The Branded Office Wall Art People Photograph on the Way In
There is one wall in every office that never earns its keep. The blank stretch by reception, the flat span above the couch nobody sits on, the hallway people walk past a thousand times without once looking up. A branded office wall art piece built from real retired skis and snowboards fixes that wall in about the most Colorado way possible. It turns the dead space into the thing visitors photograph on the way in, and it does it with your logo holding its exact shape, not a brush’s best guess. That is the whole idea behind the Branded Ski & Snowboard Office Murals from Colorado Ski Chairs, hand built in Manitou Springs and shipped nationwide.
The Wall Everyone Photographs on the Way In
Walk into most lobbies and you get the same three things. A logo sign in a font somebody paid too much for, a fake plant, and a wall color chosen by committee. Nobody stops. Nobody pulls out a phone. The space says the company exists, and not much else. Now picture the same entryway with a run of real snowboards mounted edge to edge, a mountain range painted across them in the light of a late afternoon, and the company mark floated clean over the ridge line. People stop. They actually read the wall. And more than a few of them take a picture, which is the part the marketing team pretends not to care about while quietly caring a great deal.
That is not a happy accident. It is the reason this piece exists. A branded office wall art installation gives a room a story before a single person says hello. It tells a visitor what the place values, where it comes from, and whether it has a sense of humor, all in the two seconds it takes to cross a lobby. For a company that sells adventure, hospitality, gear, real estate near the mountains, or just wants its people to feel like they work somewhere with a pulse, that is a lot of work done by one wall. The old sign never pulled that off. It just sat there being a sign.
What a Branded Office Wall Art Piece Actually Is
Under the paint, this is a piece of furniture-grade craft, not a printed banner. Colorado Ski Chairs builds each office mural from real retired skis and snowboards, the same gear that carried somebody down a mountain for years before it was too soft to ride. The boards are cleaned up, cut to fit, and mounted as one continuous piece so the finished wall reads as a single artwork rather than a pile of parts. The old top-sheet graphics and the honest wear stay part of the character. This is reclaimed gear given a second job, and it looks like exactly what it is.
How many boards go into one piece depends entirely on the wall. A tidy panel over a reception desk is a different animal than a twelve-foot statement across a conference room, so the shop scopes the count to the size and the design rather than pretending there is a one-size answer. It always takes more real gear than people expect, which is part of why it looks substantial instead of thin. When you call to talk it through, that is one of the first things the shop nails down: the wall dimensions, the board count, and the layout that makes the scene land.
Because it is built from real skis and boards on a solid backing, an office mural like this has heft and depth a poster cannot fake. Light catches the edges of the decks. The surface is not flat. Stand close and you can see it was made by hand, by people who know the difference between something built to last and something built to fill a purchase order.
How the Logo Goes On, and Why It Is Never Painted
Here is the part that separates a real branded piece from a nice try. The scene gets hand painted. The logo does not. A mountain range, a resort profile, a run somebody in the office knows by name, your brand colors washed across the boards, all of that is painted by hand in exterior oils by the shop’s own artists. A brand mark is a different problem. A logo has exact colors and exact geometry, and a brush, even a very good one, will get close instead of perfect. Close is not good enough for a mark that shows up on your business cards and your building.
So the logo goes on as a logo decal floated onto the painted background, which holds the exact shape and the exact color every time. If you want the mark to stand off the surface with a little dimension, aluminum appliques and plastic appliques are alternatives, each priced differently, and the logo can sit on the front or the back depending on the layout. The result is a hand painted scene with a machine-crisp mark riding on top, which is the honest way to do it. Anybody who promises to hand paint your logo perfectly is either very brave or about to disappoint you.
This matters more than it sounds. This piece is representing your company to everyone who walks in. The scene can be loose and artful, because that is what makes it feel handmade. The mark has to be tight, because that is what makes it feel like you. Getting both right in the same piece is the trick, and it is the reason the shop does it this way instead of the easy way.
Branded Ski & Snowboard Office Murals
Where a Branded Office Mural Belongs
The obvious home is the lobby, and it is obvious for a reason. Reception is the first handshake, and a branded office wall art piece does a lot of the talking before your front desk says a word. But the lobby is not the only wall that wants one. A conference room mural gives clients something to look at that is not a whiteboard covered in last quarter’s numbers, and it photographs well in the background of every video call, which in a remote-heavy world is free brand exposure nobody budgeted for.
