Art for serviced apartments and aparthotels, one pack per unit type

A hotel guest spends a night or two under one painting above the bed. An extended-stay guest cooks, works and has friends round for weeks, and sees the walls from the sofa and the table as much as from the pillow: extended-stay hotel art has to stand up to that.

• Subjects worth living with. A path into a landscape, flowers on a table, the coast at the end of the road: pictures that still hold something in the third week. See landscapes, still lifes and florals.
• A little warmth. Ochre, sage, faded blue, a terracotta cushion picked up in the canvas: browse the cosy and warm works.
• Mixed shapes. A panoramic over the sofa, a square above the bed and a slim vertical by the door look chosen; three identical rectangles look issued.

For long stays, keep the bedroom calm and put the bold piece in the living room, where a guest can choose to look at it.

Inside a building, repeat. Each guest only ever sees their own unit, and every canvas is painted by hand, so fifty studios with the same two designs never feel like a corridor of prints. Repeating keeps ordering simple and replacements easy. Where corporate guests move between units, the Vary route paints related versions of one design from floor to floor.

Between buildings, change. Keep the pack structure, the sizes, the frame and three or four brand colours, and change the subjects: streets and skylines for a city-centre building, the sea for one by the water, gardens for a quiet residential street. Browse cityscapes and seascapes. Brand colours carry across through the Recolour route, which paints any catalogue design in your palette.

A piece of the neighbourhood. The street outside, the river or the view from the roof, painted from your own photograph, gives a building something no competitor has. See paintings from your own image.

Each unit is sold through a dozen photographs, most of them wide shots of the living room and the bed. Art earns its place in them when it is:

• Big enough for the wide shot. A canvas that looks right in person shrinks to a stamp in a wide-angle photograph. Go to about two-thirds of the sofa's length or the headboard's width.
• Unglazed. Stretched and framed canvases hang without glass, so nothing reflects the window or the lamps.
• Sharing one colour with the room. A colour that runs from the painting into a cushion ties the picture together; a canvas matching the sofa exactly vanishes into it.
• Good up close. Knife-laid paint gives the detail shots a texture no print has: see the textured and Impressionist works.

And the listing can say, truthfully, that the art is hand-painted. Send a listing photo of a unit as it stands, and we suggest sizes and works for it.

Pieces

The biggest lever: dropping the hallway piece in a 60-unit building takes 60 canvases off the order.

Size

Cost rises with canvas area. Spend it on the sofa wall, which carries the room and the photographs.

Surface

Flat brushwork costs less than thick palette-knife paint or plaster relief.

Volume

Pricing improves from 10 pieces, counted across every unit in the order.

One order can mix finishes. Thick texture and plaster relief travel stretched or framed only, unless we agree a thinner texture that can roll. Shipping is quoted separately and confirmed with you before each delivery leaves.

Once the first pack is approved, we write it up as a pack sheet, position by position, with the colour references for anything recoloured. You file it with the building's FF&E records; we keep it with your order.

• The next building. Send the sheet, the unit counts and the opening date. Keep the pack for a sister building, or keep sizes and frames and change the subjects.
• One canvas in one unit. A suitcase goes through the sofa-wall piece in unit 4.12: order that piece by code and size and it is painted to match the pack.
• Spares in the store. Large buildings often add two or three spares of each design to the first order, so a damaged piece is swapped the same day.
• A refresh. After a few years, recolour the collection and keep the sizes, so the hooks already in the walls still fit.

A re-order is painted fresh by hand, a close sibling rather than an exact copy; in a unit, nobody sees the two side by side.

Tell us how you number the units and name the walls, and we mark each canvas to match, for example “4.12 · sofa wall”. The site team can check a delivery against the building plan before anything is unwrapped.

• One hanging rule. Agree it once, say the centre of every piece 150 cm above the floor, and print it on the pack sheet so every unit is hung alike.
• Fixings. Framed pieces come with hooks; stretched canvases hang from their wooden stretcher bars on ordinary picture hooks.
• Rolled canvases see the framer first. Ask the framer to copy each label onto the new stretcher.

If the opening is close, say so in the first message: rolled canvases and smaller batches are the quickest route, and we tell you plainly what can arrive in time.

A host or property manager running eight, thirty or a hundred short-term rental and holiday-let flats rarely has identical units. The approach still works, flat by flat:

• From the listing photos. Send them and we shortlist artwork for apartments of that size and layout, sized to its sofa and bed. Add flats as you sign them; each pack joins the same sheet.
• One look. Fix one frame finish and three or four colours across the portfolio.
• Owners in the loop. If you manage flats for their owners, the stage photos can go straight to the owner for approval.
• Counted together. Three pieces for each of four flats is twelve, past the point where volume pricing starts.

Every piece is sold outright, so the art stays with the flat. Staging stock that moves between properties is covered for home stagers, long-let blocks with amenity floors under build-to-rent, and one piece per hotel key under hotel guest-room programmes.