House sign with primroses

Our customer asked us to create an ovalk house sign showing a ring of yellow primroses surrounding the house number.

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House Signs depicting Woodpeckers

Our customer asked us to make this 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval sign depicting a green woodpecker and a lesser spotted woodpecker. These birds frequent the customers garden.

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Irish House Sign with shamrock motif

Our customer located in Ireland requested this 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval house name sign depicting a single shamrock and a gaelic font. - Notice we are able to make Irish writing with 'fadas' which are accents over certain letters. The gaelic font we used for this house sign is called Ardagh - Céad Míle Fáilte means a 'Hundred Thousand Welcomes' in Gaelic

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Two Rabbits House name sign

Our customer located in the USA requested this layout design showing two domestic rabbits huddled together in grass. She saw a similar example that I painted a couple of years ago and liked it so much that she wanted the same.

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Blue House Name Sign with Boat Wheel

Our customer asked us to make this 15.5 inch by 7.25 inch Mews Style House Name Plaque with an ultramarine blue background and a Boat's Wheel hand painted in the top arch.

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Cow and Calf House Sign

Our customer asked us to make them a sign depicting a friesian cow and calf in a field. Our artis designed the pictorial with the cows standing sideways to show off the striking black and white markings of this breed of cattle

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House sign depicting butterflies and flowers

Our customer asked us to create a house number plaque with lots of spring flowers and butterflies on it. The oval plaque measures 10.25 inches by 8.25 inches and our artist managed to paint quite a lot of flowers and butterflies with a nice ballanced design

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Yorkshire Terrier Portait house plaque

Our customers gave us an image of their show yorkie dog and asked us to paint a portrait from it depicting the dog in show condition but on a lawn. Our pet portrait artist painted a good likeness.

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House name plate with green woodpecker pictorial

Our customer asked us to create a house name sign depicting a close up oval pictorial of a green woodpecker standing on a lawn. Apparently the customer gets green woodpeckers visiting her garden quite frequently. - The first time I ever saw a green woodpecker on our lawn I thought it was an escaped parakeet!

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House plaque with Fieldfare design

Our customer requested a 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval sign depicting a fieldfare bird sitting on a branch of hawthorne with red berries and a ripe half eaten red apple. Her choice of font was this Makintosh style font.

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House number Plate with pansies design

our customer saw an example of this sign that we made about a year ago and asked for the same design except for the house number which is 13 on this one.

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House Signs as wedding gift

Our customer in Holland sent us a jpg of two foxes heads and asked us to create this design - it is a plaque that they are giving as a wedding gift. J&J are the initials of both partners.

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Stem Roses house sign

The customers who ordered this house name sign acually live on the Isle of Wight and called in at our house sign studio to order this 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch classic oval. They asked for these two specific types of roses ( Peace Rose and Whiskey Mac Rose ) to be painted with their stems crossing as shown. The font is Victorian as they live in a victorian period home

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Rectangular house name sign with cricket theme

Our customer who lives in Switzerland asked us to create a rectangular family name sign with a cricket bowler to the left of the name and a cricket stump to the right.

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House Sign with swallows design

Our customer asked us to paint an oval pictorial with swallows flying in the centre of this house plaque.

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red Tulips house address plate

Our customer saw a similar examople of a house address plaque we made a few months ago and requested the same flower design for their house plaque.

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Red Squirrel House name plaques

Our customer from Scotland requested this 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval house sign to be painted with a red squirrel sitting on a branch with red berries - Scotland still has a native species of red squirrels, same as here on the Isle of Wight

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House Sign with Night Heron painting

Our customer located in Bermuda asked us to make this large rustic oval house sign. Aparently night herons come to feed and rest on their property on the Island.

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House Number Signs with flowers

Our customer asked us to create a 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch classic oval vertically depicting a daffodil and a red rose to signify Wales and England, the countries where each partner was born in.

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House Plaque with customers Dog portrait

Our customer asked us to create a sign depicting her dog from a photo she sent us by email. Unusually our customer also sent us the layout design she prefered so our animal portrait artist simply copied the design. The dog looks realy cute and is a true likeness when compared with the photo sent.

