How to Design a Room to Resemble Nature With Murals
Designing a mural for a room can be somewhat challenging, especially if it is a wrap-around design that will cover all the walls. Designing a room to have the look and feel of an outdoor room is especially rewarding when it is completed and can be worth the time and effort that is put into it, if done correctly. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Plant pictures Pictures of the type of nature scene being emulated Sketch pad Large graph paper Measuring tape
Instructions
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Research
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Look through magazines, books or the Internet to find pictures of different types of outside environments. For example: rainforest, jungle, desert, open field, forest, summer, spring, winter, etc. Copy, print or tear out anything that is appealing and save for later reference.
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Go through the pictures and decide which type of environment is best suited for the project. Keep all pictures that relate to this environment. For example: If a jungle has been decided upon, keep all pictures that pertain to jungle-like environments.
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Go back to the research magazines and web pages and find more pictures on that particular environment and its elements. Gather pictures of the individual plants and animals that are found in it.
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Sort through the pictures that were just pulled and pick out a good number of the most appealing plants and keep them. Set the rest of the pictures aside in case they are needed later.
Assembing the Pieces
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Start to form an idea of what this particular environment should look like. Envision standing in the middle of this environment--what would someone see? What would they hear? What would they feel?
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Write down what a person in that environment would see in front of them. In this "vision" turn to the right and write down what would be on their right, continue doing this for all the walls until you have a good idea of what the the mural should look like when it is complete.
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Sketch or write in words what each wall should contain. Glue or tape some of the pictures to this page for reference when speaking with the artist.
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Think about textures that can be added to the murals to help transition the murals into the room. For example: Is the carpet going to be changed to blend into the environment--perhaps a dark brown to emulate the rich rainforest soil or a natural carpet for a desert or tropical scene. If the design is for the inside of a hut on the beach, using bamboo matting on the walls can help to bring the feel of the tropics out of the walls and into the room.
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Write down any plants that are going to be used to enhance the feel as well as their approximate size. For instance, ferns can be a great addition to a tropical room, or using tropical plants, either hanging or standing, can help to transform a room. Be sure to stick to the type that would naturally be found in this environment.
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Draw a (somewhat to scale) representation of the room as if it were being looked into from above. Graph paper can be useful for this -- make each square equal six inches for example, so that every two squares would equal one foot. So if the room were 15 feet long, it would be 30 squares long on the paper.
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Draw out the ideas that were sketched out on the individual sketch pad pages representing each wall. This doesn't have to be a great drawing. Furniture or plants can be represented by boxes or circles or crude drawings, but make everything as much to scale as possible.
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