Bespoke & Custom Finishes

One-offs: made on site, to a brief, and not available anywhere else.

One-offs

Most of what we do has a name and a page. This is for the work that does not: a piece made to a brief, on site, by hand, that exists once.

What it tends to be

A wall is only the most obvious surface. We have finished bar tops, a wine rack island, garden spheres, shelving, kitchen units, a domed ceiling and a shop sign. If it will take a plaster and it will hold still, it is usually possible.

The other half of it is effect rather than object — a rust finish, a tie-dye foil, a stencilled motif cut into the plaster, a colour mixed to match something you already own.

The kind of thing this covers

Stencilling and graphic work

Motifs, logos and pattern worked into the plaster rather than painted onto it.

Curves and columns

Domes, curved walls, columns and shaped features.

Banding and blockwork

Ashlar and block effects cut into the surface.

Metallic and foil

Transfer foil and real metal laid on and worked by hand.

Colour development

Mixed to a sample rather than chosen from a chart.

Objects as well as walls

Bar tops, islands, spheres, shelving, furniture and signage.

Our Process

1. The brief

Sometimes a picture, sometimes a colour, sometimes just an idea of the feeling wanted. Bespoke work starts looser than a standard finish and that is fine.

2. Samples

Nothing bespoke gets committed to a wall without a board first. It is the only way to find out whether the idea in someone's head survives contact with the material.