How can a wall mural add value to your home?

Interior murals of faux and accent color treatments add value to a home, much like new flooring. How can a wall mural add value to your home? By adding WOW.

Kathy LaFollett

1/17/20242 min read

Watercolor of pink larkspur and green background digital and paint.
Watercolor of pink larkspur and green background digital and paint.
  • Faux Treatments

  • Accent walls

  • Scenes

  • Provenance

Faux treatments, accent colors, small scenes, and elementals can add value to a home, much like new flooring and a fresh color of paint. The value comes from the execution, not the complexity or size. Consider interior wall treatments as heat in a good hot sauce. The right amount of heat makes a memory, and a desire to have that again.

Mural art for added value, both emotional and financial.

Vacation homes offer an enticing edge to the idea of interior art. Whether rental market property, or second home. There's joy in creating a smashing visual moment in that home. Vacationers are looking for surprises in their stay. If you own property for the vacation market, every interior surprise counts. They'll remember your property. They'll want to experience it again.

Faux treatments add texture, warmth, and definition. Tuscany is called up through the application of dyed plaster applied for that Old Italy stucco look and feel. This treatment used five colors in the yellow, orange and rust spectrum. Each mixed in its own plaster. Applied layer like in pace and place with dry brush and trowel. A final dry brushing to bring out the stucco's texture. Unsealed to allow aging to occur in the color and plaster. Authenticity requires an authentic aging process.

Accent areas create a visual flow through a home. Even the direction of the piece itself can direct the use of a room.

They can also create an artistic frame for hanging art and sculptures.

Scenes can envelope a moment in space. Painting the mangrove tree canopy into the ceiling and around the entryway to the kitchen and half bath creates a break in an open floor plan. A mental moment for the eyes to slow down, progressing through a fast-flowing layout.

When we first moved into our St. Petersburg home, the seller had a complete binder filled with receipts and transferable warranties waiting for us on the kitchen counter. Having contact information like this has been a powerful help caring for our home these last 14 years. That's where LaFollett Mural Provenance distilled. The difference between pictures on the wall and a LaFollett Mural is provenance. You'll receive a signed Certificate of Provenance that carries with the art. If the buyer of your home should need repairs of that mural or changes, they can contact me directly in confidence. I have the color chips and design documents for their new to them mural.

Faux Tuscany stucco wall mural treatment in a kitchen and dining room open concept.
Faux Tuscany stucco wall mural treatment in a kitchen and dining room open concept.
Small bathroom wall accent painting of tall bending dune grasses using cream colors, blues, and greens.
Small bathroom wall accent painting of tall bending dune grasses using cream colors, blues, and greens.
Accent wall mural of 8 by 3 feet in size of a sea kelp forest. Painted in colors to accent a favored hanging watercolor.
Accent wall mural of 8 by 3 feet in size of a sea kelp forest. Painted in colors to accent a favored hanging watercolor.
Ceiling and wall mural of a mangrove tree around a hallway entrance.
Ceiling and wall mural of a mangrove tree around a hallway entrance.