THE STUDIO

The room is a spec, not a backdrop.

Long-term results are decided by the environment the work happens in: temperature the chemistry expects, light that shows every defect, air that isn't carrying the last car's dust. This page is the room, the rules, and the two people inside it.

The room, as data

One car per room, always. Coatings level differently at the wrong temperature, film adhesive behaves differently in dusty air, and defects hide from soft light — so none of those variables are left to chance.

BAY TEMPERATURE
22°C ±1
INSPECTION LIGHT
5600K · CRI 95+
AIR HANDLING
FILTERED
CARS PER ROOM
1ONLY

Three rules that don't bend

R1

Measured before touched

The gauge map comes first, every time. If a panel can't safely take correction, you'll know before we start — not after.

R2

No blades on paint

Every film pattern is cut digitally before it enters the room. A knife against your clear coat is a shortcut we refuse on principle.

R3

Nothing leaves unproven

Every build ends under the 5600 K bar with the log open. If a panel doesn't pass raking light, it doesn't get handed over.

The work, under the bar

Technician with his back to the camera machine-polishing a black door under the LED bar
REFINE STAGE · DUAL-ACTION · REAR DOOR
Macro of water beads standing on freshly coated black paint
COATED PANEL · BEAD STRUCTURE
Computer-cut film edge being set with a squeegee on a black bonnet
PPF EDGE SET · DIGITAL PATTERN
Paint thickness gauge reading 128 microns on a black door panel
INTAKE MAP · READING 14 OF 34

Who touches your car

Two people hold keys to this building. Nobody else touches a customer car — not for washing, not for moving, not for photographs.

Elias Marr

FOUNDER · CORRECTION + COATINGS

Fourteen years on paint, the last nine appointment-only. Elias built the studio around a rule he refuses to outgrow: if the diary is full, the answer is no.

Reya Okafor

FILM SPECIALIST · PATTERNS + INSTALL

Reya cut her first patterns in motorsport, where film outranks paint. She owns every edge in this building — digital cut, wrapped finish, no blades, no exceptions.

The empty Onyx studio: black walls, two LED bars, a car silhouette in the far bay

The room does the talking on a tour — but the diary only holds four.

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