
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Charlotte Reeve
Yesterday · 5 min read
A decade of painted MDF and engineered finishes is giving way, in the more thoughtful end of British residential design, to a return to materials that age rather than degrade.
Lime plaster, untreated oak, clay paints and traditional linoleum are reappearing in projects that, only a few years ago, would have specified their synthetic equivalents almost by reflex.
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