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Bespoke mosaic art and careful installation, from one splashback to a full floor. Zavoré is based in Birmingham and our artisans lay mosaic in Exeter homes and businesses.
Small pieces, laid with patience, can turn a bathroom or hallway into the room people talk about, and mosaics in Exeter have a good deal of ground to cover. Zavoré designs bespoke mosaic art and also installs mosaic you have already chosen, preparing, setting and grouting it properly. We are based in Birmingham, where our Academy is. The easiest first step is a note with photos of the space, measurements and the picture or pattern in your mind.
Exeter's Victorian streets, such as those around St Leonard's, Mount Radford and Pennsylvania, often have a hall with a tiled floor or a border that has worn, been covered or lost pieces. A new mosaic floor or inlaid border in that space is the first thing a visitor steps on, and it suits those proportions well.
Bathrooms are the other big opportunity. Small pieces wrap round curves and fall to a shower drain in a way large tiles cannot, and all those grout lines give grip underfoot. In the newer flats near the Quay and the university, a feature wall in the bathroom is often the only chance to add colour.
The estuary offers a palette. Soft blues, sand, slate and the green of the water meadows work in glass, while warm red tones echo the local stone and brick. Tell us where the mosaic will go and what it must put up with, and we will talk through materials before you spend anything.
Showers and shower floors, splashbacks behind a hob, sink or bar, hall floors, borders and feature walls are all well suited. Pools and spa areas in hotels and larger houses are another place where a design made for the space looks right.
For restaurants, cafés and shops, a crest, a logo or a pattern can be laid piece by piece into a counter front, a floor or a wall. Our mosaics page tells the story of the craft, from Roman tesserae to the glass smalti still made in Venice.
Glass does not absorb water, which is why it is normally chosen for pools and showers, and it gives deep colour and shimmer. Marble is natural stone, warmer and softer, and wants sealing where it gets wet or walked on. Stone and ceramic fall between the two.
Send photos of the space and its measurements, along with a sketch or reference if you have one. We survey the surface, because mosaic needs a sound, flat, suitable substrate, and we tell you plainly if it needs work first.
A bespoke design is drawn to scale and the colours and materials are agreed with you. The mosaic is then laid piece by piece to the approved design, grouted and finished, and sealed where the material needs it. The mosaic installation page goes through the steps.
We do not sell mosaic tiles at the moment, but we will install ones you have bought yourself. Exeter is some way from Birmingham, so a larger floor or wall is planned in blocks of days with the team on site until it is complete. Dates are set after you have signed off the design and price.
Our training page lists courses at our centres in Birmingham, London and Manchester. To see how mosaic sits beside plaster, gold leaf and relief, browse our decorative work.
A mosaic panel is often only one element of an Exeter scheme. A carved wall might be bas relief in Exeter or patterned sculptural plaster in Exeter, and a painted scene belongs to murals in Exeter. Gold leaf is explained under gilding in Exeter. For a high shine on a nearby wall, see lacquered walls in Exeter, and for the ceiling line above, cornice and coving in Exeter. Poolside rock features come under artificial rock in Exeter, and lime stone effects under travertino in Exeter. The decorative finishes specialist in Exeter page brings it together, and Venetian plastering in Exeter covers polished lime walls.
Yes. Describe what you have bought and where it will go, and we will price the fitting.
Glass is normally chosen for a shower because water cannot soak into it. Tell us how the room is used and we will say what we would pick.
Yes, whether it is a crest, a portrait, a pattern or a scene. A scaled drawing comes first, for your approval.
It depends on the surface, which must be sound and flat. Send photos and we will advise, and we survey before pricing.
You can ring 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm) or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photos, rough measurements and the postcode. If a plaster finish will sit next to the mosaic, the sample board is a good place to start.
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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