Now, however, murals are the latest way to give our walls more impact. Unlike wallpaper, which features a repeated motif, murals show one large image, pattern or scene. This works brilliantly both as a feature wall and wrapped around an entire room.
Casamance's large-scale Nahua design is inspired by indigenous Mexican frescoes. The intensity of the colours and the large scale of the design work well with this 1960s aesthetic. It comes in eight drops with a total width of over five metres, £1,292, casamance.
com Little Greene's Capricorn Boringdon mural (£262, littlegreene.com) is inspired by sections of 19th-century panels by historic French wallpaper-maker Zuber. It is supplied in three pieces, each 52cm wide and 3.
25m in height, which hang in sequence and can be repeated around the room. The paintwork here has been drenched in a dark tone, colour matched to the mural Murals can be custom-made for your space, and generally come in numbered panels, which are pasted to the wall, much in the same way as traditional wallpaper. However, if you don't want to fully commit, peel-and-stick murals could be an option.
They can be easily removed and repositioned, which makes them perfect for rental properties. The gold standard for any mural is a..
. Victoria Gray.
