Today, more people are ignoring trends and choosing the color schemes that they want to live with, without regard for what interior decorators or trends dictate. Don't choose a color scheme unless you love it and it resonates with you. That's the only thing you should take into consideration. I wonder how many burnt orange shag rugs would have gathered dust on the shelves if people had only done that.

The Big Question: art or wall?
We have had variations of the following conversation more times than we can count:
Customer: Hello. I want to buy a tumbled stone tile wall mural. My room is gold, white, off-white and has some touches of green. I would like to get (insert art piece name here) because it has the same gold color and I want to pick up some of the green, which is in the image background and matches perfectly. Do you have any suggestions for me?
Us : Since you've asked, yes. Don't buy art that matches your decor. Buy art that makes your heart sing every time you look at it.

Mural Magic
If you are considering a tile wall mural, consider some of the wonderfully creative and dynamic looks you can create for your home. For example, on our home page, our header graphic shows three versions of the same art piece but in different colors. This graphic was based on a recent project we did for a customer who loves color and is unafraid of trying unusual ways to display it in her home. Instead of one large glass tile mural, we ended up doing three smaller ones, side by side, of the very same image but in different hues. Another possibility is separating two or three murals by dividing the same image, having it flow across the wall with breaks in between. Or you can do two, three or even four different images in the very same mural. For one customer, I added the words, "hope," "faith" and "charity" in a beautiful, elegant script font (with diminished opacity so you could still see the image beneath) across "The Three Graces" for her tumbled stone mural. Bottom line? Murals are astonishingly beautiful whether you display them traditionally or not. If you like these ideas for your home, we can take any image you choose and either divide it for you to make multiple murals, or we can selectively change the colors of the art which results in a beautiful, colorful designer look, a wonderful technique that will totally remake your room.

Marvelous Mixing and Matching
Picking up your mural image and using it for matching accent pieces is guaranteed to give the "main event," the mural, even more impact. Be creative and have fun by using the same image for a piece of furniture, serving trays, placemats and napkins, wall sconces, switchplates, coaster sets, keepsake boxes, etc. You can even crop part of the image and use the cropped part instead of the whole image. Imagine your beautiful wall mural with a matching end table, console table or plant stand, custom stained and grouted. For coasters, you can take cropped pieces of the mural as well, instead of using the full image for each coaster.

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