You have a stairwell, a double-height void or a 3-metre sofa wall, and nothing off the shelf is the right size or will fit up the stairs

You specify by dimension, not by mood. The brief in your hand reads 3,400 × 1,100 mm, stairwell, seen from the half-landing and from the hall below, or 2.6 m wide above a 3.2 m sofa, ceiling 2.7 m, or curved wall on the stair, radius 1.8 m, three panels. You are buying one piece, occasionally two, and you will ask four questions before anything else: what is the largest canvas you can paint, can it be a set, can it ship rolled, and how do you change the ratio without wrecking the composition. This page answers those four in order and then shows how the order runs.

Search demand for this exact problem is large enough that Etsy runs a dedicated market page for extra large art for stairwells ³, and the sizing guides written for it converge on one point: the usual failure is buying too small, because rooms flatten scale in a way showrooms do not ².

Not you? A reception wall, atrium or bar with an owner, brand and designer all signing off is on Hotel lobby & public-area statement pieces. A whole residential scheme where the palette leads and the sizes are standard is on Residential interior designers. A villa or house with twenty positions is on Villas & whole-house projects. If you are the framer who will stretch the rolled canvas, Galleries & framers covers the trade side.

The listed sizes are templates by orientation: most vertical and horizontal works list the same 14 sizes up to 80 × 60 in (203 × 153 cm); panoramic works list 11 sizes up to 50 × 100 in (127 × 254 cm), including 30 × 90 in (76 × 229 cm) and 40 × 80 in (102 × 203 cm); square works run to 72 × 72 in (183 × 183 cm). Beyond the templates, single canvases of 2 m and more and panoramic formats are normal work for the studio: they are painted to order, quoted individually and the size is confirmed in writing before painting starts. Send the wall and we propose the canvas size, or a panel split, on your elevation.

That matters because the guides written for tall walls put the target well above stock sizes: a larger stairwell wants a piece of about 48 × 72 in, with the artwork covering 60–75% of the usable wall width once doors, trim and furniture are subtracted ¹; a 3.0 m wall wants about 180 cm of canvas and a 4.0 m wall about 240 cm or a pair ². A 150 × 100 cm stock canvas on a 3.4 m stairwell fails both tests.

Because size is templated by orientation rather than by work, treat oversized as something we do to any of the 1,455 works, not as a filter you can browse. Pick the composition first; the dimension is yours.

Yes, and on large formats it is usually the practical route. The canvas ships unstretched in a strong paper tube, insured, and your framer stretches it on site. Guides for oversized work make the same recommendation: rolled canvas is easier to transport and suits local framing and international shipping ¹, and taking a large canvas off the stretcher and re-stretching it on arrival cuts shipping costs substantially ². For a stairwell the practical gain is that a 3.4 m painting arrives as a tube that goes up the stair in one hand, and the stretcher is built in the room it will hang in.

Where the route is clear, a stretched or framed piece is the alternative: frameless stretched, or framed in gold, silver, black, white or wood, boxed with hanging hooks and ready to hang on arrival. Tell us the tightest point on the route (door clear opening, stair turn, lift car internal size) and we will say which finish makes sense before you choose.

Every delivery is fully insured. If a piece arrives damaged we replace it at no cost: unpack in front of the courier where you can, have them note the damage on the waybill, photograph the piece and the packaging, send us the photos and keep both until the claim closes.

What to give your framer: the finished face size you specified to us and the finish you want at the edges. Send us the same two lines and the painter works to them.

Yes. Only 10 catalogue works are listed as sets, so treat a panel set as made to order rather than something to browse: choose any single work, give us the total wall width and height and the gap you want between panels, and the painter splits the composition across two or three canvases so that it reads as one piece with the gap in place, not as three crops of a photograph. Each panel ships rolled or stretched on its own.

Sets solve three walls that a single canvas cannot. A curved stair wall: three flat panels follow the curve where one large stretched canvas would have to be built on site. A wall wider than the tallest access opening: two panels each fit the door where one would not. A wall above 4 m: the guides suggest about 240 cm of canvas or a pair for a 4.0 m wall ², and for wider tall walls a pair of verticals with a small gap between them ¹. Typical gaps in those guides are 2–4 in ¹ or 6–10 cm ²; we paint to whatever gap you specify.

The 10 listed sets are useful as references for how a composition can run across a gap: AA#016 (grey and steel-blue drawn lines, two verticals), MA#015 (nested grey and greige rectangles), TA#387 (silver and gold sunburst relief in three) and TA#001 (gold sunburst on black, two panels). Each can also be re-proportioned as a set to your wall.

By painting, not by scaling. Nothing in the catalogue is a file that gets stretched to fit: each piece is painted again for your order, so a 3:1 stairwell version of a 4:3 work is a fresh painting in which the painter extends the field, re-spaces the elements and keeps the parts that made you choose it. A plaster-relief work gains more of its ground and keeps its ridge; a floral gains stem and sky, not a taller flower; a landscape gains foreground or horizon. You see this before it is final, because progress photos or video come at each stage and we continue only when you have approved.

