House Portraits — Your Home, Hand-Painted From a Photograph

A house portrait is a portrait: the building has proportions the owner knows by heart, and getting the roofline, the window spacing and the door right matters more than any flourish. We draw the architecture from your photograph, measuring the façade at the sketch stage, and only then decide the light, the season and how much garden to include.

What people commission

The family home before it is sold. The first house. A farm that is changing hands after three generations. A grandparent’s house that has already gone. A shopfront or a restaurant, for the wall behind the till. Estate agents and builders order them as closing gifts — the keys, and a painting of the house.

What gets left out

Parked cars, bins, satellite dishes, overhead cables and the neighbour’s extension are routinely removed; they are in the photograph but not in the memory. What stays is whatever you tell us matters: the dog on the step, the swing, the flag, the rose that grew over the porch. If a tree has since come down, or the door used to be a different colour, we can paint the house as it was.

Light and season

The most-requested version is dusk with the windows lit — it turns a building into a home. A summer photo can be painted in autumn colour, or under snow. Tell us the season the house means to you.

Mediums and sizes

A landscape canvas suits most buildings. Acrylic is the default; oil when a closing date is close; watercolour gives a lighter, more architectural look on paper and ships flat. Prices are set by size, detail level and medium, and trade buyers — agents, designers, framers — order from one piece — a single closing gift, or a set for a development.