I wonder what my tasteful friends think of indoor murals?

Giulio Romano's murals in The Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy, are swell.

I have a reproduction of the Sixtine Chapel on my bedroom ceiling and North Wall. It freaks out some of my trysts.

There are good ones and there are poor or even bad ones. You also have to consider does the theme or aesthetic go with the decor, because even if the mural is well done, it can be out of place with the furniture.

If I bought a house with a mural, I’d feel guilty painting over it. So I might just not buy the house if I didn’t like it.

My favorites are in the Villa D'Este.

I like them. I'm on board with any type of creativity that goes into a house. White minimalism is out.

Depends on size and interior of the home. Like with anything, most decorative items can become a monstrosity in the wrong hands.

This isn’t about murals in monumental buildings or palaces. We don’t need to see photos of those

It’s about murals in contemporary private residences.

They can get ornate

R9 - that's a granny flex - when Grandma Marie is tired of demure and understated. I hate it. But it's probably by some young female designer who wants to 'lean in' on traditional.

That's a new thing - granny core or cottage core. Boring and safe. I don't know what it is about women who want farm sinks and reproduction fake charm everywhere.

Typically you should also just pick one space to do. Like perhaps just the entryway or the dining room, or the stairway, or just one wall.

I think they’re very personal and semi-permanent like tattoos. I don’t want to design around a mural for ever and I love seeing my walls in different circumstances - sometimes cheap and sucking dick through chainlink and sometimes enduring and steal-spined like Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

STEEL!

[quote]I like them. I'm on board with any type of creativity that goes into a house. White minimalism is out.

I'm with R6, anything is better than sterile, soulless minimalism - even worse when its grey!

I like R9's example, very cool room - and it looks like they've managed to "hide" a biggish flatscreen TV in plain sight in there, that's clever. That room has a very calming feel, the more I look at it the more I like what they've done, even with some pretty indifferent furniture (the table looks like some cheap plastic outdoor thing from Walmart but you dont notice it as the mural draws your eye away from it which is just as well)

R14 - the problem with grey is that it became used for EVERYTHING - gray walls, gray furniture, gray-shaded flooring, etc. It became paired with white and oatmeal to be this pseudo-coastal light and open look when really what people needed was better lighting.

It's a shame - because gray is visually offensive to me almost as bad as the shit-brown from the 70s. And brown was everywhere for a long time too.

I don’t think that’s a big screen TV with stuff in front of it. And the hideous table and chairs do ruin the space. Not to mention whatever is on the dining table. Is it piles of moss?

I like anything that breaks up the monotony of todays decor trends.

NFW. Too "busy."

The worst of what people used to get from using wallpaper.

Thomas Jayne's old south mural in his French Quarter apartment.

R8 OP you know for a fact we Happy Few do not live in modest Palladian villas?

My parents' rec room had a mural of thatched cottages on one wall. Loved it as a kid. My mother hated it.

When I bought my house one of my artist friends wanted to paint a mural for me. I didn’t reject the idea immediately but held off, explaining that I wanted to take my time and settle in, plan renovations and design. He got really aggressive after that, really pushing for me to allow him do it. I flat out told him no and he still brings it up all the time many years later.

I like 60's wallpaper prints like this.

[QUOTE]Not to mention whatever is on the dining table. Is it piles of moss?

I can't believe nobody's mentioned it yet. Yes, r16, it's a pile of moss topped with a GIGANTIC SNAIL!. Who the hell tops their dining room table with something associated with slime that eats your garden? Seriously, what iis wrong with some people?

Sorry about the caps. I just feel very strongly about it.

Too busy and anxiety inducing for me.

The dining room at R9 looks very Dallas to me.

I think murals can be nice and I like the idea of one

I’m fond of the ones you can sometimes find in historic mansions, when they’re like intricate frescos.

I liked the nature photomurals you used to see in the 70s and 80s. A mural can be subtle or garish, it can fit with the overall decor or not. It's hard to generalize. The ones posted by OP are fine, but I wouldn't want to look at that big abstract one every day.

I like the French wallpaper ones.

Sorry, R25, but I’d suck the dick that put together that room. Fabulous.

R30 those are very fucking cool. I like

R29 Our local ice cream parlor had that same nature mural. When I was a kid I always wanted the big mural of the moonscape for my bedroom.