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Restaurant wall art, hand-painted for the first site and the tenth

iHomeArt paints original restaurant wall art to order for restaurant groups, bars, hotel restaurants and café chains, from the single canvas guests photograph to every wall of a new opening. Nothing is printed or held in stock, so the paintings that define your concept can be painted again, or varied into new canvases, for the second site and the tenth.

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Garden luncheon table with child and flowers, IA#092, hung in a room
IA#092
Burnt orange ember trail on charcoal, AA#764, hung in a room
AA#764
Sculpted gold and pewter peony on black, TA#554, hung in a room
TA#554

Restaurant wall art at a glance

  • Site 2, 3, 10The concept's paintings re-ordered, varied or recoloured for each new room
  • Dinner lightPalettes, contrast and texture chosen to read at evening service and on dark walls
  • Any wallBanquette runs, booths and back-bar walls, each canvas painted to its measurements
  • Your storyFounder, home town, best-loved dish or logo painted from your own image
  • One dateThe quote states when the whole order arrives, before you commit to it
Medium
Acrylic on canvas as standard; oil paint on request. Hand-painted, never printed
Size
Any size, including oversized single canvases and multi-panel sets
Finish
Rolled, stretched ready to hang, or framed in gold, silver, black, white or wood; 3D plaster and deep relief ship stretched or framed
Approval
Photos or video at each stage; the next stage starts only after you approve; the final photograph is approved before dispatch
Lead time
About 10 days to paint, then 5–7 days by DHL, FedEx or UPS express. Large orders get their own date in the quote
Minimum order
One piece; volume pricing from 10
Price
Priced for your sizes, finishes and quantity; your quote usually arrives within one business day
Shipping
Arranged for you: we find the best route for your address and confirm the cost with you before dispatch, as shipping is quoted separately
Payment
50% upfront against a proforma invoice; 50% once you approve the final photograph, before shipping
Peace of mind
You approve every finished piece from a photo before it ships. If anything arrives damaged, we take it up with the carrier and work out a solution with you

Which restaurant wall art tells your concept's story?

Start from what the menu is about, its cuisine, its place or its era, and choose subjects that say it before the first plate arrives.

Guests read the walls while they wait for a table, so good art for restaurants does part of the sign's work. Choose the subject first and the manner second: one laid table, painted photoreal, loose or graphic, tells three different stories about the meal. Every restaurant and bar and dining-room work is a starting point.

How do restaurant groups keep one look across every site?

Keep a short house list of the reference codes that define the concept, and give each new site those works re-ordered, varied or recoloured: recognisably yours, without hanging the flagship's canvases twice.

Rollouts drift two ways: identical prints in every branch, so the concept looks like a chain, or a fourth site dressed from whatever a new supplier had. Here every canvas is painted when it is ordered and a reference code never sells out, so the first room's paintings stay available for the tenth. Choose one of three routes wall by wall.

One piece guests photograph, or a gallery wall?

White and coral flowers in a blue vase, TA#094, hung in a room
TA#094 White and coral flowers in a blue vase

Most dining rooms want one of each: a single hero canvas every table can see and, if the concept allows, one salon wall of mixed sizes that feels collected over years.

The hero hangs where the eye lands: facing the door, behind the host stand or on the end wall. Give it real size, often 120 to 180 cm across, its own light and a subject worth photographing, and keep the rest quieter.

The salon wall suits bistros, wine bars and members' bars: portraits, still lifes and small landscapes hung frame to frame. It looks collected only if one thing holds it together, such as a frame colour, a palette or a subject. Lay it out in paper templates and send the plan; finishes and frames can differ piece by piece. Figurative and animal works mix well with still lifes here.

Which bar wall art reads in dim light and on dark walls?

Two zebras nose to nose in monochrome and color, CA#054, hung in a room
CA#054 Two zebras nose to nose in monochrome and color
White peony with amber center on dark teal, TA#1217, hung in a room
TA#1217 White peony with amber center on dark teal

Warm palettes with strong contrast and some raised texture: under low, warm lamps pale blues and greys turn muddy while ochre, red, gold and cream glow.

Judge a candidate in evening service light, not at noon.

  • Contrast before colour. In low light the eye reads light against dark before hue: a white peony on black carries across the room, a soft grey-blue abstract fades.
  • Dark walls need a decision. On navy, bottle green or oxblood, a dark-ground painting sinks unless a gold or white frame or a bright subject lifts it; a pale canvas becomes the brightest thing in the room, right for the hero, too much everywhere.
  • Texture and metal leaf. Knife work, plaster relief and gold leaf throw small highlights under spotlights and candles.

