Painted House
Sheet 1The FarmhouseTwo-Colour LinocutTidy the Kerb on

Every window where you left it

One photograph of your home, painted and then counted

The engine paints the house in one of twelve styles. Then the proof counts its windows, doors, gables and storeys in your photograph and in the painting, and names any count that differs, so you can see the house came through before you pay.

Paint My HouseSee The Styles
A white clapboard farmhouse with green shutters and a four-column porch, photographed from the street with two wheelie bins and a telephone wire in front
A As photographed, bins and wires and all
The same farmhouse cut as a two-colour linocut in black and green, with the bins and the wire left out
B As painted, Two-Colour Linocut
The count, A against BEvery count matched. Counted by hand for this page; on your proof the check counts.
CountPhotographPainting
Windows1010Matched
Doors11Matched
Gables22Matched
Storeys22Matched
Chimneys11Matched
Porch columns44Matched

Why we count

A house with the wrong windows is another house

The engine sometimes moves a window, drops a chimney or adds a pane. That is why the proof counts six things in both pictures: windows, doors, gables, storeys, chimneys and porch columns. Equal numbers match; anything else is named on the proof.

A count that differs earns a free repaint from the same photograph, once. If the check cannot run, the proof says so and you compare the two by eye. A count is an aid to your eye, never a promise the painting is exact.

  • Nobody in frame
  • No words painted
  • No invented house number
  • Nothing added to the building

Sheet 2 · The studio

Send one photograph

From the street, the whole front in frame, nobody in it. Pick a style; the engine paints it upright and wide in about ninety seconds, and the proof opens with the count.

Choose the style

The Architect

The Watercolourist

The Printmaker

The Seasons

Ink Elevation

Your house as the architect drew it

Four passes on the house. A pass paints your photograph twice: upright and wide. Your photograph is kept beside the render, at proof size, so the two can be counted and repainted. Write to us and we delete both.

A white clapboard farmhouse with green shutters and a four-column porch, cut as a two-colour linocut in black and greenThe same farmhouse as an ordinary photograph from the street, with two wheelie bins and a telephone wire in front

Linocut in Two Colours

A test house we generated for this page. Yours replaces it.

Sheet 3 · The schedule

Twelve styles in four sets

Every style below was painted from the same two test houses, which we generated so no real address is shown. Read across a row for the medium, down the pictures for the house staying itself.

The Architect

The house as it was drawn before it was built: technical pen on drafting film, a copperplate etched and printed by hand, and a cyanotype sun print.

  1. No.01Ink ElevationTechnical pen on drafting film, hatching, ruled ground lineYour house as the architect drew itThe Farmhouse painted as Ink ElevationThe Terrace painted as Ink Elevation
  2. No.02Copperplate EtchingBitten line, drypoint burr, plate tone, wiped highlightsYour house etched and printed by handThe Farmhouse painted as Copperplate EtchingThe Terrace painted as Copperplate Etching
  3. No.03CyanotypeSun print, Prussian blue ground, white line, brushed edgesYour house as a sun-printed blueprintThe Farmhouse painted as CyanotypeThe Terrace painted as Cyanotype

The Watercolourist

The classic house portrait, three ways: pen and wash, storybook gouache, and an oil sketch made on the pavement opposite.

  1. No.04Watercolour and InkLoose pen line, wet washes, white paper left as lightYour house in pen and washThe Farmhouse painted as Watercolour and InkThe Terrace painted as Watercolour and Ink
  2. No.05Gouache StorybookMid-century picture-book gouache, flat shapes, warm lightYour house in a picture bookThe Farmhouse painted as Gouache StorybookThe Terrace painted as Gouache Storybook
  3. No.06Plein Air OilOil sketch on board, broken colour, low sunYour house painted from across the streetThe Farmhouse painted as Plein Air OilThe Terrace painted as Plein Air Oil

The Printmaker

Carved, cut and pulled: a shin-hanga woodblock in the manner of Kawase Hasui, a two-colour linocut, and a 1962 screenprint.

  1. No.07Woodblock at First SnowShin-hanga woodblock, falling snow, lit windowsYour house under the first snowThe Farmhouse painted as Woodblock at First SnowThe Terrace painted as Woodblock at First Snow
  2. No.08Two-Colour LinocutCarved line, two inks, the white of the paperYour house carved in two coloursThe Farmhouse painted as Two-Colour LinocutThe Terrace painted as Two-Colour Linocut
  3. No.09Screenprint 1962Serigraph, flat colour fields, slight misregistrationYour house as a 1962 screenprintThe Farmhouse painted as Screenprint 1962The Terrace painted as Screenprint 1962

The Seasons

The same house in the light of one day of the year: the first snow at dusk, an October afternoon, a spring morning under blossom.

  1. No.10First Snow at DuskOil nocturne, blue dusk, lamplit windows, falling snowYour house with every window litThe Farmhouse painted as First Snow at DuskThe Terrace painted as First Snow at Dusk
  2. No.11October LaneGouache, maples turning, low gold sunYour house in October lightThe Farmhouse painted as October LaneThe Terrace painted as October Lane
  3. No.12Blossom MorningSoft pastel on blue-grey paper, cherry blossom, early lightYour house on a spring morningThe Farmhouse painted as Blossom MorningThe Terrace painted as Blossom Morning
A red-brick Victorian terrace painted at dusk under the first snow, every window lit amber

The winter set

First Snow at Dusk

Oil nocturne, blue dusk, lamplit windows, falling snow

A house in its first snow with the lamps on is the painting people give at the end of a year in a new place. The count runs on it the same way: a lit window is still one window.

See The Winter Set

Sheet 4 · Sizes

Paper to forty by sixty

Fine-art paper, cotton rag, stretched canvas and float-framed canvas, printed by Prodigi. The master is rebuilt at print resolution after you pay, so the print is sharper than the proof.

For estate agents

A closing gift that is their house

Paint the listing photograph, ship it to the buyers’ new address, and check the count before you pay. No account and no form: the same studio and the same proof.

Send It To Them