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- WALL DRESSED UP is a company created by two artists, both formally trained in New York, with extensive backgrounds in mural and trompe l'oeil painting, decorative painting, fabric design and illustration. We are really excited to bring our mural and decorative artwork to you in easy to apply Transfer Murals and our new peel-and-stick Movable Murals.
- We have spent a long time researching just the right kind of printing that will provide a beautiful end result, along with ease of application for you, our customer. Some of the methods that we tested seemed easy, but did not provide consistently easy application. We wanted a foolproof method of application, so that you do not need to be exceptionally crafty to get an excellent result. We also wanted to be able to print large wall murals as well as designs that you can customize. It has been such an interesting journey getting the printing to meet all our criteria, but we are confident that you will find the results of our search to be an incredible product for your home.
- Our mission is to bring beautiful mural artwork into our customers homes and make wall murals both easy to apply and affordable.
- Our vision is to provide you with the type of artwork that a designer would commission for a showcase home, but to make the whole process easy and much less expensive than commissioning a custom mural.
- Imagine picking from an array of beautiful mural art, trompe l'oeil designs, architectural elements that incorporate faux finishes, children's murals, hand painted borders and other fabulous designs for a fraction of what it would cost you to hire a professional mural artist.
- These designs can be applied to walls, furniture...even floors! The most exciting thing is that once the Mural Transfer is applied to your wall, it truly looks like a custom hand painted mural. When you follow the easy application instructions to apply the artwork to your wall, only the printed ink will transfer making it look like it was painted directly on the wall. Our Movable Mural line is made of an ultra-premium material that is repositionable and looks beautifully sophisticated!
- There is absolutely no paint or mess. All designs will come with easy and straight forward directions for how to apply. This will be an amazingly fun and easy "do-it-yourself" project with maximum WOW factor at an incredible price.
- Invite the neighbors over! They won't believe that you didn't hire an artist to paint an expensive custom mural directly on your wall. (We won't tell if you don't)
Posted on June 30th, 2007. Wall Dressed Up Blog
We are so pleased to have found a product to bring to you that has all the qualities we were looking for in a transfer mural product for Wall Dressed Up. The printing technology itself is amazing. We spent a lot of time researching exactly the right method for you to transfer mural art to your wall. It was a childhood memory of a rub down transfer coloring book that sparked our first thought of combining printed transfers with our mural art.
Imagine all the walls you would love to decorate with murals or decorative painting. We painted murals for years the traditional way. We met with clients, showed our portfolio of work, decided on a theme or direction, did sketches and an estimate, found a spot on the calendar…which was often booked months out. We had all the business we could handle through word of mouth. We brought paints, ladders, tables, drop cloths, and sometimes scaffolding to our clients homes. Way up on a ladder, we created art. It was fun, but there were days we wished there was a way to do the painting in our studio, under optimal conditions…we felt our artwork would be even better.
Some artists have printed their murals on wallpaper, but then you have a cut edge and it does not look like it was painted on the wall. We all know the drawbacks of wallpaper. We thought of those coloring book rub downs…..that would be perfect. We could create the BEST artwork we possibly could, and customers (YOU) could simply rub the finished artwork onto your wall, no paint, no mess at all. You get to see the artwork ahead of time. You don’t have to wait months for us to fit you into our schedule. You simply order your mural and when it arrives on your doorstep... you open the package, lay out the mural to decide where you want it, rub it off the transfer paper and voila! Your mural is done!
Oh, did we mention the price??? You'll love it! We charged $500.00 or more per DAY to paint at someones house. You will now be able to order a mural that takes us a week or two (custom price would be $2500-$5000) to paint in our studio for an average $50-100. Most people won't be able to tell the difference between a custom mural and a transfer. There will be designs for even less and some a bit more, depending on the size and complexity of the mural. It is an amazing value and we paint with a lot of attention to detail, as we spend more time on the art than we would be able to on a wall.
It is such a win win situation. You get our best artwork. We get to be as creative with our artwork as we can. We spend as much time on the artwork as we need and we get to paint in our studios, under the best lighting and with all our art supplies at hand. You benefit from the creativity that is generated under these conditions.
