I’m still working on finishing up the changes that I’m making in the living room and entryway now that the new floral wall mural is up on the entryway wall. The changes I’m making in the living room are minor. I’m relocating the bird pictures that used to be on the entryway wall to another wall in the living room, and then I need to finish up the repairs on the wall mural where I had cut the holes for the wall sconce wires. And finally, I still need to decide on table lamps. I’ve been searching, but so far, I haven’t made a decision.
In the meantime, I’ve been wondering if there’s a spot where I can use the rest of the mural in the house. The options are pretty limited, and in fact, I can only think of one spot where they’ll work.
To review, the mural I bought is about 20 feet wide and 10 feet tall. It’s this Paradise Tropical Floral wall mural from Anthropologie (affiliate link). I bought it a while back when it was on sale, and at the time, I had no idea what I was going to do with it, but I knew I wanted it. 😀
I used the bulk of it on the entryway wall. I absolutely love how this transformed this wall in the living room, and I’m still working through all of the details of how I want to finish up this wall. All of the items on top of the console table are just stand ins so that I could play around with different arrangements.
But I’m left with just under seven feet of this mural that didn’t fit on this wall. This is the portion that was left over. I know it doesn’t seem like it’s almost seven feet wide from this picture, but that’s because the mural is 10 feet high. But each section is 27 inches wide, and I have three whole sections left over.
The whole thing is so pretty, so I really don’t want this to go to waste. I’d love to find a place to use it. The problem is that I’ve run out of wall space. I’ve just finished up our master bedroom suite, so obviously there’s no space in there for a wall mural. There’s no space in the music room or living room for it. The kitchen is out of the question. And my studio is all finished, and even if I had wall space for it in the studio, it doesn’t go with the decor anyway.
The only room where this mural could go is in our breakfast room. That room is set up as a sitting room for now, but I do want to change it back to a breakfast room (really, a dining room) in the very near future. But for now, it looks like this…kind of.
I say “kind of” because over the last year, I’ve poached a lot of items from this room to use in other areas of the house. The curtains are now in my walk-in closet. One of the benches and a couple of the pillows are in our bedroom suite foyer. The “fruit of the spirit” artwork is now in my walk-in closet. So this room is now in need of a makeover, and this makeover was on my list of House Goals for 2026.
One option is to use the leftover mural in two sections and frame them to flank the pantry doors. I don’t have enough to cover the entire wall, but if I use it in two sections inside picture frame molding, I have 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 apply the mural directly to the wall like wallpaper, or I could use them as framed artwork that hangs on the wall. Right now, the only things left on these walls now are the two black sconces, but I plan to take those down.
The only problem is that I don’t love the mural with the tile in the pantry. But I’ve been thinking about replacing that tile anyway, so I won’t let that tile stop me from doing what I want to do in the breakfast room.
Another option is that I could use it on the bigger wall in the breakfast room. Of course, that would mean taking down my picture ledge shelves.
It would need to be inside picture frame molding on this wall as well because this wall is 98 inches wide, and I only have 81 inches of mural left over.
I’m still thinking through it. Obviously, I haven’t decided on anything yet. And maybe it’s too much to have the mural on the entryway wall, and then more mural in the breakfast room. You can tell me what you think. Is it too much? I just hate to lose almost seven feet of this gorgeous mural. And since I’ve poached so much from the breakfast room to use elsewhere in the house, I’ll basically be starting over in the breakfast room anyway.
I don’t know when I’ll actually start on the breakfast room, but it’s on my list for this year, so I do spend a lot of time thinking about it and making plans. I’ve been at a complete loss for what to do on those walls flanking the pantry doors. I’ve thought 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, 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 feel smaller. I kind of like the idea of adding the mural framed as artwork, and then using that area for extra dining chairs or something like that.
But again, before I get too far into this line of thinking, you can let me know if you think adding more of this wall 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 if it will feel like I added it just because I couldn’t bring myself to let it go. I can’t decide if it will make the rooms look cohesive, or if it will look like I just had scraps that I wanted to use. 😀
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Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.