Wheatpaste poster advertising in Washington, DC.
Hand-installed paste-up posters across U Street, Shaw, Adams Morgan, H Street, and Capitol Hill. Per-wall pricing, GPS photo proof on every install.
From $3,500, printing and installation both included. 5-7 days from brief to first wall.
500+ documented installs since 2019 · a GPS photo of every wall · printed and installed in-house
We delivered.
Brand partners include: FIFA World Cup 2026, Palantir, Sézane, G-Shock, Mitchell & Ness, True Religion, Huda Beauty, Yonex, Relevance AI, Momentous, RYZE Coffee, Bloom Effects, Incrediwear, Brooklyn Museum, Sweat FC, HydroJug, Frameline, Alchemy, OneRepublic, Lone Fox, Vaura Pilates.
U Street holds the register.
The 14th and U Street corridor carries painted commercial frontage block after block, the densest paste-friendly run in the District outside the historic overlays. Property owners along the corridor support visual work, audiences expect quality, and the cultural weight of the neighborhood frames every campaign. New paper reads as part of the block, not noise dropped on top of it.
That is the Washington, DC operator advantage. Not a billboard buy. Not transit. Hand-installed paste-up at eye level on the surfaces your audience already walks past on the way to work, to a show, to a march. The wall is the campaign. Nothing surrounds it.
Walls we've pasted in Washington DC.
Heavyweight stock, hand-pasted.
No vinyl, no machines. Paper and wheat paste on a real Washington DC wall.
Placed where the city actually looks.
We scout the corridors first, then paste at eye level on the walls your audience already passes.
Crews paste across Washington DC in one run.
8 neighborhoods on a single dispatch, timed to your launch window.
Every wall comes back as proof.
A GPS-stamped photo of each install the day it goes up. 0 municipal removals on record since 2019.
Washington DC · Printed in-house · Installed by our crew
Got a wall in Washington DC?
Send the brand, the neighborhood, and your window. You get a real quote, line by line. From $3,500, printed and installed, documented on every wall.
- Quote in under 24 hours
- No discovery call. The brief is the call.
- Printing & Installation under one roof
Brief us · 5-7 days to first wall
Start your Washington DC campaign.
Paper, paste, and a real wall.
A large paper poster adhered to a wall with a water-based wheat-flour paste. The sheet grips brick, concrete, scaffold board, and plywood as a single skin — no frame, no vinyl, no grommets — and photographs as part of the building rather than a sign bolted on. The same water that cured the paste dissolves it on demand, leaving the surface clean.
- 01 Scout the wall
We identify permitted private walls, scaffold boards, and construction hoardings in your target Washington DC neighborhoods before anything prints.
- 02 Print in-house
Artwork is matched to the surface spec by the same crew that does the install. No handoff between print shop and installer.
- 03 Hand-paste
Two coats of paste per sheet — the face coat soaks through the fiber and locks the poster down edge to edge. 5-7 days from brief to first wall in Washington DC.
- 04 GPS-document every wall
Three photos per wall (wide, mid, and detail). Full log ships within 48 hours of the last install. 0 municipal removals on record since 2019.
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Brooklyn Museum
Eight neighborhoods. Eight registers.
- U Street painted commercial · 14-22 days
14th Street NW, 9th Street, and U Street painted commercial frontage. Historic Black cultural register with music and civil-rights history. The highest paste density in the District.
- Shaw painted commercial · 14-22 days
9th and 14th Street NW painted walls, gallery and venue culture. Stencil-strong blocks that hold paste cleanly. The right corridor for music, arts, and culturally-rooted brand work.
- Adams Morgan painted commercial + poles · 12-18 days
18th Street NW painted commercial and pole-heavy frontage. Nightlife and ethnic-restaurant culture pulls dense evening foot traffic. Strong for food-and-beverage, music, and hospitality briefs.
