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Four ESTART compass roses in black, gold and copper hung in a row on a sand-colored wall

Cut steel · 8 subjects · 122 pieces

Metal wall art, sized to the wall it goes on

ESTART cuts flat steel into signs, ridgelines, compass roses and garden borders, and the same workshop turns out a short run of display boards, wall coverings and tabletop pieces. The hard part is never the picture — it is guessing how big the thing should be. Wherever a listing gives a measurement it is quoted here as the longest side, and the planner below turns a wall measurement into an answer.

Size a piece for my wallBrowse all 8 subjects
122pieces listed
$5.99–$229.99price range
5.6–71 inlongest side, smallest to widest
17,276ratings behind them

What the workshop makes

The catalog splits by subject rather than by room, because the same ridgeline works over a sofa or over a bed — what changes is only how wide it needs to be. The last two sections are the odd ones out, and they say so on the tile.

Word Signs & Letters

Phrases, scripture, single initials and house numbers, cut out of sheet metal.

35 pieces

Floral, Mandala & Line Art

Roses, olive branches, lotus mandalas and single-line faces.

26 pieces

Mountains & Forest

Ridgelines, pine stands and layered horizon panels.

15 pieces

Wildlife & Woodland

Deer, bears, eagles, birds and one pair of pets in cut steel.

15 pieces

Nautical & Coastal

Compass roses in two diameters, and four-piece canoe paddle sets.

10 pieces

Garden & Outdoor

Wind spinners and fence borders for the yard rather than the wall.

13 pieces

Boards & Wall Coverings

Magnetic display boards, border trim, a peel-and-stick mural and a woven hanging.

5 pieces

Home & Garden Extras

Three pieces that never touch a wall: a table pair, a coop stand, a craft kit.

3 pieces

Best rated in each subject

Three from every section, ordered by how they are rated rather than by price. Where several colorways share one listing they also share one rating — only one of them shows up here.

What size should the piece be?

Measure the wall, or the sofa or bed the art will hang over, and this works backwards to the size that will look right.

How many pieces
Gap between them

Why a compass rose keeps turning up

Four of them sit on the banner at the top of this page, and the catalog lists 7 in two diameters. It is not an accident of taste: a compass rose is the shape laser cutting was made for. It is radially symmetrical, so it hangs level on one hook and reads correctly from any seat in the room, and it is mostly holes, so the wall behind it does half the work.

We wrote the long version — the eight points, the two diameters, what changes between the finishes — on its own page.

Read about the compass rose

What the range covers

  • $5.99 and upA short cut-steel phrase is the cheapest thing in the catalog and the easiest to hang: light pieces, a nail apiece.
  • Sets of two to eightPhrases split across panels, paddle fans, fence borders sold by the run. You set the spacing, so you set the final width.
  • Up to 71 inchesThe four-panel mountain ranges are sofa-width. Measure before ordering — this is the size people get wrong.
  • Indoors and outMost pieces are rated for both; the wind spinners and fence borders are meant for the yard only.

Hanging cut metal without regretting it

Flat steel art is light — most of this catalog weighs less than a hardback book — so the weight is never the problem. Two other things are. The first is size: a piece that looked generous on a phone screen turns into a postage stamp above a three-seat sofa. The rule of thumb worth keeping is that the whole arrangement should cover about two thirds to three quarters of the furniture it hangs over, which is exactly the sum the planner above runs for you.

The second is multi-panel sets. Half of this catalog arrives as separate pieces, and the listed dimensions describe the panels, not the finished arrangement — the gaps you leave are yours to choose and they add up fast. Four panels with six inches between them occupy eighteen inches of wall before a single panel is counted. Lay the set out on the floor first, get the spacing you want, then measure what you actually have.

One habit saves the most repainting: cut a paper rectangle for each panel, tape them up with painter’s tape, and live with the arrangement for a day before anything sharp touches the plaster.