13 May 2026 · Pricing

How much does a mural cost?

The honest answer is that mural pricing is a range, and the range is wide. Most projects we quote in 2026 land between £800 and £15,000, with the bulk in the £2,000 to £6,000 band. The reason a quote moves inside that range is rarely a mystery once you know the five levers. Here they are, plus three real-world example projects and how to get a price for your own wall inside 24 hours.

Typical price bands (2026)

Interior, hand-painted, design and mock-up included:

• Small (up to 4m²): £800 to £2,000
• Medium (4 to 12m²): £2,000 to £5,000
• Large (12 to 30m²): £5,000 to £10,000
• Statement (30m² and up): £10,000 and up

For exterior, weatherproofed walls, add roughly 25 to 40 percent to the equivalent interior band. South Africa typically prices at 40 to 60 percent of London for the same scope, though complexity and travel can flip that.

These bands include design, mock-up, paint, application, and a set of professional photographs of the finished piece. They do not include scaffolding, cherry-picker hire, council fees, or out-of-city travel and accommodation.

Most people only ask about price. The more useful question is "what changes the price", because that's the one you can do something about.

What actually moves the quote

1. Size

The single biggest lever. Most of the cost is artist days, and bigger walls take more days. Doubling the surface area usually adds 60 to 80 percent to the cost rather than 100 percent, because setup, design, and mock-up are fixed costs you amortise across the piece.

2. Complexity

A flat, one-colour bubble-letter throw is faster than a layered illustrative piece with portraits, gradients, and fine line work. If your reference looks like a poster, expect poster pricing. If it looks closer to a museum painting, expect that too. Most briefs land somewhere in between, which is why the band is wide.

3. Surface

Smooth painted plaster or render takes paint cleanly and quickly. Old brick, weathered concrete, corrugated metal, and tile-clad walls need prep, primer, or both. Prep can add half a day to two days depending on size and condition. We always check the wall on site before pricing exteriors.

4. Access

• Ground-floor interior: cheapest.
• Stairs and tight corridors: small surcharge for moving kit.
• Anything above 3 metres: needs a tower, scaffolding, or a cherry picker. Add £300 to £1,500 per day depending on equipment.
• Night work or before-opening hours: night-rate surcharge.

5. Interior versus exterior

Exteriors cost more for three reasons. Weatherproof paints and clear coats are pricier. Prep is heavier because outdoor surfaces have weathered. And the schedule has to flex around weather, so we price in a buffer for a likely rain day. A planned two-day exterior often becomes three after one bad afternoon.

What you're actually paying for

A quote looks like one number but covers six things:

• Design time. Concept, sketch, and mock-up overlaid on a photo of your space.
• Materials. Paint, primer, masking, drop sheets, and weather coatings where needed.
• Artist day rate multiplied by the number of paint days.
• Equipment like ladders, towers, and where required, scaffolding or a cherry picker.
• Travel and accommodation if the wall is outside London or one of our South African home cities.
• Day-of photography. A set of edited photographs of the finished piece, delivered in JPEG and WebP.

Most clients ask "why isn't it cheaper" when they only see line one. Most of them stop asking once they've watched a wall get prepped, sketched, masked, and painted across 12 hours.

Three example projects

Representative jobs at three different price points, lightly anonymised. Yours will be different, but the shape of the maths will be similar.

£1,800, Hackney living room

A 4m² interior feature wall on smooth painted plaster. One artist, one day on site, tight pre-approved brief. No scaffolding, no prep beyond a wipe-down. Mock-up landed first try, which is what kept it at the bottom of the small-wall band.

£4,400, Greenwich café

A 12m² interior feature wall on brick, with prep and primer. Two artists, two paint days. Brand colours had to be matched and the headline phrase rendered in the café's tone of voice. Two rounds of mock-up. Photography delivered the morning of opening.

£14,500, Camden gable wall

A 60m² exterior gable wall, weatherproofed. Two-week scaffolding hire, three artists, four paint days plus one weather buffer day. Required council notification (not a planning application) and a heavier prep round on the existing render. Photographed at golden hour the day after sign-off.

For more on how long each of these timelines really takes once you factor in design and weather, read how long a mural takes to paint.

How to keep cost down without compromising the wall

• Send a tight brief on day one. Vague briefs cost design days. Our seven-line briefing template is what we'd want to receive.
• Be flexible on dates. If we can slot you between bigger jobs, it's cheaper for everyone.
• Pick a wall that's already in good condition. Prep is real money. A freshly skimmed wall paints faster than a forty-year-old brick.
• Cap revisions at two rounds. If the brief is good, two is enough. Three is usually a sign someone new joined the decision.
• Skip the scaffolding if a safer wall works. A ground-floor wall that lands the same idea will save you £1,000 in kit hire.

How to get a real price fast

Send us a message on WhatsApp. We respond within 24 hours, usually with a band, often with a rough sketch attached. The band tightens once we either visit the wall or, for remote jobs, see a few photos with a tape measure in shot for scale.

The minimum we need to give you a useful number:

• A photo of the wall
• Approximate dimensions
• Interior or exterior
• Your deadline
• A budget range, even a wide one, so we design to it from day one

That's it. The rest we figure out together.