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Where Artistry Begins
Hand painted, never printed, and drawn to the exact wall. Based in Birmingham, our artists paint chinoiserie, florals, skies and scenes for Cardiff homes and venues.
Murals in Cardiff do something wallpaper cannot, they follow the real room. We are based in Birmingham, and our own artists take their brushes wherever the wall is, Wales included. The same company supplies and teaches authentic Italian lime based Venetian plaster. A mural here might be a chinoiserie dining room, a flower filled stairwell or a sky across a bedroom ceiling. Begin with a photograph of the wall and a handful of pictures you love.
The city is full of rooms that ask for a painted wall. The tall bay fronted houses of Pontcanna, Penylan and Cathedral Road have generous dining rooms and drawing rooms, with high ceilings, deep alcoves and picture rails. In Llandaff and Roath, Victorian and Edwardian hallways and landings climb up tall stairwells where a printed roll would repeat awkwardly around the turn.
A hand painted mural is drawn around the doors, windows, alcoves and ceiling line you actually have. Printed murals and printed chinoiserie come off a roll in set widths with seams and a repeat. Ours can be changed as it develops, and it is one of a kind.
Chinoiserie was prized in British houses in the 1700s, and we paint it freehand, either directly on the plaster or over a ground of gold leaf, silver leaf or grasscloth. Large florals and botanicals suit a Cardiff garden suburb house with a window onto the garden, while landscapes and skies work for a child’s room or a landing. Our work on murals also reaches bars, cafés, gyms and hotels, where a big scene gives a venue its own identity. Logos and lettering can be worked into the painting.
Paint laid over a limewashed or marmorino wall takes on the gentle cloudiness beneath it, so the scene looks aged, a little like fresco. Hallways and shop floors take knocks, so there we seal the finished painting and it can be wiped down.
It starts with your photo of the wall, the dimensions, and whatever colours or references you have. A scaled sketch comes back to you, and you settle the palette on it before a brush is loaded. Before that we survey the wall, because a sound, prepared surface is what lets a painting last for years, and we will tell you plainly if the plaster needs repair first.
Cardiff is some way from our centres, so we book the painting as a run of consecutive days, and the same artists stay until the last leaf is finished. We fix dates after the sketch and the price have your agreement. Read more on our hand painted murals page.
We teach whatever we install, with courses at all three of our training centres, and the courses listed here give the detail. Painting sits well with plaster, and the decorative work page shows how the finishes fit together.
Some mural rooms want a gilded ground, which is where gilding in Cardiff comes in. A painted ceiling is framed by cornice and coving in Cardiff, while a sculpted detail from bas relief in Cardiff can sit beside it. For the same house, ideas include sculptural plaster in Cardiff, lacquered walls in Cardiff, mosaics in Cardiff, artificial rock in Cardiff and travertino in Cardiff. Our decorative finishes specialist in Cardiff and Venetian plastering in Cardiff pages describe the plaster backgrounds a mural can sit on.
Yes. Bring a photograph, a mood board, a sketch or just a feeling you want the room to have, and we turn it into a design for your wall, drawn to scale for approval.
Yes. A gilded background in gold or silver leaf, with blossom, branches and birds painted over it, is one of the most striking ways to finish a dining room or an alcove.
On a sound, properly prepared wall it lasts for years. Where a wall takes heavy wear we seal the mural so it can be wiped clean.
Yes. Restaurants, bars, hotels, offices and shops can have a mural with logos and lettering worked into the design.
Call 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm) or email sales@zavore.co.uk with a photo of the wall, its size and the postcode. For a plastered background, see the sample board.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Cardiff 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.
Providing luxury finishes for the most prestigious addresses in the world
Venetian plaster, limewash, microcement, tadelakt, metallics, sculptural plaster and gold leaf, supplied and installed by our own team, with Venetian plaster taught at our Birmingham studio.
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