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House Number Signs with Duck Motif

Our customer located in Holland ordered this 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch classic oval sign with just the house number and a close up of a male mallard duck.

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Scottish Thistle House Plaques

Our customer asked us to create a large mews style house name plaque with a simple scottish thistle motif hand painted in the arch. The font is called century Schoolbook and has been altered slightly by enlarging the end letters and underlining the words.

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House Sign with Anchor Motif

Our customer asked for a simple anchor design to be hand painted in the centre of this 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval house sign.

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House Sign with chestnuts design

Our customer asked us to create a 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval depicting a branch of ripe horse chestnuts with chestnut tree leaves.

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House Name sign with coats of arms

Our customer located in the USA ordered a similar sign from us a month or so ago and liked it so much she asked us to make another one but with the family name Noonan arching over the family emblem

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Greyhound racing house sign

Our customer asked us to create this layout - a black and white greyhound in full racing stride leaping over the house number with the house name arching along the bottom. The customer also requested that the dog wears a red racing coat with the number 1 on it.

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House Sign depicting Emperor Penguin

Our customer requested a 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval sign depicting an antarctic scene and a solitary emperor penguin standing on a block of ice. Brrrrr!

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Apples House Plaque

Our customers requested a slightly unusual design for their house name plaque. Two ripe red apples on a branch with apple blossom above the house name and one fallen red apple below.

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Cockerel weathervane house sign

here is an unusual design requested by our customer located in Italy. She asked us to create a design showing a painted cockerel weathervane which is her fathers favourite feature in their home garden together with some wisteria blooms which is her mothers favourite feature in the garden. Painted by sign artist Rosemary Hitchman

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Pear tree house sign

Our customer saw an example of a smaller 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch classic oval base plaque we made a few months ago with ripe pears and blossom on a branch and asked us to re-create a similar design onto this 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval.

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Irish theme House Plaque

Our customer asked for us to create a gaelic style house sign with a gaelic style font and irish harp and shamrock in the center. The sign was destined for shipping to the Republic of Ireland.

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House Name Plate with Black Labrador Dog

Our customer sent us a portrait image of their black labrador dog by email and asked us to create a house sign depicting the dog in front of a beach and palm trees.

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Yorkshire Terriers Portrait house signs

Our customer sent us some images she took of her two yorkie dogs, sugar and spice. She asked us to paint them on this 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval base plaque together with the house name and number.

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Rustic slate house sign with Squirrel

Our customer asked us to create this 13.5 inch by 9.5 inch rustic slate oval sign with the red squirrel sitting on a branch to the left of a large house number 77 and a smaller house name underneath. The customer sent us a photo of the squirrel which our wildlife artist painted quite life like. Cute!

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Holly house sign

Our customer asked for a 15.5 inch by 7.25 inch mews style base plaque with a spray of holly painted in the top arch.

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Pears and blossom house plaque

Our customer asked us to create a 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch sign with Pear Tree Cottage in a victorian font and some pears on a branch with blossom.

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Art deco style house sign

Our customer requested a 14.5 inch by 10 inch oval base plaque to be made with an art deco font and the green radiating colours with autumn colour leaves.

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Meerkats house plaque

Our customer asked us to create a house sign depicting these meerkats huddling together. She sent us an image by email for our artist to go by. CUTE!

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Rectangle house sign depicting Japenese Carp

Our customer located in Japan asked us to create a rectangular sign with a pictorial of Japenese Carp underwater. These fish are the native species to Japan from which Koi Carp originated from.

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Irish Family Crest House Plaque

Our customer located in the USA asked us to create a large Mews style plaque with the Nunan family crest hand painted in the arch. The surname is from Irish decent and they requested Feenagh to be writen in a Gaelic Font in the rectangular portion.

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Wisteria Cottage house name plate

Our customer saw an example that our artist Rosemary Hitchman painted a few months ago on a 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval sign and asked for a similar design complete with the bumblebee but on our smaller 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch classic oval

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House name plaque with oak leaves and acorns motif

We have made quite a few house name signs with this oak leaves and acorns design. The unusual thing about this sign is that the word 'oak' is not mentioned on the plaque - usually the signs with this design have a house name like 'The Oaks' 'Oak View' 'Acorns' 'Oak House' etc....

