Reception and lobby
The highest value wall in the building, because everyone sees it and it sets the tone before anyone speaks.
Offices and headquarters
Murals for
offices and
headquarters
Lobbies, open floors, stairwells, meeting rooms and building exteriors, painted around a working office so nobody loses a desk.
Why companies paint
A building
people can
describe
An office mural does three things a printed graphic cannot.
It gives a space an identity that belongs to one company rather than one landlord. It gives people a reason to photograph the room, which quietly does recruiting work every time somebody posts from the office. And it signals commitment, because a painted wall says somebody spent two weeks on this building.
The clearest example is the Omen AI headquarters in Irvine, where the exterior was treated as one composition across more than one elevation. It reads as architecture rather than signage, which is the difference between a building people recognize and a building with a sign on it.
Where a mural earns its place
Not every wall is worth painting. These are the ones that repay it.
Open floors
These reward scale and restraint. People sit facing the wall for eight hours, so it has to work as background rather than distraction.
Stairwells and corridors
The most underused surfaces in most buildings and usually the best value, because they are large, constantly seen, and nobody expects anything there.
Meeting rooms
These end up on camera in every video call, which is worth deciding deliberately rather than by accident.
Building exteriors
The biggest statement, and what turns a building into a landmark people give directions by.
Construction hoardings
Eighteen months of plywood turned into the first marketing a new office has.
Working around you
Painted
at night and
at weekends
An occupied office is not a construction site, and we do not treat it like one.
Interiors are painted evenings and weekends, in screened sections, with flooring and furniture protected and low odor products so the space is usable the next working morning. A single feature wall is a few days. A multi area program runs one to three weeks.
Two things are worth raising early on leased space. Landlords usually need to approve the design, which is far easier with a rendered preview in hand. And it is worth agreeing at the start whether the artwork is expected to come off at the end of the lease, because a mural can be painted over conventionally where a wrap has to be stripped.
Moving into a new floor?
The best time to paint is before the furniture arrives. Tell us the timeline.