Custom Wallpaper Design: Circuit Board Wallpaper

Back in the early 80's as a child, there was nothing cooler than breaking open an old Simon game or other toy with a circuit board. The maze of components in different shapes and sizes arranged down multiple connection points always evoked similarities to the look of a small city from the future. It's influences from childhood like this that inspire some of the best custom wall murals that you're bound to love for aesthetic as well as nostalgic reasons.

We think circuit boards are beautiful; they're often quite colorful and compositionally have many interesting features, repetition, pattern and balance. The circuit board custom wallpaper that we're featuring in the inspiration room has strong teal and navy blue colors present. The wall mural gets a lot of visual interest from all the components scattered around the board; all of the circular elements are particularly effective at giving the wallpaper an engaging look.

This custom wallpaper project is perfect for those technologically inclined. If you've ever made disassembling machines a hobby or have ever been called a "nerd", this custom wall mural is the perfect way to wear your advanced understanding of electronics on your sleeve, all the while looking like a trend setter in the process. If designers and stylists are those who typically inform interior decor trends, this is the mural that will definitely appeal to those more left-brained individuals who aren't afraid to let the right side shine.

Website Redesign: Great Wall Custom Coverings

Here at Great Wall Custom Coverings, we toil day and night to bring you the absolute best custom wallpaper and wall murals available today, and we love what we do. However, sometimes you need to take a break and invest a little time back in yourself. That's exactly what we did with our website this week; we gave the homepage its very own day of beauty.

We liked the old homepage, but it was time to freshen up. We still have the same information and imagery for custom wallpaper, but we've added a few new features. Namely, we've added links to our satellite interior decor and event decor websites. We've already blogged about our other interior decor sites, Wallgazer and Mosaic Tile Wallpaper. We're now featuring a link to our event decor site Bar Mitzvah Backdrops, we we specialize in printing large scenic backdrops for special events.

With these changes in place, check back soon for more updates. We'll be featuring different custom wallpaper installation photos and blog entries that you may have missed, or certainly missed, or whichever! Plus, we'll be launching a few more satellite decor sites in the very near future as well. You'll be updated via our blog, but soon you'll be able to reach these sites from the Great Wall homepage as well. We hope you enjoy the new look and feel of our website!

Custom Wallpaper Design: Playing With Juxtaposition

The custom wall mural we're featuring today is one of our new Wallgazer wallpaper designs available at www.Wallgazer.net. The mural, designed by Andi Kubacki, is titled "Factory Light." A design based on factory windows that you'd see dotting the rust belt. The mural image itself is a study in juxtaposition; broken glass and disintegrating window glazing bespeaking a broken down, unkempt factory facade. But the vibrant greens and blues have such a cheerful, positive disposition that the combination creates a slightly jarring reaction.

The installation of the custom wall mural continues the theme of juxtaposition. Add this edgy, slightly grungy mural to a clean-lined contemporary room, and the dueling forces of of decay and perfection come full circle. Custom wallpaper is particularly effective at evoking such emotions as custom wallcoverings are so unexpected and original, and have so much more life than traditional mass produced wallpaper as a whole.

Of course, if the blighted post-industrial aesthetic isn't your cup of tea, this notion of juxtaposition can be applied to any room with whichever custom wallpaper imagery you choose. Think of a vibrantly colored wall mural in a space decorated in mostly whites and neutrals, or a very modern wallpaper pattern mingling in a formal dining room populated with antiques. Whichever way you approach your custom wallpaper installation, giving a nod to juxtaposition will certainly give your guests something to talk about.

Custom Wallpaper Design: Decorating With Stripes

We absolutely love stripes on a wall. Vertical stripes instantly add a feeling of height to a room, while horizontal stripes enhance a feeling of spaciousness. Random stripes, stripes varying in width and color are one of the most visually interesting ways to cover your walls. In fact, we painted a wall of stripes in our studio about four years ago when we moved in. The process of taping lines and re-taping took just over 14 hours for a single large wall. That's a time investment we can no longer afford; the solution: stripe custom wallpaper!

