Friday, December 26, 2008

Several Reasons to Have a Wall Mural in Your Home

By Maria S. Parasiewicz

We all seek happiness through living in beautiful surroundings. It is part of our nature to appreciate beauty both indoors and out. It is something that has always been with us, regardless to whether we are enjoying the outdoors or spending time inside our home. We eternally value the joy we find in the beauty around us.

The following are 10 different reasons why you may think to get a wall mural for yourself:

Add Style and Beauty to Your Surroundings

Allow Your Imagination to Run Free

Improve Your Personal Appreciation of Your Home

A Wall Mural Helps to Bring Peace to Your Life

Add Balance to Your Home and Life Through Variety

A Wall Mural Lasts Forever

Explore Your Abilities in Art and Creativity

A Wall Mural Is Unique to Your Home

Make a Personal Statement

Add Value to Your Home

1. Enhance Your Environment, Beautify Your Home: With a wall mural, not only can you bring outer beauty into your home but you can choose the environment you wish to live in by simply designing the mural yourself with the assistance of a professional by your request. Of course, you are not limited with just outdoor scenes but can incorporate any of your dreams by purely using your creativity.

2. Allow Your Creative Side to Shine through: Even if you think that you don't have a creative bone in your body, you actually do have a creative side. The difficult part is that many of us were never taught how to allow that creativity to shine through. By working with an artist on a wall mural, you may just find that you are able to add some creative touches your home in ways that you never thought possible before.

3. Learn to Love and Appreciate Your Home: It was once said that one should see a rewarding appreciation for their hard work which is particularly true when it comes to our home. Our home should be a refuge, safe from the world around us, a place of peace and contentment. By adding a wall mural to your surroundings you will develop a greater appreciation for your own personal living space. This, in itself, makes it worth the effort.

4. A Wall Mural Helps to Bring Peace to Your Life: Off all the human emotions and feelings that many of us desire, a feeling of peace, usually leads the list. Unfortunately, many of us do not have a ready supply of peace available to us in our day-to-day lives. That is something that a wall mural can give to you and the simplistic beauty of a mural can help you to have feelings of peace, regardless of what goes on outside of your home.

5. Add Balance to Your Home and Life Through Variety: All of us enjoy balance, and regardless of whether you call it Feng Shui or you are searching for symmetry in your life. A wall mural will take care of it for you. In fact, this is one unique product that can bring everything together with ease.

6. A Wall Mural Is Forever: If you paint one of your walls, more than likely you will consider painting it again at some point or another. A wall mural, on the other hand, gives you a part of your home that is constant. Many people find that to be very comforting.

7. Explore Your Abilities in Art and Creativity: If you have an interest in art, you can easily explore that interest through designing your own wall mural. It is also an excellent way for you to begin an interest in art and creativity. It isn't necessary for you to paint or even to design the mural yourself in order for you to appreciate the artistic work that went into it.

8. A Wall Mural is Unlike Anything Else in Your Home: There is a difference between a cheap copy of a mass-produced wall mural and a high-quality wall painting that is designed specifically for your enjoyment. By getting a unique mural you will have a work of art unlike any other home. Most of us enjoy having something fantastically different from the common crowd. A wall mural certainly gives you this opportunity.

9. Leave Your Own Personal Mark: Have you ever had a statement you wanted to express to all audiences? A wall mural offers this ultimate opportunity. Since the beginning of art, it has been used to express emotions and tell stories that through images affect the on-looker. This also allows you to have a reminder available of deeper feelings or meaning on a subject.

10. Add Value to Your Home: It's true that adding a wall mural to your home will add monetary value to it whenever it comes time to sell. The type of value that you really get out of adding a mural, however, has more to do with your own personal enjoyment and the perceived value that you now have of your home. One thing's for certain, it's a feature of your home that you will cherish for many years to come. - 16035

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