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Chinoiserie on gold leaf, oversized florals, skies and landscapes, painted straight onto your wall and drawn around your doors, windows and alcoves.
Murals in Bournemouth suit a place that already thinks in pictures, with its pines, beach and bay. Zavoré is based in Birmingham, where the Academy is, and our own artists paint on site across the UK. A hand painted mural is not a printed paper. It is drawn for your exact wall, around every door, window and ceiling line, and it is one of a kind. To start, send photos of the wall and a few images of the mood you want.
Walk the streets behind the cliffs and you see tall Victorian and Edwardian villas, many divided into flats, with big hallways and generous dining rooms. A painted wall there fits right in, because period houses were always meant to carry decoration. Chinoiserie, with its branches, blossom and birds, has a long history in British houses and looks natural in a formal dining room with a high ceiling.
Elsewhere in town you find 1930s semis in Winton and Charminster, bungalows, and bright seafront flats. A mural in one of these can do what a wall of paint cannot. A child's room can become a sky with birds. A narrow hall can open into a garden. A holiday let can feel like a retreat, with a wall that looks like nowhere else.
There are three main directions. Chinoiserie is painted straight onto the wall or onto a gold leaf, silver leaf or grasscloth background. Floral and botanical work is large scale foliage and flowers with real depth, from one statement bloom to a whole room of garden. Scenes and figures take in landscapes, skies, classical figures and bold pieces for restaurants, bars, gyms and hotels.
Printed murals and printed chinoiserie paper come off a roll in set widths, with seams and a repeat. A hand painted piece has depth and brushwork a print cannot copy, and it can be changed as it develops. That is why the same pattern never turns up twice.
In homes, think of a dining room, stairwell, ceiling or child's bedroom. In a busy hall the surface can be sealed so the mural wipes clean. In hospitality, a restaurant, bar or hotel can use a mural to give a space its own identity, and logos or lettering can be worked into the design. Seaside businesses have a lot of competition for attention, and a painted wall holds it.
Our main page for murals explains the styles in more depth. For a similar effect with raised plaster, consider the feature walls page too.
First comes a brief. Send photos of the wall, rough sizes and any references. The design is agreed before painting, from sketches or images, and we survey the surface before pricing it, checking the substrate, cracks, damp and how the room is used. If a wall needs work first we say so.
Bournemouth is some way from our centres, so the painting is planned in blocks of days and the artist stays on the job. Dates are agreed once the design and price are signed off. Our hand painted murals page gives more detail about how we work on site.
Everything we install, we teach, and the training page lists every course at Birmingham, London and Manchester. Murals combine well with other finishes. A painted scene on a gold leaf ground is a classic, and a Venetian plaster wall beside a painted one gives a room real variety. See everything under decorative work.
Painting is only one way to decorate a Bournemouth wall. For a picture you can feel with your hand, there is bas relief in Bournemouth. Patterned panels live in sculptural plaster in Bournemouth, and tiny coloured pieces in mosaics in Bournemouth. A gold ground for your chinoiserie is gilding in Bournemouth. Deep colour in a dining room might be lacquered walls in Bournemouth, with cornice and coving in Bournemouth above. Garden features fall under artificial rock in Bournemouth, and a stone textured wall is travertino in Bournemouth. Our decorative finishes specialist in Bournemouth page brings it together, and you can compare Venetian plastering in Bournemouth.
Yes. Chinoiserie is often painted onto gold leaf, silver leaf or grasscloth, as well as straight onto the wall, and the leaf is laid by hand first.
It can be sealed so it wipes clean, which suits busy halls and stairwells in family homes.
A printed mural comes in set widths with seams and a repeat. Ours is painted for your wall, around the doors and windows, so it is one of a kind.
Yes. Restaurants, bars, gyms and hotels use murals for identity, and logos and lettering can be worked into the scene.
Ready to talk? Ring 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm), or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photos, measurements and the postcode. If you would like to see plaster colours as well, our sample board is the place to start.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Bournemouth 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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