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Heron design house name plate

Our customer saw an example of a sign with a heron painted in the centre and asked us to make a similar sign for her. The font is called Tiffany Bold

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Mews style house sign with Nuthatch

Our customer requested this 15.5 inch by 7.25 inch mews style base plaque with the house name and a hand painted pictorial of a nuthatch bird.

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House address plate with autumn berries design

Our customer asked us to create a 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval house sign with various autumn berries painted in the centre. Brambles, rosehips, black briony, etc

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Rustic slate sign depicting magpies

Our customer asked us to creat a house sign on a rustic slate oval base plaque with two magpies (Two for Joy!) painted on it. The font we used on this sign is called 'Adorable'.

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House Sign with 3 cats

Our customer sent us an image of these 3 pet cats and asked us to create a house sign using their image. We can paint all kinds of animal portraits from photos sent by customers.

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Barn Owl house name plate

Our customer located in Jersey saw a similar example of a barn owl perched in front of a full moon that we made a couple of months ago and asked for exactly the same - including the church silhousetted in the background.

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Nautical theme house signs

Our customer saw a similar example that we made some time ago and requested this sign layout - we get asked a lot for a seagull and anchor.

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Gods of the wind house plaques

Our customer currently located in Hong Kong requested TWO house plaques for their 2 new villas in Cyprus. Boreas and Zefyros are wind gods in ancient mythology. These two signs are going to have a long journey - first to the customers friends in the UK , then to Hong Kong and sometime in the New Year the customer will take them to Cyprus to fix them on their newly built villas.

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White German Shepherd Dog

Our customer asked us to create a 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch house number sign depicting a long haired GERMAN shepherd dog standing in grass.

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House Sign with Tudor Rose

Our customer asked us to make this 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch classic oval sign with the english tudor rose emblem.

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Tardis House Sign

Our customer asked us to create a 18 inch by 8 inch classic rectangle showing the tardis from Doctor Who. She mentioned that her home is much larger on the inside than it looks from the outside, just like the tardis.

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Wheat and wild flowers sign

our customer asked us to create a sign with some ears of wheat, cornflowers, poppies and other flowers found in a wheat field. The sign was also made with a gold rim. Painted by Rosemary Hitchman

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Squirrel Cottage Sign

Our customer asked us for this 14.5 inch by 10 inch oval depicting a grey squirrel sitting on an oak branch. We have only Red Squirrels on the Isle of Wight! Why not take a daytrip to our island or a weekend break to see the red squirrels?

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Flying Pheasant house signs

Our customer asked us for a landscape depicting a male pheasant in flight. The base plaque measures 14.5 inches by 10 inches and because the customer only wanted his house number there was plenty of space to paint a lovely landscape backdrop.

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Red Poppies house name plate

Our customer ordered this 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch classic oval sign depicting red poppies. The customer was born in Flanders but now lives in the UK and this house sign depicts the red poppy flowers which started growing in the fields of Flanders during the first world war. Hand painted by Rosemary Hitchman

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Friesian cow house name sign

Our customer asked us for this 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval sign for his home which is a converted farm building. We designed a pastoral landscape with a close-up of a friesian cow.

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House Plaques with citrus fruit design

Our customer located in France asked us to create a 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval house name plaque showing lemons and limes. Click on the sign to see a larger image - the fruit looks so real - it will make your mouth water!

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Bulk Orders

Not hand painted - just 137 medium classic oval house number plaques. I promised our customer located in Illinois, USA to show an image of their bulk order for Laurel Oaks Homeowners Association before we package and ship them all. - We offer trade discounts for orders of 50 or more non custom painted signs. This order took us about 3 weeks to complete whilst still making our normal online orders.

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House sign depicting two barn owls

Our customer requested a 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval plaque painted with two barn owls. As you can see we designed the pictorial with a bird each end of the log with a gap to depict the house number.

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Red Squirrel

I just had to upload this image I took of a young red squirrel eating a monkey nut. I took the picture on our balcony at home. Here on the Isle of Wight we only have RED squirrels. This one is quite young as he has not yet got the tuffts on his ears yet. We get quite a few red squirrels coming to our balcony to feed each day.

