Interior and exterior painting across Greater Victoria — prepped properly, finished for coastal weather, your house handed back clean. And when a room deserves more than paint, Venetian plaster, limewash and decorative finishes by the same pair of hands.
Most of what we do is painting: interiors, exteriors, trim, doors and wood. Some of it is plaster and limewash, which most painting companies here do not offer. The care is the same either way — and you get me on the job, not a rotating crew.
Walls, ceilings, trim, doors and full exteriors. Proper prep, proper products, and a house left cleaner than we found it. This is most of what we do.
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Burnished lime and marble dust, troweled to a soft stone sheen. The finish designers specify and most painting companies don't offer.
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Mineral pigment brushed thin and wet, in layers. Cloudy depth that shifts as the sun crosses the room.
Explore →Paint is the right answer most of the time. It is durable, it is clean, and a properly prepped wall in the right colour is a genuinely beautiful thing. What it cannot create is the same movement—a properly painted wall is intentionally even, while a hand-applied mineral finish carries variation across the surface.
A mineral finish is worked into the wall wet, multiple passes, and carries a movement a roller physically cannot produce. It is slower and it costs more, and once it has set a repair takes real skill and can still show — which is the whole reason it matters who applies it. On the right wall it is worth every bit of that — and if it is not the right wall, I will tell you.
★★★★★“Kyle was amazing. He and his crew were incredibly professional, kind, thorough and detail oriented. I would highly suggest Kyle and his crew for any painting project. My home looks incredible!”
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★★★★★“Kyle is super quick and efficient! He did an excellent job painting our house including the ceilings, kitchen, main room, front door and closets. Highly recommend him!! He went over and above and makes sure every detail is perfect.”
★★★★★“Kyle is a great reputable business owner & painter. We had an awesome experience with him finishing up our renovation for our condo in Victoria. He is an effective communicator, and was able to achieve great results which we pictured for the space.”
★★★★★“Kyle helped us re-do our deck. He was on-time, very communicative, and effective in the work that was originally poorly done by a much larger, local company.”
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★★★★★“Kyle at Kings Touch Painting did an amazing job painting our house. He was very fast, affordable and made everything super easy. I would highly recommend!”
5.0 from 11 reviews on Google, as of August 2026. Every word above is a customer's, not mine — and every one of them is on my Google profile if you would rather read them there.
Read them on GoogleA photograph and a rough size are enough to get started. If a standard painted finish suits the room better than a specialty finish, I’ll tell you that first—I’d rather have the referral than the upsell.
Lime and marble dust, troweled in layers and burnished until the wall reads like stone. Very few painting companies here offer it. That is exactly why it's worth having.
Venetian plaster catches the light differently at every point in the day, and that is the whole reason to have it — it is also impossible to explain over the phone. Drag the slider: the room is the same, the finish is the same, only the light changes.
Orientation, light and what the room is used for. Those details help decide which finish, colour and sheen will work best.
Never a card. A real panel in your own light, watched over a full day, before a single square foot is committed.
Filled, sanded, primed to the right absorbency. Lime is unforgiving of a surface that wasn't prepared for it — this is where the job is won.
Multiple passes worked with the trowel while the material is live. Burnishing is compressing and polishing the surface with the trowel as it sets — the sheen comes from the material being pressed tight, not from anything taken off.
Polished up to make it cleaner and shinier, or left flat if that is the look you are after. Decided against the sample, not after the fact.
Protection depends on the finish, the room and the exact system being used. Some walls can be left natural; others receive a penetrating sealer, wax or both. The required protection and maintenance will be included with the quote.
Venetian plaster is a family of finishes rather than one product, and the names matter because they are what actually changes on your wall — how deep the polish goes, how coarse the grain reads, how much movement you see from across the room. I trowel all of them. If you already know the one you want, say the word and I will bring a board.
Lime and marble, trowelled tight and left matte or taken up to a soft sheen. The quietest of them — it reads as stone rather than as a finish, which is why designers specify it for whole rooms.
The polished one. Aged lime putty burnished until it holds a genuine depth you can see into. It comes in several grades — fine through to coarse — and the grade decides how much the surface moves in the light.
Textured, with the open pitting of real travertine stone. The most obviously tactile of the three, and the one people reach out and touch.
A lime finish formulated for outside walls, for when the look needs to carry from the inside out.
All of them are made in Vancouver by 5 Star Finishes, so a colour that needs matching is a week rather than a container from Italy. I do not do microcement — if that is genuinely what you want, I will tell you so rather than sell you something adjacent.
Liquid metal is the same trade as Venetian plaster and it goes on the same way — trowelled, then burnished up. What is different is what is in the tin: genuine metal powder rather than pigment, so the wall reads and ages as the metal it actually is.
Real metal powder in a water-based binder, trowelled on and burnished up. Not a metallic paint — it is genuine brass, bronze, copper, iron, nickel, stainless, zinc or tin on the wall, and it patinas like the metal it is. Interior only, and not for floors or countertops.
Every wall is different and there is no honest way to price one off a screen, so I am not going to put a range here that turns out to be wrong on your room. You get a written number after the walkthrough, and nothing is committed before that.
What I will do first is bring sample boards out to you, so you are looking at the finish in your own light rather than on a screen. If you want one made up in a specific colour, I can prepare a custom panel after the walkthrough.
Taking bookings now. If this is a finish you are interested in, I will bring the sample boards out and show you what it actually does in your own light. We can talk about the price once I have seen the wall and we know the scope.
