ROFL! Velvet, oh my! I don't think anyone around here has thought to say that yet. lol. I'm sure it's coming though. Southern_magnolia, I loved it! The whole idea of a fancy chicken house with chandelier is marvelous! I don't think its "over the top". I think its great, creative genius! You're giving me some ideas here... I don't paint for a living, unfortunately. I wish I could. I have a full time "day job" in an office. I was on vacation this week. I do make a bit selling paintings and pet portraits, but not nearly enough to live on. Here is a link that might be useful: My art site

cyn427, that white plug in the mural is our central vac outlet, and paint would not easily stick to it, not to mention that with use, I think it would all chip off. The grille, I agree probably needs some attention. I am thinking of getting a solid wood one that I can stain to match the floor trim. Then it would blend better with the trim and floor and not be so jarring. But then it begs doing all the other rooms so I'm not sure I'm up to doing six of them! paintergirl, which theme are you referring to? The hallway or the underwater mural in the bathroom? Thanks for the props...I really did a lot of research on shadowing, shading, ironwork colors and how to draw out and shade those columns. Only the top and bottom were bridgeless stencils. I did have someone point out that the flame of the candle doesn't cast a shadow quite like that but I liked it so I kept it. And, after I did the shadows for the pot, it looked like it was hovering so I had to fix that! I could use some decorating suggestions here from everyone for what to do in this hallway..I was thinking of doing a stone wall effect and then inserting a niche with hopefully a lion's head. I saw that in a home show tour and really liked it. I also have some garden flowers that I am considering placing behind a bench that sits across from our coat closet (past the white closet door on the left and around the corner). However, I don't want it to look too country or casual. My house is decorated in a mix of Oriental/Asian/Indian/Out of Africa type theme. My master bedroom where I was basically standing to take that picture is definitely Tuscan. So I guess my theme is "Around the Globe!". The half bath (first door past the wrought iron on the wall on right) is going to be redone to a more contemporary feeling with a new clean line vanity, granite and hopefully a Toto vessel sink. I am considering painting the walls to match my red kitchen in the matte/gloss stripe pattern that I like so well. There will be a Solatube installed there too and so there will be no issue with it feeling cramped. So the treatment needs to transition from a Tuscan bedroom to a contemporary/somewhat Asian bathroom. Plus it needs to keep in mind the other hallway mural since they both can be seen at the same time if you stand in the main hall and look to the right and left. Any help you guys can give me would be awesome.

SUPER high quality (which also means $$$$$) are Zuber, Gracie, and de Gournay. They are usually handpainted or hand-blocked, are always hung using liner paper (so they can be removed and used in another place), and look best in very grand houses. They are usually used in halls, up grand staircases, in dining rooms, and occasionally in a very large and grand bedroom. Farrow & Ball makes some papers that are not murals but large scale paper. While expensive, they are not something that one must win the lottery to even consider. Here are some examples of how it is used. https://www.curbed.com/2016/9/1/12748496/old-house-wallpaper-history-zuber-china https://www.graciestudio.com https://degournay.com/wallpapers For those of you who saw the movie "FIfty Shades of Gray", you might have noticed the fabulous wallpaper behind the bed. According to the NYTImes review of the movie, the de Gournay wallpaper was the best part of the movie. I have not seen the movie but I'm sure I would have spotted the de Gournay wallpaper! I love Farrow & Ball papers and have used them in multiple rooms in my house (I still love wallpaper, even though it is out of fashion). http://us.farrow-ball.com/patterns/wallpaper/fcp-category/sub

Hi Eve- I love, love your room! It has such vintage character with the ceiling tiles and the picture rail and that lovely sage green color. I would leave them all. I am wondering if you have enough light in there to read and write in the evening, if the size of the chandelier is large enough for the size of the room. Guidelines are that the diameter should be in inches the sum of the length plus width in feet of the room dimensions. For example, if the room is 10' x 15', the chandelier should be 25" in diameter. The chandelier's height would be the arithmetic product of your ceiling height x 2.5 - 3. An eight foot ceiling height would have a chandelier height of 20-24." If the room is less than 10 feet high, the chandelier should be less than 27' tall. The chandelier should be hung a good 6.5 feet from the floor. If you have rather tall people in your family or 10 feet ceilings, hang it at 7 feet from the floor.Depending on the size of the room, it might need 200-400 watts. Especially if you'd rather not have to have a lot of of supplementary task lighting. I am wondering how much light that rattan-type pendant would afford you. I think the room will feel more spacious if there is more of an organizational system for your books and papers. That will leaving more visual space between your possessions and giving an overall more restful feel to the room and ultimately to you, which will leave more space and energy for inspiration. You haven't shown us the entire room and what else is in the room. Depending on the space in the rest of the room, you may be able to move your reading chair so it is not squished into the corner in the path of the doorway. You might want to move your desk. Is your desk large enough? Do you have or need a return for a printer, the hard drive, the scanner, etc? Where do you keep your office supplies? Do you have a filing system for bills, manuscripts, other projects? Do you use all those books and do you plan to keep them or do you think you could purge some? If you need to keep them, what about a book shelf system with adjustable height shelves? Rather than painting an entire wall with chalkboard paint, which will leave you with a wall full of disorganized notes similar to notes stuck to magnets on a refrigerator, here's an idea. You can easily mount a piece a pegboard to the wall over the desk. Then you can get several clipboards and paint them different colors (or get different color contact paper at the dollar store) and hang them from the pegboard. Or, you can just use a bulldog clip instead of a clipboard for a smaller piece of paper. Using diffeent type of suspensory hardware you can hang all sorts of things, or you can use cans. There are so many ideas on the web. You can get a dry erase board with marker for a dollar at the dollar store. You might be able to use a 3' x 5' rug as a wall hanging, and a larger rug as a floor covering, as long as it doesn't interfere with your desk chair. Please tack it down in some way so you don't trip on it. There is rug layering, look here, https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/how-to-decorate-with-layered-rugs-and-carpets/all I love your plants in the room. The picture rail makes it easy for you to hang plants, doesn't it? Why not see if you can get cuttings from easy to propagate and grow hanging indoor plants like swedish ivy, or trailing, mounding coleus.