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Where Artistry Begins
Hand painted murals drawn to your exact wall, around its doors, windows and alcoves. Chinoiserie, florals, skies and scenes, painted by our own artists.
We are based in Birmingham, and our artists travel north to paint murals in Edinburgh. A mural is a painting made straight onto your wall, drawn for that room and no other. If a wall in your flat or house feels blank, send a photo and a few ideas, and we will come back with a sketch to scale before a brush is loaded.
Edinburgh homes are full of walls with a story to tell. A Georgian drawing room in the New Town has tall plain panels between its windows. A Victorian tenement flat in Marchmont or Bruntsfield has a long hallway and deep bay windows. Both reward a painting made to measure, because a printed paper arrives in strips with seams and a repeat, while a painted mural wraps itself around every door, window and alcove.
Chinoiserie suits the city's formal rooms. Painted Chinese papers were prized in British houses in the 1700s, the same century the New Town was planned. Blossom, branches and birds can sit straight on the plaster, or on gold leaf, silver leaf or grasscloth, climbing around your windows instead of repeating off a roll.
In a smaller tenement flat a painted sky across the ceiling, or a garden down a narrow hall, can do the opposite of what you expect. The room feels larger.
In a home the choice is wide. Dining rooms, stairwells, ceilings and children's bedrooms all take a mural, and in a hall that gets heavy use the finished painting can be sealed so it wipes clean. Many Edinburgh flats share a common stair, so the owner should confirm that stair is theirs to decorate before planning.
Business interiors in the city centre, Leith and Stockbridge suit murals too. A restaurant, bar, cafe, hotel, office or shop can carry a scene with its branding painted into it. Our main murals page shows the styles we paint, from chinoiserie to florals and large scale scenes.
Most conversations begin with a photograph. Send the wall, its size, and whatever has caught your eye, a mood board, a page torn from a book, a colour you cannot stop thinking about. From that we draw the mural to your wall's scale, and the colours are settled with you while the work is still on paper.
Painting then happens in your room. We prepare the wall, paint by hand, and seal the finished piece where wear demands it. Before pricing we survey the surface, and if it needs repair first we tell you directly rather than painting over a problem.
Because Edinburgh is a long way from Birmingham, we plan the painting in blocks of days so the team stays put until it is finished. We fix those days only after you have signed off the design and the price. The page on hand painted murals describes the service in more detail.
Paint over gold leaf is hard to beat on an alcove or a feature wall. A mural can also sit on a marmorino ground, where the soft movement of the plaster shows through the paint and gives it a look close to old fresco.
Everything we install, we teach, and the courses are listed on our training page. The whole range of work is on decorative work, and if plaster is part of your scheme the sample board shows the colours.
A painted wall seldom works alone. Metal leaf grounds come under gilding in Edinburgh, and where a painting needs real depth, bas relief in Edinburgh carves the scene out of the plaster. Sculptural plaster in Edinburgh adds architectural rhythm, and cornice and coving in Edinburgh frames the ceiling above.
Smaller touches turn up in lacquered walls in Edinburgh, mosaics in Edinburgh, artificial rock in Edinburgh and travertino in Edinburgh. All of it is gathered under our decorative finishes specialist in Edinburgh page, and Venetian plastering in Edinburgh is the route for a polished lime wall.
Often yes, on a sound, prepared wall. A listed building may need consent first, so the owner should check with the council.
Not quite. A mural is any painting made directly on a wall or ceiling. A fresco is painted into fresh lime plaster, so the colour becomes part of the wall.
Yes. A gilded ground in gold or silver leaf, with branches and birds painted over it, makes a rich feature wall or alcove.
Yes. Bars, restaurants, hotels, offices and shops can have a scene with lettering and logos worked into the design.
Painted onto a sound, properly prepared wall, a mural lasts for years. Walls that take heavy wear are sealed so they can be cleaned.
To start a mural, ring 07592 929191 from Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm, or write to sales@zavore.co.uk with a photo of the wall, rough measurements and the postcode.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Edinburgh 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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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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