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Hand-Painted Hotel and Residence Art for Manama Towers

When a Manama tower puts hotel floors and branded residences under one roof, the paintings for each half may need a different person’s approval.

Bahrain has passed 24,000 hotel rooms, and 12 more five-star hotels are due to open, according to the Daily Tribune in June 2026. If a new tower also holds branded homes, its developer decides where the hotel floors end and the residences begin. The hotel brand’s design lead may then approve the art on the guest floors, while the developer names someone else for the homes. The FF&E (furniture, fixtures and equipment) schedule for both halves may sit with one procurement team or a fit-out contractor.

PaletteMomento is a hand-painting studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen, China, supplying trade buyers worldwide. You can order from a single painting upward, and each canvas is the work of one painter, from the first marks to the last. Each one is painted on premium linen, with nothing printed underneath. Each design has its own price line, and designs for the hotel floors and the residences count together toward the quantity tiers. With an H or R code on every design, you can total each half from the same quote.

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A large horizontal palette-knife painting of an orange and red sunset over dark still water with a bright central reflection, in a thin black frame on a white background — A wide sunset from our collection. In a suite where windows take much of the outer wall, a wide painting like this can fill the longest solid wall.

01 / Split the schedule

One tower, two art programs: hotel floors and residences

Some Manama towers are planned as a hotel and a home at the same time. One harbor tower was announced with hotel rooms on its upper floors and branded residences below. In Bahrain Bay, a project of 120 rooms and apartments was announced in December 2024. It is slated to open in 2028, a date that may still move. In Seef, a hotel and residences project was announced with 594 studios, suites and penthouses, each with a full kitchen.

The two halves of a tower like this may answer to different people. The hotel floors may follow the brand’s design standard. The residences have unit types of their own, and the developer may want a different look for them.

Give each program its own codes and one approver

We suggest splitting the art schedule into two programs, each with its own artwork ID prefix and one named approver. The hotel list can then follow the brand standard, while the residence list follows the unit types. Before shipping, each approver checks the daylight photos of every finished canvas under their own prefix, one design code at a time. You can follow every step before that check in our painting process. For art in the residences, our guide for multifamily properties has more ideas.

02 / One order, two sign-offs

The hotel floors and the residences can share one order and still stay apart

A suite on the hotel floors and a unit in the residences may need the same wall size, yet answer to different approvers. An H or R code on each design keeps the two apart on the quote. Both groups still count as one order under the terms below. It also helps if both approvers settle the subjects before painting starts, so every design suits local customs in Bahrain.

The floor split: which floors are hotel rooms and which are residences, with the unit types on each
Reference images for each program, with the image size you choose and the quantity of every design
Elevations or measured photos of the solid walls in each suite and unit type
The name of the one approver for each program
Whether each design travels rolled, stretched or framed
The date the art must be up in each program, for example before the Formula 1 test scheduled for 24 February 2027
The delivery address in Manama

Shrink-wrapped plywood shipping crates arranged inside a freight vehicle — Wrapped plywood cases loaded in a freight truck, ready for the road.

Studio order & delivery terms

Made by hand: Painted directly on premium linen, with no printed base. Acrylic is standard; oil is available on request. One painter takes each canvas from the first marks to the last.
One piece or a collection: Orders start at one painting, with quantity tiers from 6 and 21 pieces. Mixed designs count together. A sample is a separate single-piece order, priced on its own and not credited against a later order.
Rolled, stretched or framed: You choose the image width and height. Suitable rolled work includes an extra 5 cm of blank canvas on every side for stretching or framing. Please mention a larger allowance before production. Heavy texture should travel stretched or framed.
A complete delivery quote: Your quote sets out the artwork, presentation and delivery charges. We work with more than 200 logistics partners to compare express and sea options. Most destinations are served on DDP terms, with exceptions where local customs rules require another arrangement. The quote states the delivery terms for Bahrain.
Time for each stage: Painting, your review, transport and any local framing are separate stages. Rush production can be requested, and we confirm a feasible date for the actual order.
Payment: Usually a 50% deposit, with the balance after final approval and before shipping.

