About The House Portrait
The House Portrait creates personalized house and building portraits from your photos, turning meaningful places into custom artwork that can be enjoyed for years to come.
From family homes and first apartments to cafés, restaurants, storefronts, offices, wedding venues and other special buildings, we create portraits that celebrate the places connected to your favorite memories and milestones.
Our Story
The House Portrait, a custom portrait studio founded by artist and architect Andreea (that's me, Hi!), founded in 2019, it has grown from a small creative studio into an online business creating personalized artwork for customers around the world.
The idea behind our studio started with something simple: buildings are much more than structures.
The house where you grew up. The first home you bought together. Your parents' and grandparents' house. The little coffee shop you finally opened. The restaurant your family built. The place where you got married.
Architecture becomes part of our stories, and we wanted to create a way of preserving those places through art.
What began as a small studio idea has grown into an online business creating personalized artwork for customers around the world.
What We Create
We specialize in custom house portraits and personalized building portraits created from customer photos.
And despite our name, The House Portrait isn't only about houses.
We can create portraits of many types of properties and meaningful places, including:
- Family homes and first homes
- Apartment buildings
- Vacation homes and cabins
- Farmhouses and barns
- Coffee shops and cafés
- Restaurants and bars
- Storefronts and boutiques
- Offices and commercial buildings
- Hotels and vacation properties
- Churches and places of worship
- Schools and universities
- Wedding venues
- Historic buildings
- Family businesses
- Other buildings and places that hold a special meaning
You provide the photograph, and we transform the place in it into personalized artwork.
Our Portrait Styles
Different places — and different people — call for different styles.
Our custom portrait collection includes several artistic approaches, including Watercolor, Traditional Watercolor, Black & White Sketch, and Colored Line Doodle portraits.
Some are soft and painterly. Some are clean and architectural. Others are playful and colorful.
Whichever style you choose, the goal remains the same: to capture the recognizable character of the original place while creating artwork that feels personal to you.
Digital or Professionally Printed
We offer both high-resolution digital portraits and professionally printed physical artwork.
Choose a digital portrait if you'd like the flexibility to download your artwork and print it yourself or through a local printing service.
If you'd rather receive the finished piece, you can choose one of our physical print options and we'll take care of the printing and delivery for you.
For physical orders, we also provide a digital proof before the portrait goes into production, giving you the opportunity to review your artwork first.
Made for the Places That Matter
Our portraits are often created to celebrate important moments in people's lives.
They have become housewarming gifts, realtor closing gifts, first-home gifts, wedding and anniversary gifts, moving-away gifts, retirement gifts, memorial pieces, business anniversary gifts, and artwork created simply because someone wants to remember a place they love.
But there doesn't need to be a special occasion.
Sometimes a place is reason enough.
What Makes The House Portrait Different
Architecture meets art.
With an artistic direction shaped by a background in both architecture and art, we pay particular attention to the details that make each building recognizable.
Created from your own photograph.
Every portrait begins with a photo supplied by you, allowing us to create artwork around a place that is genuinely personal.
More than houses.
Houses may have inspired our name, but our portraits can celebrate businesses, restaurants, cafés, offices, venues, schools, churches and many other meaningful buildings.
Digital and physical options.
Choose the convenience of a high-resolution digital file or let us handle the printing and deliver a finished physical piece.
A personal process.
Custom artwork shouldn't feel like buying something off a shelf. We want the experience of creating your portrait to feel just as considered as the finished artwork.
We Also Don't Like Waiting
There's another thing you should probably know about us.
We're restless, impatient, and absolutely allergic to unnecessarily long delivery times.
It's one of the reasons we originally fell in love with digital portraits: you can receive your finished artwork quickly, download it, and decide exactly how and where you'd like to print it.
But we also understand that sometimes you don't want another item on your to-do list.
That's why we offer professionally printed physical portraits too. You choose the artwork and format, and we take care of the rest.
So whether you're team digital download or you'd rather have your portrait printed and delivered, we've got you covered.
We still believe good things can take time.
We just don't think your house portrait needs to.
The Idea Behind It All
At the heart of The House Portrait is a belief we've carried with us from the beginning:
A place shapes you, and you shape it back.
The buildings in our lives quietly become part of who we are.
Our job is to help you preserve them.
Have a Place in Mind?
If you have a house, business, building or meaningful place you'd like transformed into custom artwork, get in touch with The House Portrait and tell us about it.
We're always happy to help which portrait style or format will work best for your case. Reach out today to discuss your vision or to inquire more about our process. We're excited to work with you.
Thank You