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Where Artistry Begins
Chinoiserie blossom, large florals, skies and scenes, painted by hand onto your own wall and drawn around its doors, windows and alcoves.
Murals in Leeds, painted by hand straight onto your wall, turn a plain room into the one people remember. Zavoré is based in Birmingham, where our Academy is, and our own artisans work across the UK, painting each mural for the space it fills.
Send a photo of the wall with its size and any ideas, colours or images you have in mind. That is all we need to begin the conversation.
Yorkshire has a long tradition of grand rooms with painted decoration. Nostell, a National Trust house in the county, still has hand painted Chinese wallpaper hung in 1771, the kind of blossom, branch and bird scene that chinoiserie murals follow today. Closer to the city, large stone houses were built by wool and industrial families who liked their drawing rooms to impress.
Those houses and their successors are all over Leeds. The tall hallways and landings of villas in Headingley, Roundhay and Moortown have long, plain walls that would suit a climbing branch or a landscape. A mural can be drawn to climb a staircase, which a printed paper cannot do.
Most chinoiserie wallpaper today is printed. We paint it by hand, on the wall itself or on gold leaf, silver leaf or grasscloth, so branches climb around your doors and windows instead of repeating off a roll. A gilded background behind blossom is a striking choice for an alcove or a dining room.
Large florals suit a dining room or a hallway, and a sky or a landscape can lift a basement kitchen with little natural light. For children, a mural can follow a bedroom wall around the window and the bed. See the main murals page for more styles.
The city has a busy evening scene, with bars and restaurants in converted warehouses by the river and in the arcades of the centre. A hand painted scene gives a venue its own identity, and a logo or lettering can be painted into it. Offices, reception areas and shops commission them for the same reason.
Where a wall gets heavy wear, such as a busy hallway or a commercial space, the finished mural is sealed so it can be wiped clean. A mural painted on a sound, properly prepared wall lasts for years.
First comes the brief, then a sketch drawn to the scale of your wall. We 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. If you are planning a plastered wall as well, we can do both, and a mural over limewash or marmorino picks up the soft movement beneath it.
Leeds is some way from Birmingham, so a larger mural is planned in blocks of days so the artist stays on the job. Dates are agreed once the design and price are signed off. Our hand painted murals page explains the work on site.
Painting is also something you can learn. The courses run at our training centres in Birmingham, London and Manchester, and the decorative work page shows how a mural fits with our other crafts.
A mural has the most depth when the wall behind it is right. Venetian plastering in Leeds gives a polished backdrop, while limewash gives a softer, aged one. Our decorative finishes specialist in Leeds page covers working across a whole house.
Gold is a natural partner, so see gilding in Leeds for gilded backgrounds. If you want the scene raised from the surface instead of painted, bas relief in Leeds is the sculpted answer, and sculptural plaster in Leeds offers repeating forms.
Frames for a painted wall can come from cornice and coving in Leeds. For floors and splashbacks look at mosaics in Leeds, and for glossy walls in the same room lacquered walls in Leeds. Garden rooms and stone effects are covered under artificial rock in Leeds and travertino in Leeds.
Yes. Every mural is designed for the client. 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.
Printed paper comes off a roll in set widths, with seams and a repeat. A hand painted mural is drawn to your exact wall, around doors, windows and alcoves, and is one of a kind.
Yes, that is one of the places a mural works so well, because the design can climb with the stairs. Send photos and the height and we will advise on access.
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 feature wall or an alcove.
Call 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm) or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photos of the wall, the size and the postcode. If a plaster background interests you, 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 Leeds 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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