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Have your murals painted on a special cloth with a repositionable backing and you can take your mural with you when you move.
The dictionary definition of a mural is: a painting or other work of art executed directly on a wall. While most of our murals are site specific and painted directly on the wall, there are times when that might not be the best option.
Here is a solution that is quite simple. We can paint it on Roc-lon cloth. Roc-lon is the fabric that is used for blackout shades. It is very durable, doesn’t fray when cut, and has a very fine weave. It can be installed with wallpaper paste, but easier still, is our nifty hot wax device. We roll a thin layer of adhesive wax on the back and then it works like a giant sticky note. We bring the mural to your house already waxed, and apply it directly on the wall.
We've put up some these pics before, with the Sidewalk Sale posting, so apologies for the double-up. But they're the same stuff.
What if you suspect that you may change your mind & decide that you would prefer your mural in the Living Room instead of the Dining Room? Or a shop display that may move as you periodically re-arrange. You may know that you will be moving in a couple of years, yet don’t want to live with bare walls until then. So this way you can take the mural with you. Or you have a business that can’t be closed for 4 days, but you’d love 4 window views & fake patio. We can come in and put up your windows in an afternoon, if they are pre-painted.
Another great idea is to do a faux finish directly on the wall, then do a feature or detail piece on the Roc-lon. This way you get an integrated feel - for example; painting faux stone on the walls directly, then doing a big stone arch with a Tuscan scene on the Roc-lon cloth. Then you’ve kept your higher-priced painting (the mural feature) as a to-go option. If you move - you only have to get the new room re-painted with the faux stone. You can feel good that you got what you wanted, saved money, and took advantage of a clever trick, to boot!
Debby is posing here (made a good pic for the Northshore magazine ad) ... the jungle scene is one of the Sidewalk Sale pieces. We just put it up there for the picture. But that's another place that it is a lot easier to not paint directly on the wall.
  
Stairwell. No backing up to look at how the painting is going. And an awkward hot space to be working in.
We do a variation of the finish-and-prepainted idea with Kid Snips, when we re-do their salons. They don’t want to be closed any longer than necessary. They want to cut hair! Sell toys! So we pre-paint the zap-pow shapes on wallpaper, zoom in when given the go-ahead, strie the walls, paper up the shapes, add shadows, paint a few shapes down low (no pre-painted down low, small fingers find edges way too amusing to pick at), and zoom out again. This way we cut a 2 week job down to 4 days, with only 2 and 1/2 days closed-time.
 
The wallpaper thing is removable, not movable - but that pre-painting business is some of the same idea. And if you own a business, especially anything with a storefront, we know you don’t want your doors closed any longer than necessary.
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