Want to paint around a mural-any suggestions?

Question

My walls are dusty lavender, and I want to paint them a wine,burgundy color without covering a mural that is on two walls and meet in the corner. Does anyone have any creative ideas on how to paint around these murals without covering them? Should I just cameo them, and would it look dumb? I painted the murals myself, and am pretty proud of them, and would like to keep them. My comforter set is burgundy, antique gold, and greens, so I thought the wine/burgundy paint would be pretty. There are three windows in the room, and the room is 16x18. I was worried that the lavender paint peeking through the dark paint would not look good. Any creative suggestions out there? Thankyou

Answer 1

cameo, them in and pick up the gold accent by painting a frame around them in gold. that will help break up the lavender "peeking" out of the wine color.

Answer 2

For the mural, let me suggest this. I have seen in a restaurant that I went to a mural that was framed with an old window frame. It looked really unique, (obviously, because I still remember it) and vintage at the same time. If you paint a frame around it, it could end up looking tacky. I would put a real frame around it of some sort. You could glue whatever you wanted on a frame and then put the frame up around it. You could use wicker, buttons, cloth, rocks....you name it! Make sure you use a primer before you paint, and it won't let the lavender "peek" through the dark paint. Just in case you were talking about the lavender around the mural...make sure you avoid this at all cost. That wouldn't look good at all! Use a frame, paint as close to the mural as possible!

Answer 3

I had a mural on my wall also when I decided to change colors. I just painted around the mural making a cameo of it. Or you could paint in a truomp-loi frame around it so that it would look like a large painting. Mine was a lighthouse scene and I used the large rope used by ships to frame it after painting around it. Just either tape off the mural to get nice edges when you paint or blend, fade, the mural into the new paint with the left over paint from the mural. But if you love it and are proud of what you have done don't cover it!

Answer 4

Hi , I read your problem, I think that if you choose burgundy for your walls, it should be at least 3or 4 shadys lighter, but still in the same shade as your bed spread. Your bed is the first focus when walking into your bedroom, making your walls the same color as your bed spread , you would be breaking the important rule in decorating "first impression" when walking into a room , to much of any thing takes away from focusing your beautiful mural or your bed . Now about your mural, have you ever hearded of glazing ,its translucent . You had a small amount of the color you choose with the glazing , or choose a pearlescent or Metallic glaze EASY stiff. just take time to go to a hardware store (any of them ) go to the paint section ,ask them about Faux finishes, Behr has a complete set up for this . It is so cool

Answer 5

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