Three things help the painter get the re-proportion right first time. Say what must stay: the central motif, the colour balance, the way the work reads from below. Say where the eye will be: a stairwell piece is seen at an angle from the flight and from the hall, so the weight often sits lower than it would above a sofa. Say what the wall does: a work above furniture normally sits at two thirds to three quarters of the width of the piece below it, with 15–20 cm between the bottom of the canvas and the furniture ², while an open wall works from a centre height of about 145–152 cm ², which is why a tall stairwell piece is usually taller than the guide numbers alone suggest.

Palette can change at the same time. If the wall is lit differently from the rest of the room, or the scheme is warmer than the catalogue image, send paint, fabric or stone references and the same composition is painted to them.

1. Brief. You send the wall dimensions, the access route, the reference code or a description, finish and deadline. Minimum order is one piece, so a single stairwell painting is a normal order.
2. Quote, within 1 business day. A price for the piece at your size and finish, with shipping included, and the painting time for that size confirmed in writing. There is no public price list; oversized and panel sets are always quoted individually.
3. Sketch, for commissions and re-proportions that move a lot. Where the ratio change is large or the work is painted from your reference, a sketch is approved before the canvas is started.
4. Paint, about 1 week for a catalogue-size piece. Progress photos or video at each stage; you approve before the painter continues. Colour and composition are corrected on the easel, not after delivery.
5. Sign and certify. The finished piece is signed by the artist and ships with a certificate of authenticity.
6. Ship, 3–7 days. Free, fully insured, by DHL, FedEx or USPS, tracked; rolled in a tube, or stretched or framed in a box with hooks. The consignee can be your framer.

Door to door for a piece within the listed templates is 10–13 days. A canvas beyond the templates, or a three-panel set, is scheduled on its own timeline and the date you get at quotation is the one we hold to. For comparison, general guidance on commissioning oversized work tells buyers to allow two to four months ²; send the deadline with the brief and we tell you in writing whether it holds.

• Wall width and height, and the finished canvas size you want if you already know it. For a stairwell, the height at both ends of the wall and where the string line cuts it.
• Ceiling height and mounting height, or the centre line you want the piece to hang on.
• The access route: narrowest door clear opening, tightest stair turn, lift car internal dimensions. This decides rolled against stretched.
• Viewing positions: from the flight, from the half-landing, from the hall below, from the sofa. A photograph of the wall from each is worth more than a description.
• What sits near it: sofa or console width, a handrail, a window, a pendant that drops through the void.
• The work: a catalogue code, or two or three codes you are choosing between, or a reference image for a commission.
• Palette references if the colours should move: paint codes, a fabric cutting photographed in daylight, a stone sample.
• Finish: rolled for local stretching, frameless stretched, or framed in gold, silver, black, white or wood.
• Panel set or single, with the gap if a set.
• Deadline and delivery address, which can be your framer's or the site.

Send this to request a quote and the answer comes back within one business day with a proposed size marked on your elevation where one is needed.

The catalogue is nearly three quarters vertical: 1,069 of 1,455 works, with 424 tagged Entryway & Hallway and 435 tagged Corridor & Circulation, so tall walls have the widest choice. Wide walls draw on 106 panoramic and 118 horizontal works, most of them tagged Living Room (97 and 103) or Dining Room. Square works, 158 in all, suit a landing or the flat wall at the top of a flight. Every one of these is painted at your size; the tiles below are starting points by style, mood and orientation, not size filters.

For a stairwell that has to hold from two floors, Textured & Plaster works read at distance because the relief catches the light: TA#869 (tan and cream marble veins in raised plaster), TA#1065 (combed gold and bronze ridges) and TA#770 (grey, white and black sculpted wave ridges) are typical of the 88 vertical Textured & Plaster works tagged Entryway. For a wall that needs weight rather than calm, the 95 vertical Entryway works tagged Dramatic include AA#725 (thick black and white palette-knife impasto) and MA#084 (gold, white, black and ochre plaster bands). Above a sofa, the 97 Living Room panoramics run from AA#983 (grey and gold marble veins) to IA#1176 (cream poppy and sage meadow) and TA#1081 (white blossom on blue-grey), each listed to 254 cm and painted wider to order.

The painter who re-proportions a work to your stairwell is one of the studio painters of Siji Art Hub in Foshan, Guangdong, of which iHomeArt is the trade channel. They train inside the hub's exhibition programme (more than 50 exhibitions, with professors of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts among the exhibitors), and the hub's collection exceeds 11,000 works. The 1,455 catalogue works are the painted-to-order range; there are no prints and no stock, so a 3.4 m canvas is not an enlargement of anything, it is a painting made at that size.

Every piece is signed by the artist and ships with a certificate of authenticity. For a private client that is the paperwork they keep; for a designer it is what goes in the handover file with the framer's invoice. If the client wants a work that is not painted to order at all, the senior partnered artists' master works are kept as painted, with provenance, exhibition history, a photograph with the artist and show invitations, and are described on Custom & commission.

What we do not claim: no stock, so nothing ships tomorrow; no public prices, so every enquiry is quoted; no fire-rating or flame-retardancy certification on canvas, so specify any treatment locally; and a hand-painted re-proportion differs from the catalogue photograph in the way hand-painting differs, which is the reason the stage photos exist.