Painted Wall

Bathrooms & Childrens' Rooms

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Postcard

Create a window looking out over a collage of images from a trip to France, including a medieval village, Sacre Coeur, and Notre Dame.

A three part window was created, to provide three different views as the mural was glimpsed on walking past the room. Paint colours were chosen to work with the times and exisitng paint colours in the room.

Pavilion

All round fairies in the playroom for two girls aged 5 & 6.

As the house was formal, with high ceilings, we created a curtained Pavilion, by painting columns "supporting" the picture rail and draped with sheer curtains. Each wall became a different imaginary landscape that could be seen from the pavillion. – Each wall view was set at a different time of day, depending on the direction it faced.

Grace Jolly painted the fine detail and translucent wings for all the fairies. Grace is a ceramicist and porcelain painter.

Boys' Room – Frogs and Dolphins

Two brothers shared an attic bedroom, with a red brick chimney running through it. One collected frogs, the other sponsored a dolphin with the Dolphin Research Society. The design solution was an all-round mural that went from river, to red river Murray cliffs next to the chimney, to sea (complete with active volcano), to beach and back to hills and the river. Realistic, rather than cartoon images were chosen, so that the boys did not grow out of the mural too quickly. Thanks to Dr Mike Bossley of the Dolphin Research Society for the original photos of Port Adelaide dolphins.

Swimming With Dolphins

This was a hot upstairs bathroom with an awkward circular wall intruding. The daughter was keen on dolphins – so an all round underwater scene was painted – with both a receding sandy sea floor, and lightening of the water towards the surface to create a sense of space and distance.

I’d Rather Live At The Beach

Designed for a windowless bathroom, it created the fantasy of having a house built on sand hills, looking out over Long Beach, Robe. It was painted on a fully sealed MDF panel and installed with minimal disruption to a one-bathroom household. The rest of the bathroom was painted a soft sandstone colour.

Ideas for Designs: Bathrooms and Childrens' rooms are a lot of fun – they can both be rooms of dreams.
While most parents want a final say in what goes into the child’s mural, children love to be involved in developing themes and ideas for their room. Murals for very young children can be put on panels, so that as they grow out of them, they can be stored away for the next generation.
Water based paints are recommended – as there are good protective finishes for them that do not yellow.

	Postcard Create a window looking out over a collage of images from a trip to France, including a medieval village, Sacre Coeur, and Notre Dame.
	A three part window was created, to provide three different views as the mural was glimpsed on walking past the room. Paint colours were chosen to work with the times and exisitng paint colours in the room.

	Pavilion All round fairies in the playroom for two girls aged 5 & 6. As the house was formal, with high ceilings, we created a curtained Pavilion, by painting columns "supporting" the picture rail and draped with sheer curtains. Each wall became a different imaginary landscape that could be seen from the pavillion. – Each wall view was set at a different time of day, depending on the direction it faced.
	Grace Jolly painted the fine detail and translucent wings for all the fairies. Grace is a ceramicist and porcelain painter.

	Boys' Room – Frogs and Dolphins Two brothers shared an attic bedroom, with a red brick chimney running through it. One collected frogs, the other sponsored a dolphin with the Dolphin Research Society. The design solution was an all-round mural that went from river, to red river Murray cliffs next to the chimney, to sea (complete with active volcano), to beach and back to hills and the river. Realistic, rather than cartoon images were chosen, so that the boys did not grow out of the mural too quickly. Thanks to Dr Mike Bossley of the Dolphin Research Society for the original photos of Port Adelaide dolphins.

	Swimming With Dolphins This was a hot upstairs bathroom with an awkward circular wall intruding. The daughter was keen on dolphins – so an all round underwater scene was painted – with both a receding sandy sea floor, and lightening of the water towards the surface to create a sense of space and distance.

	I’d Rather Live At The Beach Designed for a windowless bathroom, it created the fantasy of having a house built on sand hills, looking out over Long Beach, Robe. It was painted on a fully sealed MDF panel and installed with minimal disruption to a one-bathroom household. The rest of the bathroom was painted a soft sandstone colour.

Ideas for Designs:	Bathrooms and Childrens' rooms are a lot of fun – they can both be rooms of dreams. While most parents want a final say in what goes into the child’s mural, children love to be involved in developing themes and ideas for their room. Murals for very young children can be put on panels, so that as they grow out of them, they can be stored away for the next generation. Water based paints are recommended – as there are good protective finishes for them that do not yellow.