To match the room, send the wall paint code and a phone photo taken at service lighting, and compare the result on the stage photographs. Start from black, gold and cosy, warm works, or the textured collection.

What size art over a banquette, a booth or the bar?

Size each piece to its wall rather than to a catalogue list: send the width and the clear height above the upholstery or the back-bar, and each canvas is painted to fit.

WallHow it hangsA typical canvas
Banquette runLower edge 20–30 cm above the backrest, clear of heads; about two-thirds of the run, or a series between the wall lights76 × 203 cm (30 × 80 in), or three at 76 × 76 cm (30 × 30 in)
BoothsOne piece per booth, centred on the table61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in) to 81 × 61 cm (32 × 24 in)
Behind the barAbove the bottle shelves; long, low formats suit it61 × 153 cm (24 × 60 in) or wider
Facing the doorThe hero, at eye level from the entrance, with its own light152 × 102 cm (60 × 40 in) and up
Private diningOne large piece on the end wall, seen from every seat122 × 91 cm (48 × 36 in)

Many catalogue works are upright, and banquettes are long and low: the Resize route redraws any work wide rather than cropping it, and you approve it at the first stage. See panoramic works as painted, or oversized art painted to size for a hero above two metres.

Can our founder, home town or logo become restaurant artwork?

Yes: send the image and a painter turns it into an original canvas, from a founder's old photograph to a pattern from your floor tiles.

Ideas that work on a dining-room wall:

  • The founder, or the grandmother whose recipes the menu keeps.
  • The town, market, vineyard or fishing harbour the cuisine comes from.
  • The best-loved dish or cocktail as a still life.
  • A pattern from the menu, the tiles or the wallpaper, enlarged into an abstract.
  • The logo worked into a painting, so it reads as art first.

Once painted, the piece can be painted again for each new site or varied so every branch has its own version. Start at paintings from your own image, with photographs you own or have permission to use.

What drives the cost of art for a restaurant rollout?

Canvas area, texture, finish and quantity; each piece is priced on its own line, usually within one business day, which shows where each site's budget goes.

Size
The canvas area sets most of the price, so a hero and a banquette series cost very differently in one style.
Texture
Plaster relief and heavy knife work take more material and drying time than smooth brushwork.
Finish
Rolling costs least and ships fastest; a framer in each city then stretches or frames the canvas. Stretched arrives ready to hang without a frame. Framed, in a gold, silver, black, white or wooden frame, comes boxed with hooks and is the bulkiest to ship.
Quantity
A single canvas is a normal order; the volume tier counts every site in the same order.
Shipping
Quoted per delivery address, with the cost confirmed before anything leaves.

A common split: framed for the hero, which must be on the wall the day the doors open, and rolled for the series, which a local framer stretches while the fit-out finishes. Heavy relief and deep knife texture would split if rolled, so they travel stretched or framed, unless you accept a thinner texture that can go in a tube.

Will restaurant wall art arrive before an opening date that won't move?

Yes, when the order goes in once the walls are measured: each piece takes about 10 days to paint and 5–7 days by DHL, FedEx or UPS express, and the quote states one delivery date for the whole order.

Plan back from the soft launch, not the opening night: the art should be up for the friends-and-family dinners, when the room is first photographed. Larger orders may go by air or sea freight, and the quote says which.

  1. Walls measuredRenders or site photos, each wall's size, the opening date and the address.
  2. Quote and dateA price per piece and one delivery date. Painting begins once you accept and settle 50% of the proforma invoice.
  3. Approve as it is paintedStage-by-stage photos or video; the painter continues once you say yes, so quick replies keep the date safe.
  4. Final photographsYou approve each finished canvas from a photograph and pay the remaining 50%; then it is packed.
  5. Express to siteTo the restaurant, the contractor or the framer, cost agreed before dispatch, with tracking. Aim to land a week before the soft launch.

Can restaurant wall art change with the seasons?

Burnt orange sunset on a deep blue sea, IA#1080, hung in a room
IA#1080 Burnt orange sunset on a deep blue sea

Yes: change the hero and two or three key pieces rather than the whole room, and the dining room feels new for a new menu or season without a refit.

A warm sunset for winter, a cool coast or garden for the terrace months, a new hero for a new chef. A refresh can be one canvas, painted to the size of the one it replaces so the fixings stay put.

Every canvas is bought outright, so the outgoing ones move to the private dining room or the next site to open, and over a few seasons a group builds a collection to rotate between branches.

