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Where Artistry Begins
Chinoiserie on gold leaf, florals, skies and scenes painted by hand onto your wall and designed for that room alone, in Windsor homes and hospitality spaces.
Murals in Windsor can turn a plain wall into the centrepiece of the room. Zavoré paints them by hand, straight onto your wall, and designs each one for that space alone. We also supply, install and teach authentic Italian lime based Venetian plaster. Our nearest showroom and training centre in London is open by appointment. Start by sending a photo of the wall and any pictures that inspire you.
Windsor has a long habit of dressing its rooms. Behind the brick fronts around Park Street and Church Street there are low Georgian cottages with small, much loved rooms, and the Victorian streets that spread out towards Clewer have bays, alcoves and tall chimney breasts that all need something on the walls.
A mural can be drawn around all of this. Because it is painted by hand rather than printed, it follows your doors, windows, alcoves and ceiling line. A river scene with willows and reeds could run round a dining room, or a sky could climb a stairwell and carry the eye up.
The oldest murals in the world are cave paintings, and the craft has never gone out of use. In Britain, hand painted Chinese wallpapers arrived in country houses in the 1700s, and chinoiserie is still among the most asked for styles today. We paint it by hand, which means blossom and birds can climb round a door frame instead of cutting off at a seam.
At home, chinoiserie suits a dining room, and a gold leaf background makes it glow in candlelight. Florals and skies work well in hallways, stairwells and ceilings, and a children's room can carry a story that grows with them.
A town that hosts so many visitors has plenty of hospitality spaces. A restaurant, bar, café or hotel can use a mural to set itself apart, with a logo or lettering worked into the design. Offices, reception areas and shop interiors can do the same.
The full range of styles and ideas is on our murals page. If a wall is to take both plaster and paint, a limewash or marmorino ground first gives the picture the look of old fresco, and we can do both.
You send a photo of the wall, its size and the ideas, colours or images you have in mind. We sketch the mural to the scale of your wall and agree the colours with you before any paint goes on.
The wall is then prepared and the mural is painted by hand in your room. Where it is needed, such as in a busy hallway or a commercial space, the finished mural is sealed so it can be wiped clean. We survey the wall first and say plainly if it needs work before painting.
If the job needs several days on site, we plan it in blocks so the artist stays on the wall. Dates are agreed once the design and price are signed off. More about the work itself is on the hand painted murals page.
Everything we install, we teach. The training courses run at our centres in Birmingham, London and Manchester, and the same courses run at each. A mural pairs happily with gilded backgrounds, lime plaster and mouldings, and you can browse them all under decorative work.
A painted wall rarely stands alone. Gold behind the blossom is explained in gilding in Windsor, and a mural above a panelled dado fits with cornice and coving in Windsor. If you would like depth that can be felt as well as seen, read about bas relief in Windsor and sculptural plaster in Windsor. Dark glossy rooms that sit beside a painted one are in lacquered walls in Windsor. Tile and glass work is under mosaics in Windsor, and for gardens and stone textures there are artificial rock in Windsor and travertino in Windsor. Our decorative finishes specialist in Windsor page gathers the rest, and Venetian plastering in Windsor covers the plastered grounds that make a good backdrop.
Yes. Branches, blossom and birds can be painted straight onto the wall, or onto gold leaf, silver leaf or grasscloth, drawn around your doors and windows rather than repeating off a roll.
They are different things. Printed paper comes in set widths with seams and a repeat. A hand painted mural is drawn to your exact wall, can be adjusted as it develops, and is one of a kind.
A mural on a sound, properly prepared wall lasts for years. Where a wall gets heavy wear, such as a hallway or a commercial space, we seal it so it can be wiped clean.
Yes. A mural over a limewash or marmorino background picks up the soft movement of the plaster beneath, which gives the painting an aged, fresco like depth.
To talk about a wall, call 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm) or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photos, rough measurements and the postcode. If a plaster ground is part of the plan, begin with a sample board.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Windsor 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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