Ten years in plaster
Boise and Meridian, four materials, one way of working.
Ryan, Nu Terra Finishes
Who we are
We would rather be right than agreeable
Nu Terra has been applying natural wall finishes across Boise and Meridian for 10 years. In that time the single most useful thing we have learned is that most bad plaster jobs are not application failures. They are specification failures. The wrong material got picked for the room, usually because it looked right in a photograph.
So we front-load the awkward part of the conversation. If you want lime in a busy kitchen, we will tell you it is going to mark before we quote it, not after you notice. If the honest answer is that your room does not need us at all, you will get that answer too.
We make our own colors, we sample them on your wall in your light, and we do not compress a cure to hit a date. That is most of the method.
What we hold to
Four things
The trade-off comes first
Every finish gives something up. You hear what it is before you commit.
Preparation is the job
On most walls, prep is the larger share of the work. It is also what decides how the wall looks in year five.
The material decides the timeline
Lime cures when it cures. We schedule around that rather than pretending otherwise.
We stay in our radius
Boise metro and Meridian. Knowing local building stock is most of what makes a finish last.
Start with a conversation
Tell us the room and we will tell you the finish. Consultations are free and there is no obligation.