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House sign with tinkerbell pictorial

Our customer located in Sabah, Malaysia asked us to make a sign similar to the one she saw on this blog that we made a while ago. It depicts tinkerbell the fairy with a pink dress pinging a letter on the house name with her wand.

Medium Mews sign with snowdrops pictorial

Our customer saw an example of snowdrop flowers that our artist Ivan Brenton painted on a sign a while back in this blog and asked for a similar close up design painted in the top arch of this base plaque.

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Oval sun motif house plaque

Our customers requested a 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch classic oval with a bright yellow sun motif painted in the center. Painted by Rosemary Hitchman.

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Mirror Carp house plaque

Our customer asked for this 15.5 inch by 7.25 inch large mews style house sign with a hand painted underwater pictorial of a mirror carp.

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Fuchsias house plaque

Our customer asked for a 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval with these fuchsia flowers in the center.

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Red Tulips House sign

Our customer requested a 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch classic oval plaque painted with three red tulips. This is the the first time we have ever been asked for just tulips on a sign, we paint many specific flowers and general floral themed signs. Most popular flowers ordered are daffodils!

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House number sign depicting Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

Our customer ordered a simple number plaque measuring 10.25 inches by 8.25 inches with a portait of her own dog hand painted on the sign. Painted by house sign animal portrait artist

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Rose Cottage house sign depicting pink roses

Our customer located in Denver, Colorado, USA asked for a 14.5 inch by 10 inch house name sign showing pink roses that are growing in her front yard. She sent us a couple of photos of the roses for our artist to go by. Painted by Rosemary Hitchman

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Seascape in Ireland house name plaque

Our customer asked us to create a house name plaque showing her favourite view from her water's edge home in Ireland. She sent us several digital images taken near their property showing Rosse's Point in Irleland and our seascape artist created this lovely seascape view down the estuary to the island and sea.

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Wisteria Cottage House Sign

Our customer requested a house name sign depicting wisteria flowers and a bumblebee - the sign was painted by Rosemary Hitchman

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House Sign with barn owl pictorial

Our customer saw a house sign we made a couple of months ago depicting a barn owl. She requested a similar night time scene but asked for a silhouette of Lincoln Cathedral to be painted in the far distance as she can see the cathedral on the far horizon from their home. - You can see the silhouette to the right of the bird.

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Labrador Dogs and Rottweiler Signs

Our customer who runs a dog boarding kennels in Dorset asked us to create a sign for his own cottage wich depicts a chocolate labrador, rottweiler and yellow labrador. This was painted by our animal portrait artist.

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House sign with male lion head

Our customer asked us for this 15.5 inch by 7.25 inch mews style house plaque with a male lion's head painted in the top arch.

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Violet Cottage house sign

Our customer asked us to create a 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch classic oval house sign with a pictorial of a white butterfly on african violets. Painted by Rosemary Hitchman

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House signs depicting Peacock

Our customer asked for a male peacock displaying full plumage standing in a lawn. The font is called Goudy Handtooled.

House Sign depicting sleepy seagull

Our custimer asked us to create an oval house sign showing a seagull with its eyes half shut as if it was sleepy and resting. The gull is standing on one leg. Painted by house sign artist

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House Sign depicting girl running with dog

Our customer ordered this sign for his grandaughters naming ceremony. It is a 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch classic oval. They had a special dedication day where this plaque was fitted to a protective wooden fence surrounding a newly planted young tree. The little girl is meant to be about 6 or 7 years old and the cavalier king charles spaniel is also part of the family. The date on the plaque is the grandaughters 'naming day' - a bit like a christening day.

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House Name plaque with Landscape pictorial

Our customer asked us to create this 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval with a hand painted pictorial of the view from their back garden. He sent us a few images taken on his digital camera and our house sign landscape artist used them as a guide. The deatil on the wrought iron bridge was the most difficult part to paint.

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House Sign depicting bumblebee flying over lavender

Our customer saw a similar design painted by our artist Rosemary Hitchman and asked us to make one for their home. Lavender Cottage is quite a popular house name. This sign was made on a 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval base plaque - the font is called Tiffany Bold.

