Murals - Commercial

• Mc Donald’s Playplaces Several indoor playplaces from a huge focal wall to every wall! Cartoon scenes depicting McD characters and products. Some interacting with existing architecture/equipment.
• Mc Donald’s Restaurants Several remodel jobs including Faux Finish, Faux “Tile jobs” (Marble & Southwest stone pieces to match actual surfaces. Often functional – where there was no other solution for the need.
• Gethsemane Baptist Church 8’x10’ Baptistery Mural of Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane beside a stream with Palm Trees
• Dairy Queen – 2’x 100’ SML landscape, Clouds are in the shapes of products (doubles as advertising!)
• ShopRite – 15’ x 30’ Landscape (from the Peaks of Otter to the SML Dam) with major points of interest. Julia painted all Lake activity on left panel. Department Signs in trompe l’oeil style with products depicted.
• ShopRite Pharmacy – 15’ x 20’ One day! Looks like outbuilding, advertises Drive-Thru & Delivery
• Fallon’s – 10’ x 15’ Exterior Mural touched up & new restaurant added. Lake scene including owner’s plane flying a sign: “Eat at Fallon’s” (advertising!), people enjoying lake activities & Peaks of Otter landmark mountains. On front: two trompe l”oeil style
• Joe’s Pizza & Italian Restaurant – (HUGE-Entire Restaurant!) Gorgeous “Tuscan” Faux Finish, Trompe l’oeil Murals (including shelves, niches, windows, walkout scenes, etc.), 32 Marble Columns, Signs, etc. 14 days!
• Ronald McDonald House – (Huge-Entire Basement & Laundry Room) 8’ x 14’ Roanoke Skyline, Sky Blue on all hallways & walls, Rooms off main living room area made to look like individual store fronts w/awnings, etc. 5 days (They paid for 2, we donated 3)
• New York Pizza – (Entire Restaurant) 8’ x 50’ Every wall painted a cloudy evening sky with a New York City Skyline and a full moon (with iridescent paint!), Dedication to the Twin Towers, Statue of Liberty 2 Days
• Bedford Chamber of Commerce – 5’ x 40’ Bedford County countryside with more than 50 points of interest (painted in detail from photos or “represented”) from Peaks of Otter to SML & neighboring cities.
• Cup-A-Joe’s Coffee House Interior - Tuscan Faux Finish with a 6’ x 18’ mural of 3 huge arched “windows” overlooking a Tuscany, Italy vineyard scene with a trompe l’oeil sparrow and Chianti bottle on “ledge”. Exterior - 9’ x 15’ Murals on side of building in “alley” (and ground painted with terra cotta color) transforming the space into an outdoor “bistro” atmosphere. Tuscan countryside with a robin and one of their coffee mugs (to boost sales!) on a wrought-iron railing. One day each!
• Smith Mountain Coffee and Cafe, SML – 6’x22’ Mural - Turn-of-the-Century Boardwalk Scene on the Jersey Shore with “Depression Era” Stained Glass Border to match lamps nearby. 3 Days
• Runk & Pratt – Smith Mountain Lake Retirement Village 45,000 gorgeous square feet of Murals, Faux Finish, signs, etc. etc. etc.! Our showroom! Nearly every wall painted with a Thomas Kincaid-style village theme including awnings, foliage, accents, etc. A myriad of murals including 2 rooms 3 stories high and every inch painted including sky & clouds on the ceilings and a huge walk out mural “onto the patio” with the breath-taking Lake beyond! (30 days worth!)
• Runk & Pratt Assisted Living Facility – Lynchburg Most walls painted with a village theme and lots of foliage. In both Dining Rooms – every wall painted with an outdoor feel (“Outdoor Cafe” & “Park Pavilion”). Nearly every resident’s room - door transformed into an individual “cottage” look with awning, door number, foliage, accents, etc. Kitchen & Nurses’ Stations enhanced, and lots of Directional Signs (20 days worth!)
• Runk & Pratt Corporate Offices Absolutely fabulous Silver, Gold & Cream Faux Finish on 2-story focal wall along the Stairs opposite entrance (for a dramatic effect!). Gold metallic flakes added to basecoat silver for a subtle, glistening effect that changes as you move throughout the room… Also painted on focal wall in Receptionist’s Room and front Conference Room, and on every wall in the Stairwell, Entryway, and in the Main Conference Room. Gorgeous! 2 Days
• Mexico Viejo Entire Restaurant - Gorgeous, aged Spanish-looking Faux Finish on every wall, with lavish, realistic-looking, red and pink bougainvilleas draping over Spanish tile painted on all bulkheads. 7’x12’ “Walkout” mural of Southwest scene in Banquet Room, 4’x12’ mural of Cowboy Encampment scene, depicting owner and his family, their horses, etc.
• Westlake Library 5’x15’ “Window” with trompe l’oeil objects on the “window sill”, with over 40 vignettes of literary characters each representing a different genre of literature to encourage reading!! Below, a library “shelf” with over 70 books titled with every genre of literature we could think of!! (Lots of eye-fooling extras!)
• Designs by Sheryl 7’x16’ trompe l’oeil mural on side of building to look like opening of “showroom” door. On each side, a life-size scene of one of their custom kitchens, and baths. One huge “wooden” sign “hanging” in the middle with their logo, info, etc. Wall continued from front including vinyl siding and stone work below.
• Acquisition Title & Settlement Co. 6’x30’ mural to break up long hallway. “Window” overlooking the Lake with personal items on “windowsill”. Owner’s lakeside home depicted with her dock, boat, herself, her children and their children, her dog, and their watercraft/toys – all from photos.
• Kara’s Closet Room in back for shoes painted to look like a hut with sign: “The Shoe Hut” and accents like planters with flowers, and the owner’s pets on their pillows with their toys, etc.