Wall murals
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carreauchompeur

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18,301 posts

227 months

Saturday 28th August 2010
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http://www.popartuk.com/photography/waterfalls/wat...

I am looking at similar products to the above, basically want to create a "feature wall" in the bedroom... Do quite like patterned woodland wallpapers but something like the above "Giant wall mural" would be great.

How does one fix these to the wall? How easy is it to make it look good? Does mention spray adhesive which scares me a trifle.

NitroNick

758 posts

233 months

Thursday 2nd September 2010
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Had one of these for a year, was cool at the start but quickly got tired of it.
Sunlight faded some parts, it started to look stupid: so I took it down and painted the wall.
If you are getting one get a good quality on which won't fade, mine was just a cheap one.
It went on just like regular wall paper.

carreauchompeur

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18,301 posts

227 months

Thursday 2nd September 2010
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NitroNick said:
Had one of these for a year, was cool at the start but quickly got tired of it.
Sunlight faded some parts, it started to look stupid: so I took it down and painted the wall.
If you are getting one get a good quality on which won't fade, mine was just a cheap one.
It went on just like regular wall paper.
The one I'm looking at is £50 for a 2m-ish by 3m-ish mural- How does this compare to the one you had? Rather not do it, if it's going to look tat by 6 months...

M-J-B

15,377 posts

273 months

Thursday 2nd September 2010
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Simple.................digitally printed wallpaper and we do it all the time.

If it's printed on the right stock, with the right machine and inks it doesn't fade for years and years and years. That said, it won't cost £50, look to pay nearly that per m2.

The benefit of digitally printed wallpaper, is you can also have anything you want, rather than something you don't. It also simply hung like conventional paper.

carreauchompeur

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227 months

Thursday 2nd September 2010
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Yep, I'm starting to think that it might not be the kind of thing that would look good done cheaply. Have seen some cracking patterned wallpaper though which fits the "woodland" bill, albeit a bit more expensive.. Thanks all, as always smile