This is a fun "What's new at Wall Dressed Up" page. Here you will find...
the latest mural additions
photo's of murals our clients send us
featured designs
drawings for free murals
how to use our mural transfers on furniture, floors, mirrors and more
decorating articles relating to color, murals and interior design
polls that you can vote on so we can best meet your needs and paint the designs YOU want most (click here to vote now)
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Now Available...Wall Dressed Up Movable Murals!
Wow! We are so excited and we know you will be too! You have all been asking for re-positionable "peel and stick" murals and we have found the most amazing premium product to print our Movable Muraldesigns on! This product is easily repositionable, won't tear or leave any residue. It is SO EASY to just place on your wall, and if you don't like where you put it, just move it! It is thin, matte and made of a beautiful matte fabric like material, not a shiny vinyl!
This is just a preview of some of our new Movable Mural dots coming to Wall Dressed Up by the end of October!
We also have this design/colorway on the way!
The large dots are 10 inches, medium dots 7 inches and then there are 11 smaller assorted size dots! These are repositionable, removable and reusable. They are matte, printed on an award winning material that will stick to flat and textured walls and you will get no bubbles because the material is breathable. Sign up for our newsletter so we can let you know as soon as these are available! (end of October)
Here is a preview of our newest "Movable Mural". It is a series of colorful patterned trucks that will liven up the walls of your favorite little boy's room. Line them up or even paint the bottom of the wall green and the top blue for sky and have these trucks traverse up and down some hills!
We have a really fun new "Fancy Flowers" design that is now available in our store. It is a "Movable Mural" which means it is infinitely repositionable and easily peels off your wall (no damage to walls at ALL). This premium material is matte and just about indestructible. Simply peel and stick!
This sheet is 24"x 50", so these flowers are BIG, almost 12" for the larger flowers. The dots can be used as accents, or used to create stems or swirls. This is just a fun design and it will cover a big area! Here is just one idea of what you can do with this design!
Wall Dressed Up Is A
StartupNation 2008 Home-Based 100 Competition
Winner!
Thank you everyone for your votes and support during this competition! We are so grateful to be a winner of this StartupNation award and have the opportunity to share this fun and innovative product with you!
StartupNation: The photo tells the whole story and we just love it. Wall Dressed Up is a company that designs and sells mural transfers that you simply rub onto your wall.
Carol Reynolds and Sue Klassen started Wall Dressed Up last fall after several years of research to find just the right mural transfer product for our business. They are two artists/moms coming back into the business world with a wonderful mural product that easily rubs onto your wall almost like a tattoo. A new "Movable Mural" line (removable AND repositionable is also in the works and will be introduced in just a few weeks!
All this for a fraction of the cost of a custom mural. They set a goal to make murals affordable and easy for anyone to have in their home. Mission accomplished.
We entered this contest over the summer....Thank you all for voting for us!
We just entered The StartupNation Home-Based 100 Competition and would love your vote! StartupNation is a great site by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs and is a huge source of information for startup businesses. Below is a summary of our entry. We entered in 2 categories-Boomers Back in Business, and Most Innovative!
We would of course love the exposure that being a winner of this competition would give Wall Dressed Up. What a great way to let more people know about this fabulous new decorating product. We would really appreciate your vote! Help spread the word about these wonderful mural transfers! Thanks!
Bird in Wall and Breakaway Brick Mural Transfer by Wall Dressed Up
Wall Dressed Up designs and sells mural transfers that you simply rub onto your wall!
We started Wall Dressed Up last fall after several years of research to find just the right mural transfer product for our business. We are two artists/moms coming back into the business world with a mural product that easily rubs onto your wall, almost like a tattoo!
These transfer murals simply becomes part of your wall, just like a thin coat of paint. This is not a sticker! Every original brush stroke and shadow is reproduced in high resolution detail and shadows make the artwork pop! All you need to do is rub it on the wall! You can now beautifully decorate flat or textured walls, floors, ceilings, furniture, mirrors and more without even a single drop of paint!
We are thrilled to be starting this business and taking advantage of new technology to promote and sell our affordable murals. We feel this is a great and inexpensive way to add mural artwork to as many walls as possible. We have our website, blog and are also selling our murals on Amazon. We have a few boutique stores who carry our murals and are busy building the business.
We would like to be considered for the startupnation Home-Based 100 Competition as we have gone from a kernel of an idea to the start of a thriving online business. We opened less than a year ago, in October of 2007. We are 2 artist/moms, living in different states, who searched for 2 years for this thin-as-paint transfer printing. The printing technology itself is amazing.
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.
We learned how to build a website ourselves, get our product manufactured, and came up with the start up funds to open and market our business. We used many resources and ideas here on the startupnation website (it’s a great source of ideas and information) as we progressed along the many steps of starting a business.
Thanks for considering Wall Dressed Up for the Home-Based 100 Competition!
We have 3 new designs that are now available. Thanks to all of you who have been voting on our poll. Keep those design suggestions coming. We will also be adding more children's murals next. Sign up for our newsletter to be the first to view our new designs!
