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
Aug.24
This week’s special gives you a choice between several of our removable wall stickers. Take a look at our Animal Designs page, but look out, because your choosing won’t be easy. In this single category of our products, a delightful variety of seven WallCandy kits are included. Hmmm… the kids would love the Chalkboard Animals, the baby would be thrilled with Flutterflies, but you’re kind of partial towards Fly Society because it would look so great in the den …. You might just have to close your eyes and pick!
Enter the code blog15 at checkout and get a nifty 15% discount on any Animal Design stickers, this week only!
WallCandyArts Retailers: the best of the best!
Aug.7
Look how Grace Chesse sets the style in Shanghai
We assume you’re familiar with our Stores page, where we list the many fabulous retailers who carry WallCandy removable wall stickers. But have you taken a moment to check out those listed under ‘Outside ofthe US?’ Yes m’am, we are represented on fully six continents.
So this post is about one of the amazing retailers with the good sense and savvy to carry our products. She’s Grace Chesse, of Shanghai Lollipop, a children’s boutique in China– and she’s a dynamo!
Check out, for instance, her adorable backpacks (with matching beverage bottles), just in time for back to school. Or how about the clever changing table that turns into a small desk, then a large desk, then an organizer as your child grows. Kind of reminds us of our new Smarts® product.
At the very least, you’ve got to check out the On Sale page, where you’ll find bargains on the cutest toddler shoes, tee shirts, and even a few items to tempt Mom herself.
Look here to see all the WallCandy designs the company features. It seems we have Grace’s stamp of approval, and it’s a high honor. She’s clearly a savvy and tasteful businesswoman.
And of course, we’re grateful to all our many retail representatives. How about these folks in Spain? Or these in Australia? Is it possible that WallCandy has invented a new universal language?
Please let us know in the comments where you’ve been when you’ve seen WallCandy offered for sale. We’d love to hear your stories!
12th Annual Super Saturday
Jul.30
August 1st Fundraiser for Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation
It’s finally here! This wonderful benefit is a sizzling summer tradition for us at WallCandyArts. Held at Nova’s Ark Project in Water Mill, New York, the event this year is hosted by Donna Karan, Areil Foxman, InStyle, Kelly Ripa, and Blake Lively.
What is Super Saturday? Just the most fabulous one-of-a-kind designer garage sale and kids’ carnival you ever experienced, along with gourmet dining and exciting activities galore. Every year, Super Saturday raises thousands of dollars for ovarian cancer research. The deals are so good, even celebrities can’t resist!
Want to know what high quality brands are represented? Checkout the star-studded list. It may be a yard sale, but we’re talking honest-to-goodness glamour here.
Super Saturday was originally the brainchild of Harper’s Bazaar editor Liz Tilberis. We quote here from the OCRF website:
On a glorious summer afternoon in the summer of 1997, Harper’s Bazaar editor Liz Tilberis and Donna Karan invited their many designer and celebrity friends to donate their clothes, shoes, handbags and jewelry for a sale on the lawn of Liz’s summer home in the Hamptons to benefit OCRF.
Liz had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and was serving as OCRF’s president. She was one of the first women to publicly discuss her battle with ovarian cancer, helping to bring the disease into the public consciousness.
When Liz died in April 1999, Donna Karan, Faith Kates Kogan, and their dear friends decided to continue the summer designer garage sale in theHamptons. Now in its 12th year, the event continues to raise public awareness of ovarian cancer and fund research for better treatment and, ultimately, a cure.
For her creativity and style, generosity, zest for life, and love of family, we salute Liz Tilberis. The sense of joy, laughter, and gaiety that radiates throughout Super Saturday is a credit to her vision.
If you can’t make it to the sale, you can still participate through www.qvc.com, shopping online in the comfort of your home and spending for the benefit of cancer research. Designer items are on sale right now on the site, with more goodies available during the actual event on Saturday. And we’ll be sure to post some photos from the event ight here, so check back next week!
