Wall Mural - Opinions Please

[RandomUser987654321]

Doing up our spare room/office into a nursery, found a wall mural from Dunelm that comes as wallpaper. Instead of doing it outselves we said let’s get somebody in to do it.

Got a recommendation for a local decorator & they’ve put it up. I was working downstairs, they came down & I paid them & they left. £80 for one wall

At lunch I went up & could see all the lines between each sheet. Looks ok from a far but noticeable when your in the room

i don’t really want to complain but AIBU to be unhappy with the job? or do you think it’s the paper itself, I was thinking maybe the corners were bashed in delivery revealing the white edges

Partner thanks I should just leave it & we won’t see it once we put wardrobes & bed in . I’m thinking of pulling it down & replacing rather than complain. Just feels annoying as I could have DIYed for a simailsr finish but paid somebody to do it so it’d be perfect

WWYD?

It’s fine, that’s just how wallpaper looks. You will never be able to have no line and completely invisible like paint…

We put a similar mural up a few years ago and had similar results. I think it's paper.

It's delightful and wonderful for a nursery. Timeless too.

Looks really nice

Tbh I’d be pretty disappointed myself with that. I’m a reasonable wallpaper hanger myself, not at all top end or as good as a proper pro, but getting paper on the wall with a good seam/join is really not that hard.

Im not sure it’s worth complaining though- I’d probably just live with it, if they’ve done a sub standard job (imo this is) then I wouldn’t want any more to do with them.

Just my2p.

Looking at it, it appears to be lined up perfectly which for me is the most important thing with wallpaper, and difficult if your walls aren’t exactly straight. I think it’s really nice - I’d just leave it.

I think that's a shit job. There shouldn't be visible white gaps.

You can hide it by using coloured pencils to colour the white gap though - I've seen this done on those home improvement programmes.

that’s just how wallpaper looks.

It really isn't.

One for pedants' corner really, but "wall mural" is tautology.

Murals, by definition, are on walls.

And the joins look fine to me, and will become less noticeable over time,

It looks good to me! We have a mural in the nursery too, it’s a lovely way to use the wall space.

We had very expensive wallpaper installed last week by the decorator who was highly recommended (who has a large social media following) and he left tiny lines between each sheet too - it’s just how they do it, as it can’t overlap. It’s the spacing that is important. Our decorator used lasers to ensure accuracy, it was interesting watching!

TLDR: It looks good, I wouldn’t replace it.

Looks fine to me, also really like it-it's lovely.

The zebras leg is over two panels of wallpaper. It looks perfect.

So the wallpaper is ok.

Yes it's gone ever so slightly squint by one millimetre on the animal above but nothing that a wee rub down with appropriately coloured eyeshadow over the white bit won't fix.

I'd do that over all the white bits (only) you don't like. Just put eyeshadow over any white that shouldn't be there. You could use a cotton bud rather than your face applicators.

Don't rip it down. That's just silly and wasteful when there is the easy fix I'm suggesting.

I actually cant see if it'd good or not. but we have used a Dunelm mural and was very impressed buy the quality and how easy it was to put up (not so impressed we had to buy TWO murals to cover 3.35m when they now do different sizes)

My sister hung a dunelm mural herself and it’s a better job than that. Sorry OP but I agree, it would drive me potty and I’d have to take it down. £80 is fairly cheap I’d say, my decorator charges £130-£180 depending on what he’s doing but you’d need a magnifying glass to spot a join and a room generally take him a day and a half.

£130-£180 per room or per wall?

@RandomUser987654321 when you run your finger over the seam/join, can you feel anything at all? Really it should be completely smooth and feel like a single piece. From the 3rd pic (zebra one) it looks like there’s a clear “ridge” where the paper has been joined too tightly and is bumping up. That, for me, would be a bad job.

It’s hard to tell unless you take a really close up pic in good light.

£80 is very cheap. Decorators usually charge about £300 a day and up, depending on where you live. How long did it take?

That really isn't "just how wallpaper looks".

North Manchester. Took about 1.5- 2 hours was just one wall (7 sheets)

If I go with my nail, some are seenless, some have a small gap very tiny though. Papers fully flat

I paid a lot for Farrow & Ball dark olive wallpaper, when it came the instructions said, due to the manufacturing process white edges would be visible and suggested using a colouring crayon to blend in !

Because I had spent a lot on the non-returnable paper I used it . At first it bothered me but I have got used to it.

Nah...needs to be a "muriel"

I wouldn't be happy with that. I can hang wallpaper better than that and I'm not a professional.