- H Street raw brick · 12-20 days
The H Street NE corridor entertainment-and-arts district. Raw brick frontage that reads well at street level. Works for nightlife, music, and DTC briefs reaching the Northeast quadrant audience.
- Capitol Hill permissioned commercial · 12-18 days
The policy corridor, the densest congressional, lobbying, and policy audience in the country. Permissioned commercial walls only, with tighter property coordination near the historic overlay. Best for political, advocacy, and nonprofit briefs.
- NoMa hoarding + raw brick · 12-20 days
Development-zone corridor with construction hoarding and raw brick. Emerging tech corridor with high build-fence inventory. Works for product launches, tech, and DTC reaching the new-resident segment.
- Logan Circle commercial + scaffold · 12-18 days
14th Street NW commercial frontage with scaffold rotations. Bridges residential affluence and creative-industry foot traffic. Works as a connector across multi-neighborhood pushes.
- Navy Yard active-development commercial · 10-16 days
Active-development commercial frontage near Nationals Park. Emerging Southeast corridor with game-day and waterfront foot traffic. Works for sports, beverage, and lifestyle briefs.
Washington DC questions.
The short version. The brief covers the rest.
Q · 01 Is wheatpaste advertising legal in Washington, DC?
Permitted private-wall campaigns run with written owner consent, and we never touch public infrastructure: WMATA transit, federal buildings, monuments, National Park Service surfaces, utility poles, and right-of-way are off-limits. Washington, DC treats paste-up on a permissioned wall as a property-rights matter. Much of the District sits under a federal-historic overlay, and we keep a current matrix of protected districts and work strictly outside them. Zero municipal removals on record across 500+ documented installs since 2019.
Q · 02 How much does a wheatpaste campaign cost in Washington, DC?
Wheatpaste in Washington, DC starts at $3,500 per campaign with print and install included. Multi-neighborhood programs across U Street, Shaw, Adams Morgan, Capitol Hill, H Street, and NoMa price up from the published floor. The final number depends on turnaround, size, location count, and combined service mix. Historic-overlay verification near protected districts adds property-coordination overhead. Final quote returns in 24-48 hours. Full rate card is on our pricing page. No RFP gatekeeping.
Q · 03 Which Washington, DC neighborhoods do you cover for paste-up campaigns?
U Street, Shaw, Adams Morgan, H Street, Capitol Hill, NoMa, Logan Circle, Navy Yard, and Georgetown on pre-approved walls only. The 14th and U corridor carries the highest density of paste-friendly painted commercial frontage in the District. Shaw holds gallery and venue culture. Capitol Hill concentrates the policy and congressional audience. Adams Morgan covers nightlife and ethnic-restaurant culture. NoMa and Navy Yard are the emerging development corridors. Each neighborhood has distinct property-owner relationships and surface specs on file.
Q · 04 How fast can a Washington, DC campaign launch?
Five to fourteen days from creative lock to first wall, with most programs landing in the 7 to 14 day range. The crew is on the ground year-round. Same-week is doable when print files are press-ready and walls sit outside the historic overlays. Federal-historic coordination adds time, so protected-district adjacencies and Capitol Hill walls need airtight property agreements before dispatch. Cherry Blossom and inauguration timing needs several weeks of advance booking.
Q · 05 Does the political and event calendar change campaign timing in Washington, DC?
Significantly. The District's audience attention shifts around the political calendar (Congress in session, major policy windows, election windows, inaugurations every four years), the advocacy calendar (March for Life, the Women's March, climate and immigration marches), and the cultural calendar (Smithsonian programming, Kennedy Center events, the National Book Festival). The Cherry Blossom Festival in late March or early April pulls a global tourist audience to the Tidal Basin and Georgetown. Inauguration weeks and major policy moments produce the heaviest amplification windows. Plan installs several weeks out for any of these.
From $3,500. 5-7 days, brief to first paste.
Printing and installation both included. Most shops do one or the other. Every wall is scouted, hand-pasted, and GPS-photographed the day it goes up.