03 / Size to what the glass leaves

Glass-walled suites: measure the solid walls in each unit type

One waterfront tower of suites in Manama opened in January 2024 with floor-to-ceiling windows. It rises 30 floors and holds 98 suites.

Where glass takes much of the outer wall, the art can end up on fewer walls. These may be the wall behind the bed or the entry wall. A standard room plan will not show you which of these a suite has. Measuring each suite type will.

A vertical impressionist painting of an open blue-shuttered window framing a calm sea under a white-blossom branch, in a thin gold frame on a white background — 01 / Hotel suite, H-02A calm sea through an open window.

A large vertical abstract painting of red, orange, cream and gray layers in horizontal palette-knife strokes, the warm right side fading to a pale left — 02 / Residence, R-SUWarm layers for a residence with its own look.

Planning example: one look per program, shown with a pair of canvases from our collection.

Send an elevation for each suite and unit type

An elevation is a drawing of one wall, seen straight on. We suggest one for each solid wall in each suite type, on the hotel floors and in the residences alike. It helps to note how wide and tall it is, and anything that stands in front of it, such as a desk or a TV. If drawings are not ready yet, a photo of the wall with the measurements written beside it works too. You then set each painting’s final width and height to fit those walls.

04 / Particular to Manama

Where a Manama tower can differ from hotel work elsewhere

Our Manama tower hands over its residences before its hotel floors. Can those paintings ship first?

Yes, the R-coded paintings for a Manama tower’s residences can ship as their own batch, ahead of the hotel floors. It helps to note each program’s handover date on the schedule you send.

Can large canvases reach a Manama hotel that sits on its own island?

Yes: one Manama hotel rises 68 floors from its own man-made island, reached by a causeway. A large design for it can travel rolled, stretched or framed, each priced separately. If your site team knows a size limit on the delivery route, tell us, and a design that suits rolling can travel rolled instead. The choice can differ from one design to the next.

Can a pearling scene for a Manama hotel show Bahrain’s own boats?

Yes, and naming the boat keeps the scene local: in Bahrain the banoosh was used for fishing and pearl diving, while the boom carried long-distance trade. It helps to put the boat type in your brief, with a reference photo of it if you have one. UNESCO recognized Bahrain’s pearling heritage in 2012 through the Pearling Path. Its path and historic buildings are in Muharraq, next to Manama, so a painting drawn from them is best captioned as Muharraq.

Which 2027 Formula 1 date should a Manama hotel give as its art deadline?

Bahrain’s 2027 Formula 1 pre-season test is scheduled for 24 to 27 February, so 24 February is your deadline if the art must be up before it. The season-opening Grand Prix is scheduled for 12 to 14 March. If only the race weekend matters to your owner, 12 March leaves a little over two weeks more. Both dates can still change, and the 2026 Bahrain Grand Prix was called off.

Is there another way into Bahrain if the container port pauses?

Yes: besides Khalifa Bin Salman Port, rolled canvas can fly into Bahrain International Airport. Goods that land in Saudi Arabia can also finish the trip by road over the King Fahd Causeway, which was reported open in early September 2026. The port, Bahrain’s main container port, paused berth and gate operations for two days in April 2026 on official guidance. For routes across the rest of the region, see our Gulf shipping guide.

H for hotel, R for residence

Hand-painted art for both halves of your Manama tower

A floor list marked H or R shows us how your tower splits, and the approver names show who signs off each half. We price each design once its reference image and size are settled.

Message us on WhatsApp for a hotel art quote

Our fastest way to discuss your schedule and price. The written quote follows by email for your records.
WhatsApp: usually an immediate reply.
Email: usually within 12 hours. Monday–Sunday.

support@palettemomento.com Or send your schedule and images through our quote form.