A beautiful hand-drawn house portrait based on a photo or web link - a family house, holiday home or your first property.This stunning, full colour contemporary house portrait has a muted colour palette and graphic black linework to illustrate the building.Each illustration is personalised with a printed message in a choice of typeface. The text will be printed on two lines, the top line being slightly larger (eg: The Orchards / 15 Lane End, Bideford, Devon). How to provide a photoSend us your photo - either upload with the order or email it to info@letterfest.com. Or we can work from an image on a website, just send us the link. Or use Google Street View - Go to Google.com, click on ‘Maps’ and enter the address. Click on the street view of the road or drag the yellow stick man onto the map. Use the pointers to locate your house. When you have a good view, click the link icon, copy the link and send it to us.What do you draw? We sketch from the perspective in the photograph and won’t include satellite dishes, dustbins etc - let us know anything specific in your enquiry. The illustration is coloured in our painterly watercolour style and digitally printed. It’s a simplified drawing but if you want more detail please order our ‘Detailed portrait’. The drawing will be portrait or landscape that best suits the image. We colour the house and leave the windows white. The focus is on the house but we also colour the sky duck-egg blue, the grass a sage green, paths stones grey etc. Bright paintwork such as front doors or painted concrete will also coloured. We cannot include people in the drawing, we can include cars and pets for an extra fee.If you\'ve asked for a digital proof, your illustration will be sent to you via email for you to check.Want another style? See our other listings for house portraits, pencil sketches and detailed drawings. We also draw pets, people, sports stadiums, favourite places…made from:Hand-drawn house portrait illustration coloured on the computer for lovely solid lines and digitally printed in a graphic, contemporary style with solid block colours on 200gsm acid free, fine grain artists paper.All illustrations are provided in a bevelled white mount. Framing: 2cm wide wooden frames in bevelled black and white and oak. 3cm wide frames in distressed black and white and flat white. All frames supplied with mdf backing board, integrated hanging hook, and Pilkington glass except extra large frames which are glazed with high grade Quinn perspex for safe delivery.Dimensions:Small - 25.5 x 25.5cm (10x10\") with an approx. image size of 15x15cm (6x6\")Large - 25.5x30.5cm (10\"x12\") with an approx. image size of 14x20cm (6\"x8\")Extra Large (shown in the main image) - 38.8x38.8cm approx.(15\"x15\") with an approx. image size of 28x28cm (11\"x11\")