What to charge for patterned fine art?

I have done some patterned painting within my home and some of my friends, but have never charged them. I own now be asked to paint a commercial location and they will pay me. I am not sure what to charge. The space is approximately 350 square foot, but includes several small locations, i.e. over doors and windows, etc. The process will be a 2 or 3 color "mottling" and I anticipate at most minuscule 60 hours for the project. I am not a professional, but she likes my work. I do not want to over charge her, but at like peas in a pod time, do not want to sell myself short. Any push for?


Answers:    We had a ornate painter redo our kitchen cabinet. It cost about $3500. We are getting primed to have our living room and entry agency repainted in one color. It is a space of roughly 1600 square feet of painted surface. We hold a quote from a very apposite painter to do the work for $1000 plus materials. I'm guessing he will take just about two days to do the prep and painting.

If you reckon it will take 60 hours, after it will probably be more like 80 hours. At $35 an hour, that would be somewhere between $2100 and $2800.

You might consider offering to do the undertaking for something like $4000 near the understanding that you will decline the price for every hour under 80 that it take at a rate of $25.

One final idea. Have you simply asked some local painter what they charge per hour? I have guess $35 but it could efficiently be $50.
Oil Field Trash has a appropriate idea. How something like this: Tell her you'd charge $2500. Then tell her if she'll put a small TASTEFUL plaque fundamental it with your given name and phone, you'll do it for $1500.

Or, another way is to charge her full price, and afterwards you'll pay her $50 for every referral that hires you.
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