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Where Artistry Begins
Hand painted, never printed. Chinoiserie, florals, skies and scenes drawn for one Cambridge wall, from a Victorian hallway to a restaurant.
Murals in Cambridge can be as quiet as a branch of blossom or as bold as a whole garden. Zavoré paints murals by hand directly onto your wall, designed for that space alone. Our nearest showroom and training centre in London is open by appointment. To begin, send a photo of the wall, its size and the ideas, colours or images you have in mind.
Cambridge is a city of gardens, meadows and water, from Jesus Green and Midsummer Common to the river meadows beyond Grantchester. Painted scenes of willows, reeds and open sky belong here as naturally as they would in few other places.
Many of the city's rooms are also modest in size. Terraced houses in Petersfield and Romsey have small dining rooms and narrow halls, where a mural can open the wall up. A hand painted sky on a ceiling makes a low room feel taller.
Larger Victorian and Edwardian houses around Chesterton Road and Hills Road have wide dining rooms that suit chinoiserie. This is the European taste for Chinese style, most famous as hand painted wallpaper of blossom, branches and birds, which British country houses prized in the 1700s. Most chinoiserie today is printed. Ours is painted straight onto your wall, or onto gold leaf, silver leaf or grasscloth.
At home, feature walls, dining rooms, hallways, stairwells, ceilings and children's rooms all take a mural well. Because it is drawn to your exact wall, the branches climb around your doors, windows, alcoves and ceiling line rather than repeating off a roll.
In hospitality, Cambridge restaurants, bars, cafes and hotels use murals to give a space its own identity, with branding painted into the scene. Offices and reception areas can do the same. Our murals page explains the styles we paint.
Where a wall is busy, such as a hallway or a commercial space, the finished mural can be sealed so it can be wiped clean.
First comes the brief, with a photo of the wall, its size and your ideas. Next we sketch the mural to the scale of your wall and agree the colours with you before any paint goes on. Then the wall is prepared and the mural is painted by hand in your space. Before pricing we check the wall's surface, damp and condition, and we say plainly if it needs work first.
Cambridge is some way from our centres, so the work is planned in blocks of days and the team stays on the job. Dates are agreed once the design and price are signed off. The service is described on our hand painted murals page.
For murals there is no sample board to order. Start by sending photos of the wall and your ideas.
A mural painted over a limewash or marmorino background picks up the soft movement of the plaster underneath, which gives the painting an aged, fresco like depth. If you are planning a plastered wall and a mural together, we can do both.
Our courses at the training centres in Birmingham, London and Manchester teach the plaster side. See also our decorative work for everything else we do.
A painted wall rarely stands alone. A gold ground for chinoiserie is covered under gilding in Cambridge, and painted ceilings meet cornice and coving in Cambridge at the edge. A sculpted alternative is bas relief in Cambridge, while sculptural plaster in Cambridge gives pattern without paint. For small areas of colour, see mosaics in Cambridge. Deeper gloss colour appears under lacquered walls in Cambridge, with outdoor rock under artificial rock in Cambridge and stone texture under travertino in Cambridge. Our decorative finishes specialist in Cambridge page covers the whole house, and Venetian plastering in Cambridge is the polished plaster option next door.
Always by hand. A printed mural comes off a roll in set widths with seams and a repeat. A hand painted mural is drawn to your exact wall, with depth and brushwork a print cannot copy.
Yes. Chinoiserie can be painted straight onto the wall or onto a gold leaf, silver leaf or grasscloth background, drawn to your room.
Where a wall needs it, such as a busy hallway or a commercial space, the finished mural is sealed so it can be wiped clean.
Yes. We sketch the mural to the scale of your wall and agree the colours with you before any paint goes on.
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. If a plaster background is part of the plan, you can order a sample board too.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Cambridge 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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