
The Water Closet | Beyond The Beige
We usually just visit the bathroom, so it is cool to make it a place you’d like to visit. Which doesn’t mean you have to live there, of course. Make it into: • A favorite vacation beach. Nantucket? • Dunes, waves, water…? • Choppy, wild, waves This is not a grey solution… Well… it could be, actually. Imagine a bathroom with a bleak & stormy grey beach… steel blues & grey in the sky, tree skeletons and tangled seaweed line the tide line. Wind lashes the waves as malignant

Weekend Hangout | Beyond the Beige
Are you spending a bit of time in a small room in the basement this weekend? Get a little grin with your laundry... add some bubbles or throw some shirts to the wind. Shower stalls and bathrooms can also support a few bubbles, of course, but you know you could use a bit of happy when hello your weekend starts with chores. And after that fun - woohoo! #funmural #murals #laundry #bathroom

Thru Space | Beyond The Beige
Bored with your doors? Think magic. Doors: they get you from A to B, from one room to another. Murals: they get you from A to B, one reality to another. Ah, what a great combo! A fun mural on the door leading to your garage, for instance, can give you a little Narnia action as you go to your car. You don't have to do the whole door to add a little fun. • Mural an existing door. Choose a trompe l’oeil type thing to add space that isn’t really there (like some nice Italian win

Leafy Finish
I love this finish as it is probably the most versatile Arty Finish I do. It’s cool because you can vary the density. Wallpaper doesn’t do that - you can’t wave your hand and say “I’d like more pattern in that corner there, but soften it up in that big middle area will you?”. Well, you can with this! It’s a hand-painted finish that brings a natural feel to a space. Costs around $8 - $15/sq foot depending on your foliage density requirements. You can cover a lot of space and g

The Wild Thing
One of a mural’s best uses? To let yourself GO with your creative groove. Who cares? It’s paint. You can go a little crazy and express those associations that your personal human neurons link to happiness. Then guess what… each time you see that wall you’ll get a little happy smile on your face. Because Good Lord, how often do we really get to let loose? It’ll probably be another 10 years before you want to redecorate that room again, which is 3652 little smiles worth of “So

Beyond the Beige in Business
Could your business use a splash of color? Get fiscal with pretty Sweet rewards! Illinois Nut & Candy in Evanston. When the owner of this delicious store chose to add an attention-grabbing, pepperminty mural to the storefront, sales increased 20% within one month. • Paint not pixels. The KidSnips chain zapped energy and fun into its locations by painting bright green strié with loud, funky shapes along their walls as part of a re-branding campaign. New look = increase in

Make a Splash
Got a nice pad? Life can be stressful, and your home is your oasis. Nothing says ‘soothe’ like a tranquil pond alive with gentle water rippling and koi swimming just under the surface. Painted on a concrete bathroom floor - Hyde Park, Chicago. Koi help you to unwind at home with the soothing effect of calming motion. Just one or two of these aquatic friends add life and movement to your living space. BUT HECK - who wants to deal with water ph, algae, and feeding etc 24/7??? W

Flying Kitties, Surfing Pups
Love your pets more than people, some days? Join the club. Bright and fun... one section of the front side of the counter for Fido's Food Fair. Let’s face it, puppies, kittens, and fish are part of the family. Personalize your customized mural by adding an imaginative image of your beloved one into a colorful scene. You don’t have to have a whole mural to support your pet. I mean, please don’t get me wrong… you can if you would like - (use us to paint large and extensive mur

Curtains For Tintin
Which just points out that I'm a foreigner. Except for some die-hard comic geeks & cartoon-buffs... here in the USA people haven't really heard of Tintin so it's not even a good joke. That's OK. I'm faux funny. :-) But "Oh no, Snowy... it looks like it's Curtains for Tintin!" goes thru my head every time I paint curtains, so lucky you, I shared. Anyway: here you go, curtains, obscure-foreigner style, and the effects of painting them... • to frame a stage or scene •