I’m still working on finalizing the changes I’m making in the living room and entryway after the new floral mural goes up on the entryway wall. The changes I’m making in the living room are minor. I’m moving the bird pictures that used to hang on the entryway wall to another wall in the living room, and then I need to finish repairs to the mural where I cut the holes for the sconce wires. And finally I have to decide on table lamps. I’ve been looking but haven’t made a decision yet.
In the meantime, I was wondering if there was a place I could use the rest of the mural in the house. The options are pretty limited, and in fact I can only think of one place where they would work.
To review: The mural I purchased is approximately 20 feet wide and 10 feet tall. It’s this Paradise Tropical Floral wall mural from Anthropologie (affiliate link). I bought it a while ago when it was on sale and at the time I had no idea what to do with it, but I knew I wanted it.
I used most of it on the entrance wall. I absolutely love how this transformed this wall in the living room and I’m still working on all the details of how I want to finish this wall. All of the items on the console table are just substitutes, so I was able to play around with different arrangements.
But I only have two feet of this mural left that didn’t fit on this wall. This is the part that is left. I know it doesn’t look like it’s almost two meters wide in this picture, but that’s because the mural is 3 meters high. But each section is 27 inches wide and I still have three full sections left.
The whole thing is so pretty that I really don’t want to waste it. I would like to find a place to use it. The problem is that I don’t have any more wall space. I just finished our master bedroom, so there’s obviously no room for a mural there. There is no space for this in the music room or living room. The kitchen is out of the question. And my studio is finished, and even if I had wall space for it in the studio, it doesn’t fit the decor anyway.
The only The room this mural could fit in is in our breakfast room. This room is set up as a living room for now, but I would like to convert it back into a breakfast room (actually a dining room) in the near future. But at the moment it looks like this…kind of.
I say “sort of” because over the last year I’ve moved a lot of items out of this room to use in other areas of the house. The curtains are now hanging in my walk-in closet. One of the benches and a few pillows are in the foyer of our bedroom suite. The Fruit of the Spirit artwork is now in my walk-in closet. Therefore, this room now needs a renovation and this renovation was on my list of 2026 house goals.
One option is to use the leftover mural in two sections and frame them so that they flank the pantry doors. I don’t have enough to cover the entire wall, but using it in two sections within the picture frame molding gives me enough for that. Each wall section is 53 inches wide and I have enough mural to cover 40.5 inches on each side of the pantry door. I could attach the mural directly to the wall like wallpaper or use it as a framed piece of art that hangs on the wall. At the moment the only thing left on these walls are the two black sconces, but I plan on taking them down.
The only problem is that I don’t like the tile mural in the pantry. But I still thought about replacing this tile so I don’t let it stop me from doing what I want to do in the breakfast room.
Another option would be that I could mount it on the larger wall in the breakfast room. Of course that would mean taking down my picture shelves.
It would also have to be inside the picture frame molding on this wall since this wall is 98 inches wide and I only have 81 inches of wall painting left.
I’m still thinking about it. Obviously I haven’t decided on anything yet. And maybe just having the mural on the entry wall and then more murals in the breakfast room is too much. You can tell me what you think. Is it too much? I just hate losing almost six feet of this beautiful mural. And since I’ve already taken so much out of the breakfast room to use elsewhere in the house, I basically start over in the breakfast room anyway.
I don’t know when I’ll actually start the breakfast room, but it’s on my list this year, so I’m spending a lot of time thinking about it and making plans. I have absolutely no idea what to do on the walls next to the pantry doors. I’ve been thinking about adding full wall storage but I really don’t need it. I’ve thought about using narrow matching buffets on either side with artwork above them, but again, I don’t really want or need to add more storage, so I think that would just look busy and make the room seem smaller. I like the idea of ​​adding the framed mural as a piece of art and then using that area for additional dining chairs or something similar.
But again, before I delve too deeply into this line of thinking, can you let me know if you think adding more of this mural is too much. I don’t want it to go to waste, but at the same time I don’t want to use it when it feels like I added it just because I couldn’t bring myself to let it go. I can’t decide if this makes the rooms look cohesive or if it looks like I just had leftovers that I wanted to use.
