Custom Painted / Designed Caskets




Should you prefer, we paint beautiful designs and pictures onto your casket for you, either creating a design of your choosing or one of ours should that be your wish. The options are unlimited, as vast as the imagination. We have seen caskets wood burned, drawn on with pencils, adorned with leatherwork, signed with messages from friends, decoupaged, and painted in every way imaginable.

Our most famous decorated casket was purchased in 1975 by then 83-year-old Katherine Anne Porter. Ms. Porter is best known as the author of Ship of Fools and won a Pulitzer Prize in literature for her short stories. Her casket, painted with bright flowers, became the focal point of numerous interviews conducted in her home, where she kept, often showed and used her casket as a clothes armoire.

We have made custom painted caskets for fishermen, flower lovers, cowboys, loggers and yes, even for avid cigarette smokers. Whatever suits your fancy or your sense of humor, send us a photo or a sketch and we'll either do it or find someone who can. This is your chance to create a truly unique and personalized casket, totally unlike the stock, moribund body capsules found in the funeral home showrooms.

Price: Dependent upon complexity of design