Cosmo’s Room

We just finished up a really fun room for an African Grey Parrot. He’s one lucky bird to have parents that love him so much that they would have us create this room for him.

View into the room

View into the room

Iguana

Cosmo in flight

Monkey

Toucan

Macaws and Toucan

Hummingbird

Toucan

Copper Barrel Ceiling, Niches and Columns

Barrel ceiling in entry

There are two niches, one on either side of the front door

Columns painted to look like old wood

Lego Animation Tribute Kid Room

The client said they wanted “maybe some primary colors” on the walls and the kids wanted the movie Cars, because it was hot at the time. We came up with this idea to make the room a bit more timeless. We pitched the idea of creating a giant Lego fortress with vignettes from animated movies. We rummaged through the kid’s toys and dvds and incorporated their favorite things into the design. We can’t tell you how many adults have told us they wish it was their room and the kids love it.

Lego room mural

Bugs life detail

Lego room mural

Dinosaurs

Jack detail

Nemo detail

A view from the Lego fortress

Shrek, Puss-n-boots and Donkey

Woody takes a ride on a Lego plane

Those are a few details of the movies we included. We also painted Jungle Book, Monsters Inc., Cars, Lion King, etc.. Good fun!

Habanero’s Grill at The Rim, San Antonio, Texas

This is the second location for Habanero’s Grill which we lovingly refer to as H2. Steve Kraft is a great guy and we love working with him. His places tend to take a beating because he has a pretty young crowd so we covered the entire lower half of the restaurant in mdf. No tacky chunks out of the sheet rock here.

Funky San Antonio mural

We carved out the mdf, installed and painted it. We also created our “longhorn catfish” and installed it.

Longhorn catfish

Steve always wants us to incorporate some of the local flavor to the murals so we incorporated a rollercoaster and roadrunner into the theme as a nod to Fiesta Texas and UTSA which are across the highway.

Rollercoaster

Steve also asked that we paint his kids in, we did that at H1, so they are in the car with the flaming skeleton. The first car, with the skeleton is a cut out that is jutting out of the scene.

Rollercoaster detail

We created signage and marketing props for tee shirts.

Area over the food line

Hallway to the restrooms

Another view of the hall

Parade of Homes

Entry dome

We did a Parade of Homes a while back in The Dominion in San Antonio. Anyone who has ever worked on a parade house knows that it is insane, fast and furious. Every contractor is thrown at the job at the same time and everyone is scrambling to finish at the last moment.

The dome in the entry is about 7 feet tall and 8 feet across with the height being about 24 feet. We also glazed the ceiling and walls all along the entry and gallery.

Gallery ceiling

The gallery ceiling consisted of 8 insets, 4 to the left and 4 to the right of the entry. We did a copper patina finish and glazed the walls.

Formal living room ceiling

The formal living room groin vault ceiling was fun to do. It is about 20 feet by 16 feet and about 18 feet tall. We came up with the design and freehand painted it.

Kitchen ceiling

The domes in the kitchen are about 4 1/2 feet wide and 9 feet long. We painted a bronze patina.

Master bath walls

The master bath was huge. We called it “The Church.” We freehand painted the design, distressed it and then glazed over all the walls.

Master bath ceiling

We painted the beams on the ceiling to match the existing trim and cabinetry.

Cigar lounge walls

We had some fun with joint compound in the cigar lounge with a lizard texture. All the walls were executed in this fashion and it was a big hit.

Kid's canopy room

We created an atmosphere of calm fun in the kid’s room with an open air canopy feel. The designers added fabric to the window and doorways to finish it off and it was very cute.

Growth chart

Canopy with animal topiary

Canopy room