You cannot choose a mineral finish from a screen, and I would not ask you to. Pick one and I'll bring real sample boards out to you, so you can stand them against your own wall and watch them through a full day of light before you decide anything. If you want a custom panel made up in a particular colour, I can prepare one after the walkthrough.
Slaked lime and mineral pigment, brushed on thin and wet, pass over pass. Cloudy movement you can't get out of a tin.
What each one is, how it goes on, and which rooms it actually suits — the part most people only find out after they have paid for it.
Warm off-white with a soft grey break. The safest way into a mineral finish.
Muted green that reads grey at noon and green at dusk. The one people photograph.
Deep and moody. Swallows light rather than reflecting it, which is the point.
A similar look, created with conventional paint rather than limewash. More washable and better suited to high-moisture rooms when the correct paint system is used—but it is a painted effect, not a mineral finish.
Lime wash goes on in coats like anything else — a minimum of two to three — but it doesn't build a film the way paint does. Each coat soaks into the one beneath it, and what comes out is cloud-like movement across the whole wall rather than one flat, even tone. Over bare masonry or a lime or cement plaster it needs no primer. Over drywall, which is nearly every room in Victoria, it gets a coat of the lime wash primer first, and that step is where lime wash jobs are won or lost.
The material is made in Vancouver. I use 5 Star Finishes for lime wash, Venetian plaster and liquid metal — microfiltered hydrated lime and powdered marble, blended to order rather than tinted out of a tin. It matters for two reasons. It is a day up the road instead of a container from Italy, so a colour that goes wrong is a week, not a season. And their lime wash can be matched to any Benjamin Moore or Sherwin-Williams colour — so the three finishes above are examples of what it does, not the list you have to choose from. If you have already picked a Benjamin Moore colour for the rest of the house, the lime wash can be that colour.
Water is the thing to be careful with, and the answer is the sealer rather than the room. The lime wash I use is made for interior and exterior surfaces, and it can be finished with a penetrating sealer, with soap, with wax, or left bare so that more coats can go on later. Left bare somewhere that gets splashed it will mark. Sealed, it takes a great deal more. It is still a mineral surface rather than a wipeable one, so I will tell you which walls want a sealer and which are better left open — and hand you the data sheet either way.
Filling, sanding, priming and masking—the work underneath that determines how the finish looks and how long it lasts. Benjamin Moore on the walls, interiors, exteriors, trim and wood, across Greater Victoria.
Clean, detailed interior painting for homes, suites and new construction. Floors covered, edges crisp, and your home put back in order when the work is done.
Durable, weather-resistant finishes built for Vancouver Island conditions. Washed, scraped, primed, finished to survive a winter here.
Professional staining and finishing where the grain should still read through. Slow work, and the part that makes a room look expensive.
You get Kyle, not a call centre. Usually a same-day reply.
We look at the room together and you get a written quote. Photos beforehand get you a much closer number.
The part that decides whether the finish lasts or fails early. Quoted honestly, which sometimes makes me not the cheapest number you receive.
Edges cut in carefully, and coats built up until the colour sits even. This is the part you are actually paying for, and it does not get rushed to fit another job in.
Floors covered, edges crisp, everything put back where you had it.
No colour charts and no jargon. Tell me about the room and I'll tell you what I would put in it — then you can move the light and watch all three. Every colour it gives you is a Benjamin Moore colour with its code, so you can look it up, buy a sample pot, or just send the three back to me.
Drag any of them. Same room, same camera, one of them before I turned up.
Not a wall of thumbnails. Each one is what the room was, what it needed, and what went on it.
A repaint, not a lime wash. The ceilings were caulked where the wood meets the drywall so the join reads seamless, then the walls were re-coated in a new colour to freshen the room, liven it up and bring the body of it out.
The house was failing. Scraped, sanded and stripped right back to bare, oil primed, then coated in a new finish that brings out the deep purple-blue colours — the ones that suit what is around it.
The drywall was badly damaged and the walls were a yellow that closed the room in. They wanted white and open so it reads bigger, with a deep blue feature wall. All of it hand cut in — no tape, so there is nothing to peel.
The doors had gone black from sea salt and sun. Stripped of the old stain, sanded smooth, then re-coated with an oil-based stain and a sealant over the top to bring the natural wood colour back. Doors are the highest-return square metre in a house — everybody puts a hand on one, and almost nobody spends anything on it.
I grew up on the Sunshine Coast and moved to Victoria a couple of years ago. I started Kings Touch Painting on my own and built it around careful preparation, clear communication and doing the work properly.
Painting is still most of my work. I've trained in Venetian plaster, limewash and liquid metal because some walls want depth you can't get from a roller—limewash shifts with the light through the day. A good painted wall is still a good painted wall.
I run Kings Touch myself. Most jobs are just me, sometimes with one trusted helper, and I stay involved from the first walkthrough to the final cleanup. I care about the experience during the job as much as the finished result—showing up when I say I will, keeping communication clear, protecting your home and leaving it clean when I’m done.
“The person that quoted is the person that shows up.”
I do the work myself, sometimes with one trusted helper alongside me. On specialty finishes I'm on site for every layer — that isn't a policy, it's just that I won't hand a lime wall to someone who hasn't done one.
If a standard paint suits your room better than plaster, I'll say so before you've spent anything. I would rather have the referral than the upsell, and I've cost myself money that way more than once.
Locally owned and operated, fully insured, and working across Victoria, Saanich and surrounding areas.
Ask me anything about the work — the finishes, the prep, how a job runs. I can pass your details to Kyle too, and he will get back to you himself.
Kyle prices every job after walking it, so I cannot quote here — but the walkthrough is free.
