One person, two trades, one coast.
House of Gold & Stone is a plaster and painting studio in Flagler Beach. There is no crew and no sales office. The person who quotes your job is the person who does it.
Work with us
House of Gold & Stone is a plaster and painting studio in Flagler Beach. There is no crew and no sales office. The person who quotes your job is the person who does it.
Work with us
Ten years of professional painting came first, and it taught the part of the trade nobody photographs: that a finish is decided long before the finish coat, and that almost everything separating good work from adequate work happens while the walls are still bare.
Venetian plaster came later and came slowly. Lime is not a product you buy and apply. It is a material with opinions - about temperature, about how thirsty the wall underneath is, about exactly when it wants to be burnished and when that window has closed. Learning it cost years of practice and a great deal of money.
I started House of Gold & Stone because I fell in love with venetian plaster myself - not just for the aesthetics, but the meditative process of applying it.
The studio is named for the two things a lime wall is made of and the one thing it is trying to become.
Owner & applicator
Every estimate, every sample board, every coat, and every follow-up call. No subcontractors, no rotating crews, and no one on site you have not already met.
That is a real constraint and it is worth naming plainly: it caps how much work can be taken on in a year, and it means the schedule matters more here than at a company that can add a truck. It also means there is nobody to hand the blame to, which is the point.
I have been painting in one form or another for more than ten years, alongside a career in software engineering. Eventually, I grew tired of spending so much of my life sitting in a chair, making things that existed almost entirely on a screen. I wanted to work with my hands again. I wanted to make something physical, something I could stand back from at the end of the day and see (and touch!).
Software and painting taught me different kinds of patience, precision, and respect for the process. Venetian plaster brought those disciplines together in a way that felt natural. It demands both the mind and the hands, and it rewards the kind of attention that cannot be rushed.
That is ultimately why I started House of Gold & Stone: to make beautiful things carefully, with my own hands, and to take responsibility for every one of them.
What we do — 01
Lime finishes applied in thin coats and polished by hand: marmorino, stucco veneziano, Bianco Carrara, grassello, tadelakt, and gilded work. Priced by the wall and scheduled by the week, because these finishes cannot be rushed without showing it.
What we do — 02
Interior repaints, cabinetry and millwork, coastal exteriors, and the substrate repair that has to happen first. The same preparation standard as the plaster work, because it is the same person doing it.
Four stages. The questions people usually have — what it costs, how long it takes, how much mess — are answered in the first three.
We look at the room in the light it actually gets, at the time of day you actually use it. Lime reads completely differently at nine in the morning and at four in the afternoon.
You get physical boards in the real finish, tinted to your fixtures and stone, to live with in the room for a few days. Nothing is approved off a screen.
Line-itemed by surface, with the coat count and the schedule in writing. If the calendar does not work for you, we say so before anything is signed.
Dust control and masking first, then the work, then a walkthrough with you before the last drop cloth comes up. [WARRANTY TERMS]