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Where Artistry Begins
Chinoiserie, florals, skies and scenes, painted by hand onto your wall and drawn for that room alone. Zavoré is based in Birmingham and our artists paint in Exeter.
A painted wall can change how a room feels more than almost any piece of furniture, and murals in Exeter suit a city full of rooms with character and no obvious centrepiece. Zavoré paints murals by hand, drawn to your exact wall and never printed from a roll. Our base is Birmingham, where the Academy is, and our artists work across the UK. To begin, send a photo of the wall, its size and a few pictures that show the mood you want.
Many Exeter houses are tall and narrow. Georgian terraces near Southernhay and Victorian streets in St Leonard's and Newtown have long stairwells, high dining room walls and awkward alcoves, all places where a printed paper looks repetitive and a painted scene can climb right up.
Devon itself offers a supply of subject matter. Hedgerow flowers, a heron on the estuary, orchards, and the wide skies over the Exe could each become a landscape that wraps a room. Chinoiserie has a place in Devon too, since the eighteenth century Chinese wallpapers at Saltram are among those kept by the National Trust.
We paint chinoiserie by hand, with branches, blossom and birds climbing around your doors and windows, either straight onto the wall or over gold leaf, silver leaf or grasscloth. A gilded alcove behind a painted bough is a particularly striking use of a small Georgian recess.
In houses, think of dining rooms, hallways, stairwells, ceilings and children's bedrooms. A busy family hall can be sealed after painting so that scuffs wipe clean. Skies and florals on a ceiling lift a low upstairs room without adding furniture.
Exeter has a lively food and student scene, and restaurants, bars, cafés and gyms around the Quay and the centre can give a space its own identity with a large scene, with logos and lettering worked into the picture. Our murals page lists the styles, and you can read about fresco and the long history of wall painting there too.
If a plastered wall is part of the plan, a mural over limewash or marmorino picks up the soft movement beneath and gains a faded, fresco like depth. We can do the plastering and the painting together.
We start from your photo and measurements. Next comes a sketch to the scale of your wall, and we agree colours with you before any paint goes on. A survey of the wall comes before pricing, and we say plainly if it needs filling or repair first.
The painting itself happens in your room, by hand, on a wall that has been properly prepared. Where traffic is heavy, as in a hallway or a restaurant, the mural is sealed at the end. Our hand painted murals page shows the kinds of rooms we paint.
Because Exeter is some way from Birmingham, a larger mural is planned in blocks of days so the artist stays on the job from first brush stroke to finished wall. Dates are agreed once the design and price are signed off.
If you would like to learn rather than commission, our courses run in Birmingham, London and Manchester. Our wider decorative work page shows how murals sit with plaster, gold leaf and relief.
Murals often share a room with other work. Raised scenery is made by bas relief in Exeter, and repeated textured panels by sculptural plaster in Exeter. Water features and bathrooms may suit mosaics in Exeter, while a gilded ground belongs to gilding in Exeter. A dark gloss room next door could use lacquered walls in Exeter, and period ceilings cornice and coving in Exeter. Gardens call for artificial rock in Exeter, and stone looks come from travertino in Exeter. For the overall service see our decorative finishes specialist in Exeter page, and for lime walls see Venetian plastering in Exeter.
A mural is any painting made straight onto a wall. A fresco is one kind, painted into fresh lime plaster. Most modern murals are painted onto a prepared, dry wall.
Yes. Every mural is designed for the client. Bring a photograph, a mood board or a sketch and we turn it into a design for your wall.
On a sound, well prepared wall it lasts for years. Where a wall gets heavy wear we seal it so it can be cleaned.
Yes. Logos and lettering can be worked into the design for restaurants, bars, hotels, offices and shops.
Call 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm) or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photos of the wall, rough measurements and the postcode. For a plaster background, begin with the sample board.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Exeter and we will come back to you with the right finish and a clear quote.
For a quote, email photos and measurements of your walls to sales@zavore.co.uk or call 07592 929191, Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm.
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Our main services: Venetian plaster installation, limewash installation, every decorative installation, Venetian plastering courses, the limewash course and our decorative finishes.
We also supply the trade by post, wherever you are. The shop ships tracked across the UK, and the Academy teaches the finishes in Birmingham, London and Manchester.
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