Authentic Historical Finishes Customized for Your Home
At Period Designs Company, we specialize in authentic historical finishes that reflect the character and era of your home. Whether you're restoring a historic property or creating a timeless look in a new space, we offer a wide variety of finishes tailored to your needs.
We proudly use high-quality materials from trusted companies such as The Real Milk Paint Company, Old Village Paints and Stains, and Caromal Colours to achieve historically accurate and beautifully aged finishes. In addition to these premium brands, we’ve developed our own in-house formulations, allowing us to create custom colors exclusive to your project.
Below is just a small sample of the available finishes for reference. We offer a much larger palette and can custom color-match existing finishes in your home for a seamless, period-appropriate result.
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17th Century finish
Single color Salmon with distressing and aging
For this finish, our milk paint or latex is used to create the old look of the dry painted finish found on early pieces. this finish typically does not have a protective topcoat and will continue to wear and chip away as an original piece would have. We use this for furniture only that receives light use. This is a one-color only finish as it was the first finish on a piece from that period. Simulated distressing and aging will be present. Glaze and a top coat can be added.
For this finish our latex paint can be used, this gives a good look of an old piece but with the added glazes and toners and finished off with a low luster topcoat for added durability. This finish is a single color or over and darker undercoat color and can be used on our cabinetry and furniture. All pieces will have light distressing with an aged finish.
Primitive Paint Finish
Meeting House Red over Walnut Hulls
Historic Finish
This Finish consist of two or more colors of choice may be used and will have layers and rub thru to show underlying color and wood and will be glazed and top coated with a low luster finish.
Three color paint sample with heavy distressing and aging
Red Over Black