Rebel Venetian — Truckee, CA
The plaster designers specify when the room has to be right.
Rebel Venetian is Kyle Railton's plaster studio in Truckee. Not one artisan with a trowel, a trained crew delivering Venetian plaster across whole homes, commercial spaces and one-off installations in the greater Tahoe area. Designers bring us in when a surface has to carry a room, and they bring us back because the work holds up and so does the crew.
The crew
Trained in house, to one standard.
Kyle trained a crew of more than twenty Venetian plaster applicators, and every one of them learned the material here. That's why the finish reads the same in the great room as it does in the primary suite, and why the sample you approve is the wall you get. On a trade where most outfits are one person deep, a crew is the difference between a beautiful sample and a finished house.
From the designers who specify us
We put Rebel Venetian through the wringer, and they delivered. We push timelines, expect precision, and demand high-end results, and their team consistently rises to the occasion without compromising quality.
Their work in our Tahoe Modern showroom, five distinct wall applications, each with its own depth, movement, and character, speaks to a true mastery of the craft.
What we do
Three kinds of job, one crew.
The showroom
Visit our Truckee showroom. Every finish is on the wall.
Plaster is a material you want to stand in front of. The depth, the movement, the way a surface shifts as the light moves through the day: that's the part people fall for, and it lands when you're close enough to touch it. Samples are up across every finish, from dark and moody to light and soft. Visits are by appointment, which means Kyle is there and the hour is yours rather than whatever he can spare between jobs.
10981 Industrial Way #112, Truckee, CA 96161
By appointment.
From people who walked in
The variety of the custom finishes is mind blowing. Textures, color, patterns, sculpture. Some samples are dark and moody, others so light and soft.
Kyle and Chris are true masters of their craft. They recently completed a beautiful plaster wall for our studio and I couldn't be happier.
I'm lucky to have seen many projects Kyle and his crew have completed. Always impressively beautiful work.
How a project runs
Come see it, or we come to you
Samples in the showroom, or we bring boards to the site. Seeing the real thing in your own light is what makes the choice easy.
We spec it against the room
Light, traffic, moisture and what's going on the adjacent surfaces. A wet room and a great room aren't the same specification.
We book into your timeline
You get a date and we hold it.
The crew applies it
Multiple coats over multiple days, burnished and sealed. We clean the site and we hit the date.
Who runs it
Kyle Railton, Novacolor ambassador and bootcamp winner.
Named to Novacolor's 2026 class of ten ambassadors, then took the highest score at their bootcamp in Venice that May, in his first year. He is also the 2026 Best Local Artist for Truckee and North Lake Tahoe. He teaches this trade internationally and runs Rebel Academy out of the Truckee shop.
The full record →We work across Truckee and the greater Tahoe area.
The shop is on Industrial Way in Truckee, twenty five minutes from the lake. We take projects in Tahoe City, Incline Village, Northstar, Martis Camp, Tahoe Vista and the surrounding communities.