Let’s talk about watermarking!

We are often emailed by our lovely clients asking to have some of the images we have taken of our walls without our watermark. We can understand why – people want to start promoting and showing off their gorgeous wall straight away!

But we’ve had a policy for a while now that we don’t send out un-watermarked images. So why do we do this?

Well, a long time ago when we started making flower walls, we sold them without the logos on, and to be frank, our images got copied and used for other companies benefits. Countless times we have seen our images on Alibaba, other flower wall company websites, photo shopped into to promotional shots and more. Thankfully, since we have become vigilant about watermarking, we don’t tend to see any of our newer stuff out there, but that doesn’t stop people trying!

We even know that some businesses on Alibaba send out our images to customers pretending them to be their own. We categorically do not sell via Alibaba, nor do factories create our walls. Here’s some prime examples of our flower walls that we created a few years ago being mis-represented on various sites as if it is their own work:

And of course, as it is quite well known that if the images are stolen such as the ones above, the flower wall you receive will not be the same as the image! Of course watermarks can altered and removed, but it’s a lot of more difficult and time consuming to do so, so acts as a fabulous deterrent.

Even here, you can see our old water mark just under the one from the company that has stolen our image, and beneath that you can see the actual flower wall you will be sent. It is totally different and if we are honest, a much lower quality:

 

 

These are just some examples of our images have been used – we also see our flower walls from our lovely clients being used by other businesses pretending it is there own. Frequently we see this on Facebook and Instagram so it really pays to watermark your images to protect your work!

We can’t control what un-watermarked images customers take of the walls themselves, but we definitely recommend applying a watermark to all your images or you too could find your hard work and design talents being used by other companies pretending it is their own.

If you can’t wait to take the images of the wall yourself, we are happy for you to either send us your watermark, or if you don’t have one, we can simply write your company name in a font of your choice across the image!

 

 

 

 

Christmas is coming! 

Our winter sale continues through the festive period, and you can purchase any flower wall you see on our website by adding it to your basket and checking out – it’s as easy at that!

Whilst our website is 24/7, we unfortunately are not! We will have some restricted hours and closures during Christmas and New Year period, simply meaning we might take a little bit longer than usual to get back to you.

Our hours over the holiday season are:

22nd December – 3rd January: Limited access to emails, but we will always try to respond as quickly as we can. We can still answer any questions you have, create invoices for custom orders and accept new orders via our website.

25th/26th December & 1st January: Closed. Sorry, even creators of amazing walls need to have a few days off!

If you have any questions about current or new orders, simply email us info@theflowerwallcompany.com and we will be happy to help!

We wish all our customers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and here’s to gorgeous florals for 2017!

 

 

 

Who’s who in the flower wall world! With more and more flower wall rental and sales companies popping up, it can be hard to distinguish not only between quality, method and location, but also which company is which.

As more businesses come into the mix, we’ve noticed a lot of similar named companies which can be confusing for everyone involved – both businesses and customers a like! We have received inquiries from customers quoting other businesses prices or products so we are the same is happening in reverse!

We don’t have any affiliated or associated companies anywhere in the world, meaning even companies that put a city, area or region name in amongst ‘The Flower Wall Company’ are not linked to us in any way, example – ‘The Timbuktu Flower Wall Company’.

We have also maintained that we provide a higher end product, and we certainly do not resell Alibaba products, nor do we use the flowers as seen in the image below. We’ve been extremely vocal about Alibaba in the past and you can read our blog posts about it here, here and here. We are not about mass produced low quality products, and have never made claims to be ‘cheap’ – and that is reflected in our client list, the quality or our blooms, workmanship and pricing

There is a market for everyone, but we want to be clear about who we are as a company and the product we sell. If you have any questions about dealing with The Flower Wall Company, please email us info@theflowerwallcompany.com and we will be happy to talk through options and walls.

 

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Not all flower walls are created equal! As with any product, whether it’s flower walls, cars, chocolate or even hair cuts, there’s a varying range of pricing, styling and quality. Buying a flower wall is a relatively easy process, and we may have been one of the first companies to do it, but now there are lots of vendors to choose from so it can be tricky distinguishing whose work is what.

In this social media age, images get posted and reposted without you ever really knowing who was behind the creation. The good news for our lovely customers is that if you check our Instagram feed, you can see pretty much all our range and goings on, and we only ever repost or post our own work, so you can guarantee the quality and styling.

We really want to put some distance between our designs and many other ones you can see popping up on social media, all of them created by other large factory wholesalers in China. We’d like to take this opportunity to say these walls are not our work, and we would never work with these low quality of flowers, or send out a flower wall with so many gaps, poor colour choices or low aesthetics! Why are we doing this? Well we know some other vendors here have been claiming our work as their own, claiming the product is the same, or even going as far as to claim they are our supplier and we simply resell their product. All 100% untrue, but that’s the nature of business here! So we wanted to put a few facts out there to throw some light on the shade.

We’ve been creating walls for three years now, and the blooms used in the above walls were what we started out with, but quickly moved away from when we were unhappy with the quality and design. The hydrangea especially that is used in these walls has small petals that fall off and fray easily in our experience! And that wasn’t acceptable to us so we now use a larger leaf from a better material that not only has more stems per head, but is also in a better cream tone.

We now custom design and colour a lot of our florals because we have a passion for delivering a high quality product that has the wow factor. And of course there’s the old adage that if you’re going to something, you might as do it well! We also use on average 70% more blooms per panel than the above designs, we don’t like to see gaps in our backdrops.

If you have any concerns about buying a flower wall, simply drop us an email and we’d be happy to help, or check our Instagram feed and if the wall you’ve seen elsewhere isn’t there, then most likely, it’s not our work!

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