Framed Scenic Mural Panels
3 Ways Designers Frame
Our Wallpaper
Maybe you want a mural you can take with you to a new house. Maybe you aren’t ready for the commitment of a full wallpaper installation. Or, maybe you just like the look of framed wallpaper. I do!
Framing and wallpaper installation are their own art forms, so the details are best left to professionals. But, I can offer up some general advice on the subject.
We’ve seen clients frame our artwork in three ways:
1. By stretching them over stretcher bars, like a traditional oil painting, and putting a frame around them.
Note: your installer will need to use some of the usual 35″ width to wrap around stretcher bars that rest behind the frame, so your finished panel width will be narrower than 35, more like 32″ width for the artwork, plus the width of whatever frame you choose.)
Above is a grand entryway with 3 framed panels of Barringtons Mist mural, photographed by Jovian Lim. In the bright bedroom to the right, The Fox Group framed 3 panels of our Barringtons Cool wallpaper. Photographed by Lindsay Salazar Photography.
2. By applying picture frame moldings to your walls and having a wallpaper installer paste them into the moldings.
You can have a woodworker create a frame of applied molding on the wall, and your paperhanger pastes strips of mural wallpaper inside it. Each strip is about 35” wide. They can apply several strips of wallpaper side by side to fill the frame. You’ll have seams, but a good paperhanger can do this in a way that is nearly invisible.
3. By mounting them to an archival board, using archival glues, and then framing them under glass.
