Kids' Wall Murals
Oct.30
The choices are infinite!
Wallpaper murals are exciting and inexpensive decorating solutions that have captured the fancy of many parents recently. What better way to inspire your child’s imagination than with a colorful, big-as-life scene right there in her room?
You can choose from an endless selection of themes, from storybook illustrations, to sports or world maps or outer space, to wilderness or fantasy scenes, and everything in-between. You can even have your own photographs enlarged to become murals.
After all, those four blank walls don’t provide much stimulation. You want to give your child all the delight and motivation you can in this stressful world. But hiring an artist to create an original is beyond most folks’ budgets. Wallpaper murals provide an inexpensive and satisfying alternative.
What’s required to transform your kid’s room with a mural? Probably,the hardest part is selecting the scene you want. Take your time choosing, as this will be a fairly major decorating commitment! Be sure you’re virtually in love with the picture before purchasing.
Most wallpaper murals come with paste provided, or pre-pasted. You apply the picture in strips, much the same way any wallpaper is applied. It will take you a few hours to do, if the mural is indeed wall-sized,and the brilliance of the effect will be worth every minute of effort! Smaller murals, for doors or sections of wall, will of course be more quickly installed.
It’s best to start with a very smooth, latex-painted surface for a wallpaper mural. If your surface is not smooth, you can install a ‘liner-paper’ that will make the wallpaper go on easily.
Worried about damaging the wall when you remove the mural?Check with the seller to ensure your mural’s adhesive is safe.
Again, there are a multitude of options in wallpaper murals.You can choose the scene, the size, the substrate, the adhesive type, and more. But if wallpapering is not an experience you enjoy, or if your landlord prohibits it, or if you want more ongoing flexibility in your décor, remember that you can opt for vinyl wall decals. These are generally smaller than murals, but they come in just as huge a variety as their larger cousins, and can be applied and removed with ease.
Everyone loves pictures, and kids are endlessly entertained by excellent visuals. You know this is true, having observed your child watch the same movie over and over a hundred times. So it’s truly smart parenting to provide your young ones with rich and always accessible images for their constant delight and comfort.
- Allison
Room Decor for 15% off! Happy Halloween.
Oct.27
Save 15% off all Room Decor when you enter the code spooky09 at checkout. Sale ends Sunday November 1.
- Allison
Vote Now!
Oct.20
WallCandy Arts® My Sweet Room Contest
We’re quite proud of the entries to our Contest, and it’s likely that you’ll enjoy looking at them too! They just prove that WallCandy is limited only by the imagination.
So the thumbnails are below, and you can click on each to see a larger image. Then select your ONE favorite, and leave a comment telling us which one you like best and why you like it.
After a couple of weeks, we’ll tally up your votes and present the winner. If you feel strongly about your choice, get a bunch of friends to stop by and vote as well. Remember, a vote that says a name with no comment on why you made the selection won’t count.
Many thanks to our contestants, and to you voters as well!
OK, check out these masterpieces – and have fun commenting your creative praises.
We will wrap up the voting and close the polls on Friday, November 6th, so don’t miss this great chance!
Lori Horwitz
Christy Snook
Karen O’Campo
Claire Ezikian
Molli Muirhead
Alejandra James
Rick Joens
Emily Gibson
Ami Snedaker
Designs for Living
Oct.9
WallCandy is for grown-ups, too!
On this blog, we almost exclusively talk about wall decals. But did you know there are a bunch of products – ones appealing mostly to adult tastes – that are not wall decals but different types of home décor – all in delightfully unique designs?
Oh yes, we offer a line from notNeutral that is sure to whet your decorating appetite. These room accessories are both subtle and distinctive, excellent foundations on which to build your home environments.
Take, for instance, the area rugs. Have you ever noticed how the rug can make all the difference to any space? These spare yet friendly designs in two sizes pull the different elements of a room together.
Tired of that boring sheetrock look? Try some wood paneling! You won’t need hammer and nails, though; just a quick position-and-press application.
Most grown-ups love to pamper their guests with cool stuff. WallCandy products include ways you can set the table, with placemats and trivets, and serve your guests chips in our exquisite leaf bowl.
Oh, and do you like the gorgeous lanterns, lighting up an outdoor deck or walkway?
After your guests have gone home, cuddle up with a few throw pillows and our reversible quilt in the living room.
If you spend more of your time in the garden than anywhere else (or at least, it seems like you do),these garden stakes will surely catch your eye.
If you thought WallCandy was all about kids, think again.It’s going to be the holiday season soon, and your kids will again take center stage. But for a little while now, consider the ways WallCandy is your resource for casually sophisticated décor all around the house, and not just in the kids’ rooms.
Whether you’re a parent interested in instilling high aesthetic values in your children, or living in an adults-only household, you’ll find these designs intriguing. Intentionally spare, they serve as launching pads for the masterpieces of your own imagination!
- Allison
WallCandy® Arts Blog Only Special
Oct.5
Life can seem a little overwhelming at times, and you can feel as if you’re being pulled in all directions, and never getting anywhere.
Ground yourself. Establish your turf. The grass is greener on your side with our Landscape wall stickers, and we’re offering a 10% discount this week for these luscious decals.
Bring a little outdoors inside with you to extend the summer a little. You can control your world! Enter the code land10 at checkout.
Donation of Wall Decals Helps Transitional Housing Facility
Oct.1
Girl Scout Makes It Happen
There’s a transitional housing and residential facility in Sylmar, CA, that helps women and children move out of homelessness and build better lives. Part of the Urban Rescue Mission (URM),which brings help and hope to homeless and desperately poor men, women, and children of downtown Los Angeles,the Hope Gardens Family Center opened in 2006, though the services it provides were first organized in the late ’90s. The URM itself was originally founded in 1893.
The Urban Rescue Mission, WallCandy Arts, and a certain Girl Scout named Joycelyn Yip teamed up to beautify rooms at the Family Center. WallCandy Arts contributed several of our wall decal kits, The URM provided the walls, and Joycelyn contributed her artistic eye and deft hands; and the results are charming, don’t you think?
Joycelyn was able to complete her Girl Scout Gold Award Project with this volunteer effort to help make the homeless women and their children at the Hope Family GardensCenter more comfortable. And she did a great job brightening the environment, which is appreciated by residents as they seek to build more positive and productive lifestyles.
Isn’t it amazing what a difference a few wall decals can make? Even if a space is institutional, or ‘transitional,’ it can be transformed from drab to delightful,from dark to cheery.
We’re proud of the Urban Rescue Mission, the Hope Garden Family Center,and especially of Joycelyn. Without her, none of these great improvements would have happened. Thank you, Joycelyn; may you go on to a glorious future!