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House Sign depicting customers cat

Our customer asked us to create a house name sign with a hand painted life like portrait of this cat. The customer sent to us a photo by email. The cat looks quite real don't you think? Painted by our pet portrait artist

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House Sign depicting Edelweiss and Shamrock

Our customer asked us to make a BLUE Mews Style house sign with edelweiss flowers and shamrock to signify the two countries the occupants of the home originate from. The font the customer asked for is a Celtic font. Painted by Rosemary Hitchman

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House Sign with lady troll cartoon

Our customer asked for a 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval sign with a hand painted cartoon of a female troll with long blonde hair holding a club. Our artist had a lot of fun designing this one!

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House Sign depicting pet Dog

our customer ordered a large oval rustic slate plaque with just the house number and a hand painted pictorial of this dog standing in a field of bluebells. She sent us her favourite image of the dog by email attachment and our pet portrait artist painted the dog true to life.

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House Sign with witch pictorial

Our customer asked us to create a house plaque depicting a witch flying on a broomstick in front of a full moon over a lake. She told us that 'Samhain' is an old pagan festival now known as Halloween. I have made a few designs showing a witch flying on a broomstick over the years - several of them had the house name 'Samhain'.

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Irish House Name Signs

Our customers in Ireland seem to ask us a lot for their house signs in a gaelic font. We actually have several different versions of true gaelic style fonts we can use - all include 'fadas' .

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House number signs depicting Owls

Our customer saw an example of an owl house sign with just the house number in this blog that Rosemary Hitchman painted a few months ago and wanted EXACTLY the same design for his home. - We don't usually paint exactly the same motif designs as we feel that each house sign pictorial should be individual to each customer and it would also become a bit boring for us artists to paint the same motifs all the time. however, on this occasion Rosemary tried to copy the original one as best as she could.

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Our New House Sign Studio

Here are some images of our new House Sign Studio in Sandown, Isle of Wight. We relocated to the premises in February 2008. The new sign studios occupy well over 1000 sq ft plus several offices and other facilities - all our house signs are made here from start to finish and these new house sign studios have enough space to allow our further expansion plans during 2008 and beyond.

Final quality control inspection of a typical days work!

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Rustic Slate Oval House Sign with cartoon characters

Our customer located in Malta sent us an image of the sceene depicting winnie the pooh reaching for a jar on honey with tigger amd other cartoon characters. He also asked for the word HUNNY to have the one letter 'N' reversed. The font is called Comic Sans.

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Baby Deer House signs

Our customer asked us to create a rustic slate oval house sign depicting a fawn huddled alone in a field in front a distant woodland. Ahh-cute!

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Spring flowers and ladybird sign

Our customer asked us to make this sign showing spring flowers - daffodils, snowdrops and primroses with a 7 spotted ladybird on one of the flower heads. Painted by Rosemary Hitchman

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House sign with Seagull and anchor motifs

Our customer saw a similar design that I painted a few years ago and asked for the same, just a simple seagull and an anchor.

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Oval House Sign with bridge pictorial

Our customer from Ireland asked us to creat a house sign with a Gaelic house name and a gaelic font depicting a hump back bridge. Painted by our house signs landscape artist

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House Plaques with Border Collies design

Our customer from Holland asked for this 18 inch wide by 8 inch high classic rectangle base plaque painted with a pictorial of three black and white border collies. Painted by our animal portrait artist

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House Signs depicting sprigs of Lavender

Our customer requseted this 10.25 inch by 8.25 inch classic oval with this font called Vinque and two sprigs of lavender. Painted by Rosemary Hitchman

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Tropical beach house sign

Our Customer asked us to make this 14.5 inch by 10 inch classic oval sign depicting a tropical beach with 3 palm trees. Painted by our seascape artist

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Kingfisher House Name Sign

Our customer sent us an image of this kingfisher and asked for a large rustic slate base plaque with the house name KINGFISHER arching along the top and the exact pictorial of the bird holding a fish in its beak. Another life-like bird hand painted by our wildlife artist . Birders - if you would like a favourite image of a bird you have photographed hand painted onto a house plaque or onto canvas to hang on your wall, send it to us as an email attachment and we will be happy to give you a quotation.

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