What café wall art works for coffee chains and bakeries?

Terracotta guitar vase and palm leaf still life, AA#553, hung in a room
AA#553 Terracotta guitar vase and palm leaf still life
Sculpted scarlet roses on black plaster, TA#023, hung in a room
TA#023 Sculpted scarlet roses on black plaster

Bright, daylight-friendly pieces in the brand's own colours, two or three per shop, with one strong canvas near the counter that people photograph while they queue.

Cafés, bakeries and coffee chains open small sites often, so the house list works here too, with a few differences.

  • Daylight. Window-lit rooms suit colourful florals, fruit and sunny landscapes where a bar needs deep grounds: see uplifting and colourful works.
  • Brand colours. Send the cup or the packaging rather than a screen colour, and a catalogue work is recoloured to match.
  • Smaller walls. 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in) to 91 × 61 cm (36 × 24 in) suits most cafés; framed in white or wood, it goes up on opening morning.
  • The counter. The menu board already competes behind the till, so give the art its own wall beside it.

One wine-bar concept, three openings

An illustrative schedule built from catalogue works, not a client project. Every piece would be painted to the size of its wall.

  1. Flagship: the hero, facing the door
    Wine bottle, grapes and apples on a table; framed in gold; 1 piece122 × 81 cm (48 × 32 in)
  2. Flagship: three squares over the banquette
    A pear on a stone ledge, dried flowers on a mustard cloth, fish in hanging market bags; stretched; 3 pieces76 × 76 cm (30 × 30 in)
  3. Site 2: the hero, varied
    A new still life from the flagship's bottle and grapes, recoloured to the site's green joinery; framed in gold; 1 piece122 × 81 cm (48 × 32 in)
  4. Site 2: new canvases in the same manner
    White calla lilies, peonies and poppies on dark grounds, painted square to match the run; stretched; 3 pieces76 × 76 cm (30 × 30 in)
  5. Site 3, a smaller bar: two codes re-ordered
    The pear and the dried flowers again, smaller; rolled for the local framer; 2 pieces61 × 61 cm (24 × 24 in)
  6. Total 10 original canvases across three sites, quoted together to reach the 10-piece volume tier, with a date for each opening. Every code is a real catalogue work; the sites, quantities and sizes are illustrative.

Restaurant and bar art: what operators ask before ordering

Original paintings or prints: which is better for restaurant walls?

For the walls guests look at, originals: in low light, brushwork and texture are what people see. A hand-painted original can also be resized for an awkward wall, recoloured to the room and painted again for the next site. Every piece we supply is painted by hand, acrylic on canvas as standard and oil if you ask; nothing is printed.

Can paintings hang near an open kitchen, a coffee machine or the bar sink?

Keep canvases out of reach of steam, grease and splashes: not directly over the pass, the espresso machine or the glass washer. If a piece has to hang close, ask your local framer to glaze it, and keep it above tray height where staff will not brush it.

How should art be hung securely in a busy restaurant or bar?

Framed pieces arrive with hooks, and stretched canvases hang from their stretcher bars, which is fine high on a wall. Where guests can reach a painting, over a banquette or in a booth, ask your installer for security fixings that lock it to the wall, so it cannot be lifted off or knocked crooked mid-service.

Can you paint a mural-sized piece instead of painting on the wall itself?

Yes, on canvas: one very large canvas, or a run of canvases hung edge to edge. It is painted while the fit-out goes on, approved in photographs before it ships, and if the restaurant ever moves, the art moves with you.

Can our interior designer or fit-out contractor place the order?

Yes. The designer or FF&E buyer can brief the walls, approve the stage photographs and take the delivery. Pieces can go to the site, the contractor's store or a local framer. See how we work with FF&E and procurement agents.

Do you supply the restaurants and bars inside a hotel?

Yes. A hotel's restaurant, bar and lounge can be ordered with the bedrooms or on their own, usually in a moodier palette than the rooms upstairs. See boutique and independent hotels and hotel guest-room programmes.

What if a painting arrives damaged a week before opening?

Damage in transit is uncommon: with careful packing and trusted carriers, our return rate stays under 0.01%. Should a box arrive damaged, send us photos that day; we handle the carrier claim and agree the remedy with you, a replacement or a refund for instance. A week of margin before the soft launch leaves room to put it right.

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Send us the walls of your next opening

Message us a photo or render of the room, the wall sizes, the concept in a line and the opening date. Within one business day you get each piece priced and dated, plus a catalogue shortlist if you ask for one.

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