# Apply finishes

Paint, varnish, veneer or laminate furniture, paint or paper walls, choose flooring, and see the result in presentation mode.

A finish changes how a surface looks. It does not change the cut list, the cutting plan or what you buy. You select a finish from the swatches in **Properties**. Hold the pointer on a swatch to see its name.

## Finish a part or a piece of furniture

1. Select the part or the furniture.
2. In **Properties**, find the **Finish** row.
3. Click a swatch.

For furniture you can use paint, clear finishes, veneers, laminates and worktop surfaces. For an assembly, the swatches also include metal, glass, plastic, ceramic and stone. A clear finish, for example **Clear oil**, keeps the colour and grain of the material and changes only the sheen. A finish on an assembly applies to every part in it, unless a part has its own finish.

To remove a finish, click the first swatch, **Default (material look)**.

## Finish all the doors of a unit

Some furniture is made from parameters, for example a cabinet. For a part of such a unit, **Properties** shows **Apply to**.

1. Select one part of the unit, for example a door.
2. In **Apply to**, select **all doors in** followed by the name of the unit.
3. Click a swatch in **Finish**.

All the parts of that kind in the unit get the finish. This includes parts that a later parameter change adds.

## Paint or paper a wall

1. Select the wall.
2. In **Finish side**, select **inside (room)** or **outside**. If the wall has skirting, you can also select **skirting**.
3. Click a paint or wallpaper swatch in **Finish**.

## Finish a full room

1. Select the room in the **Model** panel.
2. In **Properties**, find **Finishes**.
3. Click a swatch for **Walls**, **Floor** or **Ceiling**.

**Walls** paints or papers the inside of every wall in the room. **Floor** has boards, laminate, carpet and tiles, and the clear finishes. **Ceiling** has ceiling white and the paints.

## Make your own colour

1. Select the item, and find its row of swatches as in the steps above.
2. Click **+** after the last swatch in that row. Its name is **New colour**.
3. In **New colour…**, type a **Name**.
4. In **Colour**, select the colour.
5. To change the sheen, select it in **Sheen**, for example **Eggshell**. The default is **Matt**.
6. Click **Create and apply**.

KerfCraft applies the finish to the item, or to the wall or room side that you selected. A finish that you make is saved with the project. It shows in the swatches with the other finishes.

The form also has **Category**, **Roughness**, **Metalness**, **Transmission** and **Texture**. **Category** starts as the kind of swatches in that row, for example paint. **Transmission** is for glass: 1 is clear. A texture needs a **Texture › Kind** and a **Texture › Scale**, the size of one repeat.

The assistant can also make a finish. For example: "Make a paint finish called Hallway blue, colour #3c5a78, eggshell, and put it on the hall walls."

## See the finishes in presentation mode

1. Click **Presentation** in the 3D view.

Presentation mode hides the grid, the axes, the edges and the selection outlines, and turns on shadows. Click **Presentation** again to go back.

To see through walls and ceilings while you work, click **X-ray**.

## Related

- [Set up a view](/docs/how-to/pictures/set-up-a-view/)
- [Try another material with AI](/docs/how-to/pictures/try-another-material-with-ai/)