Custom Paintings for African Homes

Paintings for African Homes Options

Design writers covering Nigeria in 2026 keep pointing at the same shift. Dark woods are back, textures are layered, and people want a room that says something about their own family. Three requests come up again and again.

Portraits painted from your own photos

This is the request we get most from African and diaspora buyers, and the one a print cannot answer. Old photos are fine: small, scratched, faded, a scan from an album, a screenshot from a video call. We can combine several photos into one composition, so a couple who never sat for a picture together end up in one painting. If the person in the photo has died, our page on memorial portraits walks through what to send when the only picture left is faded or blurry.

Skin tone is the part buyers worry about most, and they are right to. Deep skin is not one flat brown. It carries warm and cool light and it changes across a face, so our painters mix it in layers instead of filling a shape with one color. During a commission we send progress photos while the painting is still on the easel, so you can ask for more warmth before the paint dries. See custom portrait paintings for how a commission runs.

Your own cloth, turned into a painting

Bring us the fabric and we build an original abstract from it. Photograph it in daylight, or post us a swatch. We take the colors and the rhythm of the pattern and paint something new at wall scale, in paint thick enough to read from across the room.

Identify the artist, photographer or textile source and explain any cultural or usage requirements. We can discuss a personal interpretation without assigning unverified origins to the finished work. Related guidance: custom geometric and color block paintings.

Color matching is a real step, not a promise. We mix the color, photograph it under daylight and send you that photo for approval before we start painting. If it reads too pink next to your sofa, we mix again. Match to a paint code, a fabric sample or a photo. More on our color matched paintings page.

Baobab, acacia and animals

These commissions come two ways. Either you send a reference, a photo you took yourself or an image you have the right to use, and we paint from it. Or you pick a catalog design and we change it: a sunset shifted toward terracotta and gold, a horizontal reworked as three panels for a long lobby wall. Elephants, giraffes and lions are painted from your reference rather than pulled from a stock line.

Our catalog animal designs sit in the animal and wildlife collection. Any of them can be repainted in your colors and your size.

Bold color in a modern room

Magenta, cobalt, gold, burnt orange and terracotta sit well against dark wood and against the warm plaster and cream walls common in Lagos and Accra interiors. If your furniture is quiet, one large loud canvas carries the room. We paint at whatever scale the wall needs, including single canvases up to 5 meters (about 16 feet), which we quote case by case.

Hotels, lodges, restaurants and designers

There is no minimum order. Trade pricing applies from one piece, the rate improves at 6 pieces and again at 21, and mixed designs count together. Portraits for the suites, a large abstract for the lobby and small pieces for the corridor all count toward one combined rate.

Production runs 7 to 10 business days for 1 to 5 pieces, 10 to 15 for 6 to 20, 15 to 20 for 21 to 50, and about 20 for 51 up to about 1,400 when the project is booked at least one week ahead. Large canvases, heavy texture and multi-panel sets sit at the top of their band, because thick paint has to dry between layers. For a first order or a big project we paint a sample first. It is a separate single-piece order, and the larger order is quoted on its own. Full terms are on our trade page.

Getting it to Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, Johannesburg or the diaspora

For most countries you can choose duties included in the delivery quote (DDP), or pay the duties yourself on arrival. Freight is quoted separately at cost and we do not add anything to it. Express by FedEx or DHL takes 5 to 10 business days. Air freight and sea freight are both available, and sea takes 25 to 40 days. CIF and DDP are available on request, so ask us about your address before you plan around it. If your address is in the United States, the same freight choices are laid out for that destination on our page about shipping to the United States.

Rolled canvas in a tube is the cheapest way to move volume, especially over about 20 pieces, and a local framer can stretch it on arrival. Stretched and framed work needs more space, so we crate it and confirm the crate count before booking transport.

Paintings for African Homes References & Permissions

Your References for Paintings for African Homes

The catalog is a starting point, not a limit. Most of what leaves this studio for African and diaspora homes was never in it. Browse the figurative and human collection for a feel of how we handle people in paint, then send us the thing you actually want.

1. Send it A photo, a fabric swatch, a Pinterest board, an AI image, a sketch on paper.
2. Tell us the wall Rough size, or the width of the sofa below it, plus the wall color.
3. Pick the finish Rolled, stretched on wood bars, or framed in black, white, wood, silver or gold. All five frame colors cost the same.
4. Approve the color If we are matching a fabric or paint code, we send a daylight photo of the mixed color first.
5. Approve the painting We photograph the finished canvas. Only when you say yes do we pack it and book the freight.

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