Gold Murals

Gold mural wallpaper is printed to the measurements of one specific wall, so the design lands where you want it instead of where a standard roll happens to run out. What arrives is a single image, divided into panels that meet edge to edge, rather than a pattern you have to line up. Gold is what makes that worth doing: it picks up whatever light is in the room, so a wall that reads soft champagne at breakfast turns much deeper once a lamp is on.

How to measure your wall for gold mural wallpaper

Measure the width at three heights and the height at both ends. Drywall is rarely square, and across a 12 ft (3.66 m) wall the two sides can easily differ by half an inch (1.3 cm). Pass on the largest figures, as the wall actually is. You do not add a cutting margin yourself: the design is scaled to the size you send and trimmed in production, so an accurate measurement matters more than a generous one. The image is then split into vertical panels that hang side by side and rebuild one continuous picture. They arrive numbered, so an installer works straight across from one side to the other. Panel width follows the design and the manufacturer, so a 9 ft (2.74 m) entryway and a 20 ft (6.10 m) stairwell are handled the same way.

Choosing a gold tone for the light your room gets

Start with the light, not the swatch. Where daylight does the work, a matte print holds one steady color from every angle. Where the light is artificial and moves with you, a metallic finish earns its place, because the sheen travels as you cross the room. The tones run from pale champagne through warm ocher to antique gold with a brown undertone. Which one you land on depends less on taste than on the surface it sits against: charcoal turns gold into hard contrast, sand keeps it quiet. To see those tones on rolls, compare the gold wallpaper and metallic wallpaper collections.

Rooms that suit a gold mural

A powder room is the easiest place to start with gold mural wallpaper. The wall you face when the door opens is short, you take it in at a glance, and one motif fills it corner to corner with no repeat break. A breakfast nook works for the opposite reason: the wall is small enough that a busy composition never crowds the table. Above a staircase you get the one wall in most houses tall enough to carry a design at full height, read from below, which suits a metallic finish. Think twice about the wall you sit facing every evening under a single bright fixture, where a high-shine gold across a large surface can be more than you want at that hour.

Related mural themes and picking a design

Gold seldom carries a design on its own. It turns up as the edging on a leaf in botanical work, as fine linework in oriental murals and as the line that structures a repeat in geometric murals. For plant-led motifs see flower murals; for a scene that runs the length of a wall, panoramic murals. Designs here include work from Daisy James, Inkiostro Bianco, Muance and Tuskara.

Order a sample before you send your wall size

Gold is hard to judge on a screen: the same print reads yellow under one bulb and bronze under the next. Order a sample, tape it to the wall it is meant for, and look again after dark. It also shows what the print is carried on; those backings sit under non-woven wallpaper. Duties and taxes are included in the price shown, shipped from the Netherlands. If you are not sure how a motif should fall, send us the room dimensions and we will go through it with you.