New Designs!
1. Wrought Iron- this is a flexible design, and we are having so much fun working with this one! We designed this with headboards and "over the door" embellishments in mind, but there are so many options for this design!
2. Aged terracotta pot in wrought iron planter. The plant leaves are grouped separately and can be arranged in different ways so if you want to use two to flank a door or picture, the plants will look naturally a little different!
3. A mosaic border, neutral and aged. The grout is "missing" in between tiles so the wall color will become grout color. This will be a great chair rail or decorative border.
Here is a picture of an ivy wreath made with just a 1/2 an order of our English Ivy .
You get 4 sheets of ivy with each order for only $29.95, so this wreath was only $14.98! This is a great price, considering that it would take at least a whole day of painting to paint this directly on your wall with this much detail- at our going rate of $500 a day to paint, makes this a real bargain! It LOOKS like we came to your house and painted right on your wall! It is so easy to make! Start the wreath by lightly tracing a circle in pencil and then just using pieces of the ivy, overlapping as needed to create a circle of ivy. While it looks great for the holidays-a bow would be nice-, this evergreen wreath can be used year round! This wreath is a good size at 20" in diameter, but you could make it in any size. There is no buildup or edge, even when the leaves are overlapped! You can add more ivy leaves to make a denser wreath or leave it open and airy, whatever you prefer!
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.
Wall Dressed Up is the brainchild of Carol Reynolds and Susan Klassen, fine artists with backgrounds in interior design and textiles. Carol, whose “sideline” of painting custom murals turned into a $500-a-day business, kept musing on how to make her art scalable. “Potential clients would look at my portfolio and say, ‘I want that one!’” she recalls. “They’d want what I’d already painted. Every time I’d be airbrushing a ceiling I’d say to myself, ‘There’s got to be a better way!”
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.”
Well, Sue has already come up with a different way to apply the "Bird in the Wall" mural and we both really like how it looks. She just cut the brick a bit so it would line up with the edge of the bird section. She applied the brick section first and then applied the sky and ivy section with the ivy draping over the brick. She cut the brick section to line up with the sky section (you do not have to be EXACT) because the transfers are about 90% opaque and she didn't want any of the brick showing through the lighter sky. That was really the only modification, and it was easy to do. We think it really ties the brick and bird section together.
We just wanted to show you another way to apply this fun and versatile mural! It certainly works well as separate elements also. Have fun and send us some pictures of the design in your home and we will post them here.
You can create a headboard like this in any size (twin, full, queen, king, ca king) using our Wall Dressed Up Wrought Iron Mural Transfer. This is a fun project and you can create a headboard like this using our wrought iron elements! This headboard was created using only one wrought iron order for $68 (we even had leftovers)! This is a fraction of the cost of a “real” wrought iron headboard. It’s a great value and a really fun project.
14 year old Lindsay had redecorated her room in beautiful shades of steel blue and brown. All that was missing was a headboard! We will show you pictures from start to finish of her headboard project. This entire project took about 2 hours from start to finish. Lindsay’s beautiful bed looks complete now that she has a “headboard”!
This is Lindsay! Here she is measuring the length that she wants her headboard to be!
She cut the wrought iron pieces apart, leaving the backing paper on and did a rough layout of the design she wanted for her headboard.
Lindsay measured to make sure the medallion was centered and would be above the her decorative bed pillows and marked center with a light pencil mark. She taped up a few pieces to get the height correct and then started rubbing the medallion onto the wall!
This shows Lindsay rubbing the mural transfer off the transfer paper onto her wall. Only the thin as paint artwork transfers, making your mural look hand painted!
Here she has a little help continuing to rub the elements on the wall. Light pencil marks and the use of a level make sure that the design goes up straight and even!
Another picture of the mural going up!
The finishing touches….
Here is the finished project! Great job Lindsay!
New Application for Bird In The Wall and Breakaway Brick Mural Design
Well, Sue has already come up with a different way to apply the "Bird in the Wall" mural and we both really like how it looks. She just cut the brick a bit so it would line up with the edge of the bird section. She applied the brick section first and then applied the sky and ivy section with the ivy draping over the brick. She cut the brick section to line up with the sky section (you do not have to be EXACT) because the transfers are about 90% opaque and she didn't want any of the brick showing through the lighter sky. That was really the only modification, and it was easy to do. We think it really ties the brick and bird section together.
We just wanted to show you another way to apply this fun and versatile mural! It certainly works well as separate elements also. Have fun and send us some pictures of the design in your home and we will post them here.
A customer's BEFORE picture...
...and his AFTER picture! Thanks for sending us this photo!
Another great set of
customer photos!
Before......and after-using the wrought iron design.
Our Flowering Vine Design
used in a pretty way
by one of our customers!
Another Flowering Vine design!
The Fleur de lis used as a
border in a bathroom. Looks pretty on the aqua-blue walls!
Here is a table that was picked up at Target on clearance for $3.79! It was dressed up with our Gerber Daisy Design in less than 20 minutes for a fantastic accent table for a girl's room!
