Bee-Themed Multi-Colour Metal House Sign
A Welsh couple asked us to make a metal house name sign for their Spanish home. With a close association to bees, they wanted to reflect this in their sign.
Important considerations included using both the Spanish and Welsh names of the house, the customers’ design layout and colour ideas, sizing the sign to fit one of the white porch pillars of the house, and the effects of Spanish weather on the sign’s durability.
They were also keen to find a sign maker from their local area in Wales who could transform their sketch and description into a sign for them to collect the day before flying back to Spain, so our willingness to fully involve customers in the design process to create complex metalwork to specific deadlines was the perfect match for them.
We based our design on the customers’ own sketch and description as well as inspirations drawn from our own experiences of bees and beehives. After agreeing initial design sketches with the customers we converted the artwork to cut well on our CNC plasma cutter.
We chose to make this house sign from 3mm cold reduced mild steel and mild steel stud fixings, protected by baked-on zinc rich primer and coloured gloss polyester powder coats. These materials gave us the opportunity to create a good looking, durable sign that could be easily disassembled for painting as necessary, and also to be creative and playful with the design and colours.
Customer: Private householder
Purpose: House name sign
Location: Outdoor, inland, strong sun
Style guide: Colourful, playful, whimsical, classic
Image/s: Designed by Ravens’ Way from customer sketch and description
Font/s: Classic, capitals
Shape: Rectangular, 11.5 mm radius corners
Size: 465mm wide x 285mm tall
Colour/s: Black, yellow
Finish/es: High gloss powder coat over zinc-rich primer
Etching/engraving: No
Backlit: No
Material/s: Mild steel
Thickness: 3 mm x 2
Construction: 2 layers
Mounting: 4 holes
Delivery: Collected from our Caernarfon Crafts Fair stall, Market Hall
It’s brilliant, thank you!
Gallery
Customers’ sketch for multi-coloured bee-themed bilingual metal house sign
Ravens’ Way’s final design for multi-coloured bee-themed bilingual metal house sign
Completed two colour metal house sign
Closeup of two layer construction
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