Decoration and finishes in Marrakech

• Tadelakt: a smoothed, polished lime plaster, well suited to bathrooms, niches and basins, with a soft, gently nuanced look.
• Polished concrete: a seamless surface for walls, worktops or floors, restrained and contemporary, which needs a perfectly prepared base.
• Lime plasters and limewashes: breathable materials with lively tones, suited to old walls and calm interiors alike.
• Stucco and marmorino: burnished plasters with a marble effect, glossy or satin, for a stair wall, a hall or a bedhead.
• Textured effects: patinas and reliefs worked by hand to avoid the flatness of a painted wall.
• Wallpapers and panoramic murals: to give a room its own identity, hung on a smooth base and matched with care.
• Slats, 3D panels and wall panelling: timber or composite, to give a wall rhythm, hide a flaw or integrate lighting.

Each material has its own constraints in use. Tadelakt copes with water but needs suitable care; polished concrete dislikes unstable bases; lime prefers walls that can breathe. We advise you according to the room, its exposure and how it is used.

Tadelakt, polished concrete, stucco: which one, room by room

Our tadelakt, zellige and staff guide goes into the materials, their uses and their upkeep.

The ceiling is the room’s fifth wall. Plasterboard false ceilings, suspended ceilings, light coves, cornices, ceiling roses, bespoke staff plasterwork: we design the ceiling together with the lighting, not after it. Well-placed indirect light shows off a plaster and softens a room without overloading it.

Staff can also be restored when an old decorative feature has been damaged. For specific motifs, see our dedicated page on staff and decorative plasterwork.

Every fine finish starts with a sound base. Filling, sanding, treating damp-prone areas, a suitable primer: this invisible work decides how well paint or wallpaper lasts. Our teams carry out interior and exterior painting, glass-fibre lining, lacquering and the hanging of wallpapers and panoramic murals with precise matching.

For a light refurbishment this is often the best starting point: a freshened room, an accent wall, a wallpaper in the entrance, without touching the services.

• Laying a beautiful material on an unstable base: cracks and detachment almost always come from poor preparation.
• Piling up effects: three strong materials in one room compete. A single feature per room is often enough.
• Choosing a colour from a small swatch without seeing the local light at different times of day.
• Deciding on lighting after the ceilings and plasters are done.
• Underestimating upkeep: each material needs its own care, which we explain at handover.
• Leaving decoration to the end of the budget: it is better decided at the planning stage, so that the technical routes serve the decor.

For a larger project, decoration fits into a full renovation: request a visit and a quote and we coordinate the whole.