Consider an artist like Mark Rothko. His paintings that usually consisted of only a few broad swaths of color is about as high art as you can take the stripe. Use this artistic inspiration for the jumping off point for a stripe custom wallpaper installation. Your stripe wallpaper may have a rough outline like a Rothko painting, graphic in nature but with a very organic sensibility. You may like a cleaner, sharply outlined stripe wallpaper like the inspiration room above, which features a multi-colored striped wall mural, with a graphic silhouette of flowers mingled at the bottom.

Stripes allow you complete freedom to experiment with mixing many colors. Custom stripe wallpaper lets you use colors in combinations that may not have been so easily achievable with off the shelf decor products. Mixing the scale of the stripes is another way to customize your stripe wallpaper. Broad stripes emphasize a feeling of space in a room, while tighter stripes evoke a more classic wallpaper pattern, but offer a lot of detail upon closer inspection. So whether you like a thick, thin, vertical or horizontal stripe, our designers will be able to create the stripe covered wall that you've always wanted but haven't had the time to paint.

Custom Wallpaper Project: Dining Room Wall Mural

Custom wallpaper installations are well suited for just about anywhere in your home. The one space in our homes that none of us use enough is our dining room. With families so busy and time always in short supply, it's a wonder sometimes if you even see your family, let alone dine together.

That's why we propose a custom wall mural in your dining room, in hopes that the wallpaper will be so captivating that not only meals, but homework, coffee, and socializing will always take place there. Our wall murals are always a conversation piece, and should dinner conversation grow stale, tell the tale of how your custom wallpaper installation came to be!

In the inspiration room shown, we suggest using a subtle image in black and white. Black and white custom wallpaper imagery always has such a chic quality, the prefect backdrop for a formal dinner. Focusing on a more ambient image as opposed to a very busy wallpaper pattern may lend itself well to your decor. If you have a more colorful palette and accessories, go with a wall mural with more energy and presence. Use your own image to create a unique dining room custom mural that will be a feast for your guests' eyes.

Mosaic Tile Wallpaper: Mosaic Wall Mural

At our sister site Mosaic Tile Wallpaper, we've created a line of faux tile wallpaper that looks as authentic as real tile. Depending on your taste, you can select from different tile finishes, such as tumbled marble, rustic glass tile and art glass. These tile textures are then printed to wallpaper according to your color choice. Once installed, our custom mosaic tile wallpaper is perfect for a unique but understated wall.

If you want a custom wallpaper installation with a tile look but with more punch, consider a mosaic tile wallpaper mural. This is a great custom wallpaper project because it allows you to use your own photo. Again, you pick the tile texture that best suits your taste. With that tile texture in hand, we then use our original process to make your photograph look like an authentic mosaic tile installation.

The image above is such an example. Our client wanted to use this image as a purely photographic wall mural. However, the resolution of the image was poor, so the custom wallpaper wouldn't have been photorealsitic. To sidestep this problem, we gave the image our mosaic tile wallpaper treatment, and as you can see the result is gorgeous. We've discussed problematic images before, those that are too low-resolution to print clearly. The mosaic tile wallpaper solution is a great way to be able to still use the image you want, without having to worry about pixilation.

Wallgazer Wallpaper Design: Drugs Saved My Life

Today we are featuring a wall mural that is available for purchase at Wallgazer. The mural, titled "Drugs Saved My Life," is the spirit of Prozac Nation embodied in wallpaper. Prozac Nation, written by Elizabeth Wurtzel and published in 1994, is a memoir documenting the author's struggle with depression. With the use of prescribed psychotropic medication, the author finds better living through chemicals, while still negotiating the demands of everyday life and dealing with the stigma associated with mental illness.

Our wall mural wallpaper featuring a pattern of slick orange and white pills is anything but depressing. And though the mural is colorful and vibrant, it still offers a less than light-heated commentary on modern society and our obsession with prescription medication. As with many of our original wallpaper designs at Wallgazer, "Drugs Saved My Life" is not only intended to be decorative, but also expressive.

In keeping with our ability to further customize and personalize our wall murals, you can opt to have the pill colors changed to mesh better with your current decor scheme. Additionally, the scale of the pills in the mural can be altered to give you a collection of larger pills, or an even tighter pattern of smaller pills. Check out this and our other available Wallgazer wallpaper designs here!