About

Backlot Boutique began behind the scenes.

Every room an actor walks into was built by someone. For twelve years, in Atlanta's film and television scenic departments, that someone was me.

The job was making old look new and new look old. Marble painted onto a wall that had to read as stone from thirty feet back. Woodgrain pulled with a comb across a flat. Copper gone green, gold leaf laid in squares, Venetian plaster troweled and burnished by hand — surfaces that took days to build and sometimes appeared on screen for seconds.

I wanted those pieces to have another life.

What's in the shop

I photograph the finishes — real panels, real sample boards, painted by hand — and they get printed onto objects you'll actually use: playing cards, puzzles, notebooks, wrapping paper, mugs, glassware, wearables.

Alongside them are pieces chosen with the same eye: texture, character, and a little unexpected charm.

Some things are my own designs. Others were hand-drawn digitally by the same artist, with intention and a dash of humor. The thread connecting them is simple — ordinary life deserves interesting objects.

Faked by hand, long before AI

Scenic art is the original convincing fake. It has a long history in theater and film, and a short deadline. Nothing in this shop is a filter or a generated texture: every finish started as paint on a board, built by hand, against a call time.

How things are made

Products are printed to order in the United States. Shipping is a flat $7.95 per U.S. order, however many pieces end up in the box.

Shop the set

The shop is sorted the way a set is — by which department would have handled it.

Fun Props — any object the actor actually picks up: mugs, phone cases, notebooks, glassware, water bottles
Scenic Artworks — the environment itself: tapestries, canvas prints, wall art, peel-and-stick wallpaper
Clothing & Wardrobe — anything the actor wears: hats, shirts, socks, belts, bags
Home Set Decorations — everything in the scene nobody picks up: rugs, pillows, cards, puzzles, magnets

And if you want the star treatment yourself: the Screen Test is a director's full notes on how you read on camera — your colors, wardrobe, lighting and blocking, built from five photos you send.