We know that some people may not quite understand how these transfers work when you just explain it to them. Ah…but when they see it demonstrated…WOW! So, our main goal in marketing this product will be to get it demonstrated to people. We will also have a video demo on our website. However, in person, after you rub it off the transfer paper and run your finger over the place where the artwork is transfered on the wall and feel no difference on the wall, it is pretty impressive. It truly looks and feels painted on the wall. Oh, and when time comes to redecorate, you simply paint over the transfer mural, just like you would a custom painted mural!
So, that is the story behind the start of our business, Wall Dressed Up. We are excited to bring this mural product to you.
YOU HIRED A MURALIST, RIGHT?
Rub-on Transfers Lend a Hand-Painted Look to Walls, Furniture—at a Fraction of the Price
Deborah Hansen, a mother of three in Irvington, New York, knew she wanted to do something special for her 6- and 7-year-old daughters’ room. She’d painted the walls in wide stripes of pastel blue and green; she’d covered their favorite chair in a delicate pink flower print.
And then she discovered the Wall Dressed Up ornamental butterflies.
“They matched the color of the room beautifully,” says Deborah, who applied the series to the girls’ door and wall. “And they look and feel like they were hand-painted. You absolutely cannot tell I rubbed them on.”
The oversized butterflies are one of nine mural transfer designs that Wall Dressed Up, a web-based company, offers do-it-yourself decorators. Unlike other wall decoration products, however, these are literally as thin as paint, with no vinyl or paper edge to peel up. A special four-color printing process preserves every brushstroke, every nuanced shade of the original artist’s rendering. With nothing more than an applicator stick, home decorators can apply either a series of small decorative elements or an entire trompe l’oeil mural to smooth or textured surfaces such as walls, ceilings, and furnishings.
There was—although it took two years for Carol and Sue, a textile designer, to find just the right printer to produce their fine-art designs. “We didn’t want anything that looked like a sticker, or those wallpaper cut-outs you can get at craft stores,” Carol explains. “It had to be high-resolution, something that would cure right into your paint, as if a muralist had done it—but at a fraction of the price.”
The team’s initial portfolio comprises a series of design “elements” that can be intermixed and arranged to give an entire room a custom look. Flowering vines, English ivy, Mediterranean tile, and granite molding work as motifs, whereas the Tuscan Window adds a complete trompe l’oeil effect. Many more designs—Tuscan topiaries, dinosaurs breaking through walls, and patterned, graphic elements—are in the works.
“Once you see how to play with these pieces, you feel like the possibilities are endless,” Carol says. “It’s kind of addictive.”
Indeed, Deborah Hansen is so pleased with the butterfly effect she created that she’s contemplating adding Gerber daisies to her daughters’ white bureau. “I’m going to put them on the drawers, and coordinate the look with a few on the wall,” she muses. “I can see how you could become totally hooked on this product.”
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MEET THE ARTISTS |
Carol Reynolds painted her first mural in 6th grade on the doors of her elementary school and has been painting on walls ever since! She has a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from AU in New York. Carol started her career with a major window covering manufacturer for several years, followed by eight years in the custom furniture and interior design industry. During this time she started to paint murals for her clients. As the mural business grew, Carol then concentrated on painting custom murals exclusively for clients first in California and then in Arizona. She is always interested in trying new techniques to create decorative illusions in her murals or trompe L'oeil designs. Carol is strongly influenced by the paintings of Vermeer and the murals of artists like Graham Rust, and loves to paint the illusion of draped fabric and to include faux finishes in her designs.
Sue Klassen attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, where she obtained a degree in textile design after her graduation from college with a Liberal Arts Degree. Sue then worked in New York City for 10 years in the fashion and home design industry, creating designs and styling fabric lines. She traveled internationally for her work and gained extensive experience in all aspects of design, color and printing. Her inspiration for her artwork comes from textiles, mosaics, textures, paintings and patterns in nature. Sue's artwork reflects her interest in combining patterns in her designs. Her passion for selectively mixing patterns and color is the motivation behind the murals, designs and borders she creates for the home.
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