More Than a Colour Choice: How Custom Finishing Makes Public Spaces Truly Distinctive

When landscape architects and municipal planners think about customizing outdoor site furnishings, the conversation usually starts and ends with colour. Colour matters. But for clients who want their outdoor spaces to reflect a brand identity, honour a community member, or create a lasting visual impression, colour is only the beginning.

PARIS offers a range of custom finishing options designed to make each installation distinctively suited to the space it serves.

Custom Powder Coat Colour

PARIS offers a broad range of standard powder coat colours to suit municipal specifications and institutional palettes. Custom colour matching is also available for clients with precise requirements, whether that is matching an established municipal standard across a park system or aligning with campus brand guidelines.

Colour selection also has practical implications. Darker colours absorb more heat in direct sun. Lighter colours show surface wear more visibly over time. These are worth raising with the client at the specification stage.

Laser Cut Branding and Custom Panels

PARIS offers laser cut options that allow logos, wordmarks, patterns, and custom designs to be incorporated directly into the steel panels of site furnishings. This is well suited to corporate campuses, sports facilities, educational institutions, and municipal installations where a distinctive visual identity is part of the brief.

Laser cut customization transforms a standard product into a site-specific piece that reinforces the identity of the space without requiring additional maintenance over the life of the product.

Vinyl Graphics

Vinyl graphic options allow logos, taglines, inspirational quotes, and custom artwork to be applied to site furnishings with precision and durability. This option works well for wayfinding applications, branded recreational environments, and spaces where full-colour artwork is required.

Memorial and Donor Plaques

PARIS offers two plaque options for benches, planters, and other furnishings where recognition or memorialization is required.

Engraved anodized aluminum plaques are available in a standard 6" x 4" size with custom sizes available. Cast bronze plaques are available in a standard 9" x 3" size with custom sizes available. Both integrate cleanly with PARIS product lines and are built to perform outdoors over the long term.

For spaces where a bench or planter is being dedicated in someone's memory or in recognition of a donor, a plaque transforms the furnishing into something more meaningful.

Contact PARIS to discuss custom finishing options for your next project.

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