I Love the bird cages

December 3rd, 2008

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In the mural business, we often check out what other people are doing. I found this great bird cage mural in a restaurant. The simple lines add uniformity and really fill the wide open space, and they also do well to the open rafters/faux rafters up above.

One thing to note - the decorator for this project was thinking ahead in his or her combination of the mural with the well matched chosen lighting. It’s not a trivial task to line up mural positions with other wall objects. One has to pay particular attention to HOW the installer deals with the bleed of the mural.

If 6″ of bleed was provided here in the install, but the installer just lined the left hand edge of the mural with the left hand edge of the bleed, the entire mural could be off by 6″ away from any electrical junction boxes. A critical error. It’s very important to clarify to an installer HOW to deal with provided bleed, and HOW to deal with other objects.

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How much bleed is necessary for a wallcovering mural?

November 15th, 2008

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Why do you need bleed?

A wall out of square requires BLEED to make it fit.

Besides errors in drawings and errors in measurements, the biggest reason to include enough bleed in a wallcovering or wallpaper mural is the plumb of the walls. A plumb line is a metal bobber on the end of a string. If you were to hold the end of the string in the top left corner of the target wall, and the bobber at the bottom of the target wall is 3″ in from the edge- your wall is 3″ out of plumb. This can happen on ANY edge of the wall, so we need to compensate for it. Bleed is necessary to cover these discrepancies.

What I am getting at here, is that sometimes square walls aren’t square, and rectangular walls aren’t rectangular. The bottom of a flat wall might be longer than the top, or the right taller than the left.