Announcing Kristin Nicholas' Colorful Wallpaper Mural from Casart Coverings

Remember last fall when our farmhouse was featured with photos by Rikki Snyder on the Houzz website here? Did you read the brouhaha in the comments section? If you didn't, check it out here. That whole Houzz experience was a giant eye-opener for me. Are people really that afraid of color? Of using bright bold vivid gorgeous color in their living spaces? Do people decorate their homes thinking only of re-sale value? Do people live in fear of expressing their own taste and personality in their living spaces? Yes, many people are. 

Photo Rikki Snyder via Houzz

Thank goodness that some people aren't. I got an e-mail from a woman named Ashley. She loved my mural and she and her mom and sister own a wallpaper company called Casart Coverings. Would I be interested in painting a mural for them that would be sold on their website? "Be still my heart" I was saying to myself as I tried to speak with composure on the telephone. I was actually jumping up and down! I learned a little more about the project. About the product the mural would be printed on. About how I would be compensated. And then I ran with it 

Here it is - my mural - It is called the Garden of Family Farm Life. Available for the world to buy.....

Thanks to the new world of printing and technology, my technicolor wall mural - with over 15 colors in it, can be printed. Before digital technology, individual screens would have to be cut for each color, making wallpaper extremely expensive and unaffordable to most homeowners. The Garden of Family Farm Life Mural is made of 3 separate panels which I painted here in my studio. My paintings were turned into a digital file and delivered to Casart.

The Casart wallpaper is re-positionable and removable. No messy wallpaper paste! The back of the paper is coated with an adhesive similar to a post-it note. If you get tired of the mural, or you move, the wallpaper mural can be taken down and with you. Or it can be moved to a different room. You can watch a video of installing the Casart wallpaper here on their YouTube Channel.

The paper comes in 2 paper weights - "regular" and "lightweight". It also comes in two heights - 8 and 10 feet tall and two widths - 44 and 52" wide. The photo below shows the 3 panels on a plain white background.

You can purchase one, two or all three. You can use then as a panel in a room you want to bring a new design element to. You can cover an entire wall or room. Casart has chosen NINE other background shades as shown below. Check out this page on their website for a larger version.

Here's another cool thing made possible by the digital technology - if you don't like their choices, you can choose your very own background color and they can print the mural with your color. They will sample your color choice for you so that you can make sure you like it. 

A sample set is available for a small charge which is creditable towards your order. I received a set the other day and I have photographed the against the walls in our dining room below. Note that the scale of the design that is on the sample is much smaller than the actual mural. This was necessary so that you can get the feel of the painting and overall design. I painted the Casart mural so that when blown up, it will be to a similar scale as in our dining room.

A note about the two different weights. The "regular weight" has a slight pebbly texture to it. Ashley says it is extremely durable and easy to move to a new location. The "lightweight" has a smoother finish but is not quite as durable or easy to move and reposition. If you have questions, direct them to the folks at Casart. (Mention that you saw the write-up here on my blog.) Above are the samples that they will send you. They show the mural on all the different background colors. As you can see on the photo below, the Pumpkin Sunset colorway is the the closest to the color background I painted on our dining room walls.

 

I'll be happy to answer any questions. Either leave them in the comments or send them directly via email. The folks at Casart are extremely helpful. It's a new world and I am really happy to be learning about new opportunities and technologies to make the world a prettier place. Have a great weekend everyone!