Entryways and hallways are the quiet winners. That long blank corridor between the elevator and the office door is prime real estate, and right now it is doing nothing. A break room is another good candidate, because a wall that says the company has some soul goes further with the people who eat lunch under it every day than another motivational poster ever will. Showrooms, dealerships, tasting rooms, and hospitality spaces all use these as anchor pieces, the thing a guest remembers and describes to a friend later. Even an outdoor wall works, since the whole piece is built to live outside, which we will get to.
The point is that an office mural like this is not decoration you hang and forget. It is a working part of the room. It sets the tone, it starts conversations, and it does both every single day without anyone having to run a campaign. That is a rare thing to buy once and keep getting value from for years.
The Scene Is Yours to Choose
Nothing about this piece is off a shelf, which is the good news and the reason it takes a conversation to get right. The scene is entirely yours. Companies pick a recognizable mountain range, the profile of a resort their team actually skis, a specific run with a name that means something inside the building, or a clean wash of brand colors that reads more abstract and modern. Some want a full landscape with alpenglow and aspens. Some want something spare and graphic. The shop’s artists have painted enough of these to know how to make a scene work at the size of a wall instead of the size of a canvas, which is a different skill than most people realize.
Beyond the scene, the choices stack up in your favor. If you want the mark to glow, ask about integrated backlighting, which turns the piece into a lit feature after the overhead lights go down. If you want the logo built from the same material as the wall, laser-cut logos made from upcycled skis and snowboards are an option, so the mark is literally cut from the story. Custom hand painting runs about $75 an hour, quoted before anyone lifts a brush, so you know the number going in. Tell the shop what you are picturing, and if you are not sure what you are picturing, tell them that too. Half the good ones start as a rough idea and a phone call.
The base product and size are what you select to start, listed at $695 for the piece itself. From there, the branded work depends on your mark, the finish you choose, and the size of the wall, which is why it is quoted rather than pinned to a sticker. More on how that works in a minute.
Built to Live Indoors or Out
A lot of wall art is quietly fragile. Sun fades it, humidity warps it, and a covered patio is out of the question. This is not that. The scene is painted in high quality exterior oils, the same paints the shop uses on pieces that sit outside through Colorado winters, so a branded office wall art installation holds its color whether it lives in a climate-controlled lobby or on the exterior wall of a mountain lodge. Weather is not the enemy here. The piece was built assuming weather would show up.
That opens doors most indoor art cannot. A resort can hang one on a covered entry where guests walk in from the cold. A brewery can put one on the patio wall behind the picnic tables. A dealership can mount one on the service-bay wall that faces the lot. The material is reclaimed ski and snowboard gear, which spent its whole first life getting rained on, snowed on, and dragged through spring slush, so durability is baked into the bones of it. This is furniture-grade construction wearing an artwork, not a decoration hoping for good weather.
Longevity is part of the value math too. A printed banner or a vinyl wall graphic looks tired in a couple of years and gets replaced. A hand painted piece built from real gear in exterior oils is the kind of thing that is still on the wall, still sharp, when the company has moved offices twice. Spread the cost over that many years and the per-year number stops looking like decor and starts looking like a smart line item.
Who Orders These
The list is broader than you would guess. Ski shops and outdoor brands are naturals, since the material and the message line up without any explaining. Breweries and tasting rooms order them because they want a wall that reads as local and unpretentious. Resorts, lodges, and hospitality groups use them as guest-facing anchor pieces, the wall that ends up in a hundred vacation photos and, quietly, a hundred social posts the property never had to pay for. Real estate offices, especially the ones selling mountain-town property, hang them behind the front desk because they instantly say we are from here and we get it.
Then there are the event and trade show teams, and this is where a piece like this really earns its name. A booth wall that is a real hand painted mural on reclaimed boards does the one thing a pop-up banner never can. It makes people stop, pull out a phone, and take a picture, badge or no badge. In a hall full of retractable banners and folding tables, the booth with a mural is the one attendees remember on the drive home and mention to a colleague the next week. That is brand experience you cannot rent, and it travels back to the office afterward as a lobby piece, so it works twice.
