Custom house portrait postcards of the house you actually live in.

One straight-on shot of the front of the house in good light does most of the work — mid-morning or late afternoon, taken from across the street or the end of the driveway so the whole facade fits in frame. Then send anything else you love: a favorite angle, the front door, the porch, the tree in the yard, a window box. Three or four photos is plenty. You email them to us after you place the order.

Usually fine. We are illustrating the house, not retouching a photo, so a parked car, an overgrown hedge, or a branch across the roofline can be worked around or left out entirely — tell us what you want kept and what you want gone. If the photos genuinely don't show enough of the house to draw it accurately, we'll email you and ask for one more shot before we start. Nobody gets stuck with a portrait of a shrub.

Your first proof lands in 3-5 business days from the day we have your photos. After you send revision notes, the final files follow shortly after. That is considerably faster than the multi-week schedules typical of custom illustrated house-portrait announcements.

Yes, as many as you want. You get a print-ready PDF with no watermark and no per-copy fee, so you can print five for the family or a hundred and fifty for the whole address book — at home, at a local print shop, or through any online printer. Take the PDF to whoever prints your cards.

The postcard is 6x4 inches — US standard postcard size — at 300 DPI, delivered as a print-ready 2-page PDF: the illustrated front on page one, the classic writing side with address lines and a stamp box on page two. You also get the house illustration on its own as a high-resolution PNG, big enough to frame or reuse.

Not as part of the $100 — that price covers the artwork and the digital files. Printing a physical stack, or printing and mailing to your address list, is arranged separately: tell us the quantity through our contact form and we'll come back with a quote.

Yes, for personal use. The high-resolution illustration file is yours — frame it, print it on notecards, use it as a phone background, send it to family. That's exactly why we deliver the artwork as a standalone file and not just baked into the postcard PDF. If you want to use it commercially — a realtor putting it on marketing material, for example — just tell us up front so we can note it on the order.

One round. Send your notes on the proof in one go — the roof color, the door, the shutters, the wording on the front — and we make those changes and deliver the final files. Most orders never need a second round; if yours does, we'll quote it honestly rather than quietly bill you.

No. The maker at /postcards/maker is automated and instant: you personalize a design, optionally have your photo illustrated into it, and download a PDF in minutes for $6.99 to $19.99. This is a studio service — a person illustrates your specific house from your photos, builds the postcard around that artwork, and sends you a proof to react to, plus the standalone illustration file. Different products, honestly priced for what each one is.