Dealerships, gyms, corporate campuses, and family businesses round out the regulars. The common thread is not an industry. It is a company that wants a space with character instead of another leather couch and a stock print, and would rather spend the money once on something built by hand than three times on something built to be thrown away.
How Ordering and Pricing Work
Ordering a branded office wall art piece starts with a base selection and ends with a conversation, in that order. You pick the base product and size to get things moving, and you mention the logo in your order notes. From there the shop calls you to work through the artwork, the placement, and the finish before anything gets built, because a branded piece has too many real decisions in it to guess. Which mark, which colors, which scene, decal or applique, front or back, backlighting or not. None of that should be assumed, and the shop does not assume it.
On price, the honest version is this. The base piece is listed at $695, and that is a real starting point for the product and size. The branded work on top of it depends on your mark, the finish, and the wall size, so it is quoted rather than listed, and custom hand painting is billed at about $75 an hour, quoted up front. That is not a dodge. It is the only fair way to price something where a small single-color logo on a modest panel and a full mural with an applique mark and backlighting across a conference wall are genuinely different jobs. Call and the shop will price yours properly rather than making you back into a number that was never going to fit.
Production usually runs two to four weeks, sometimes a little more for the ambitious builds, and the shop can often work with a real deadline if you have one, so ask. Everything is made to order in Manitou Springs, Colorado, and ships nationwide to the lower 48. When you are ready to talk it through, the number is 303.775.7273, and starting with a phone call instead of a checkout is not just allowed here, it is encouraged.
Why Colorado Ski Chairs
There are cheaper ways to put a logo on a wall. There are faster ones too. What there is not a cheaper, faster version of is a hand built piece made from real retired gear by a small Colorado shop that has been doing exactly this long enough to be good at it. Colorado Ski Chairs builds every branded office wall art piece in Manitou Springs, by hand, from reclaimed skis and snowboards, and finishes it in the same weatherproof oils it trusts on furniture that lives outdoors year round. That is not a marketing story bolted on afterward. It is just how the work gets done.
The sustainability angle is real and worth saying plainly. This is gear that would otherwise be landfill, given a second life as something a company is proud to show off. Made in the USA, built from reclaimed material, and durable enough to outlast several rounds of whatever the disposable-decor crowd is selling this year. If a company cares about where its stuff comes from, and more of them do every year, a hand built office mural is a much better answer than another crate of imported swag.
And then there is the simplest reason. It looks great, it lasts, and it is unmistakably yours. A wall built from real boards, painted by hand, wearing your mark clean and sharp, is the kind of thing people assume cost a fortune and took connections to commission. It did not. It took a phone call to a shop in Manitou Springs that likes this kind of work.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is a branded office wall art piece really made from real skis and snowboards?
Yes. Colorado Ski Chairs builds each office mural from real retired skis and snowboards, cleaned up and mounted as one continuous piece, then hand paints the scene in exterior oils. It is reclaimed gear, not a printed panel or a vinyl graphic.
Will my logo be hand painted?
No, and that is on purpose. The scene is hand painted, but the logo goes on as a logo decal floated onto the painted background so it holds its exact color and shape. Aluminum and plastic appliques are alternatives if you want dimension, front or back. A brush cannot promise the precision a brand mark needs, so the shop does not fake it.
How much does a branded office mural cost?
The base product and size start at $695. The branded work on top depends on your mark, the finish, and the wall size, so it is quoted on a call, and custom hand painting runs about $75 an hour, quoted up front. Call 303.775.7273 and the shop will price your piece properly.
Can it go on an outdoor wall?
Yes. The piece is finished in high quality exterior oils and built from gear that spent its first life outdoors, so it holds up indoors or out, including covered patios and exterior entry walls. Weather was part of the plan from the start.
Give the Blank Wall a Job
Somewhere in your building there is a wall doing nothing, and a logo sign that everyone stopped noticing years ago. A branded office wall art piece from Colorado Ski Chairs turns that wall into the first thing people photograph and the last thing they forget, built by hand from real retired skis and snowboards with your mark riding crisp on top. Browse the Branded Ski & Snowboard Office Murals, look through more branded and office solutions or the wider wall art collection for ideas, then call 303.775.7273 and tell the shop about your wall. Worst case, you get a piece people cannot stop taking pictures of. There are worse problems to have.
