A wallpaper mural can make a big statement, as we've seen in house tours and previous posts. There are a couple of ways you can use them: either in a traditional context where the mural could mimic a European-style fresco, or in a more modern context where a blow-up of a photograph or a contemporary artist's work decorates the room. We've rounded up sources for both styles...
TRADITIONAL (FIRST ROW)
• 1 Handpainted Wallpaper Mural from DeGournay
• 2 Handpainted Wallpaper Mural from DeGournay
• 3 Serengeti Mural from Shop4Wallpaper.com
• 4 Oriental Garden from Cavalier Wallpaper
• 5 Deborah Bowness Wallpaper at the Hotel du Petit Moulin, Paris
CONTEMPORARY (SECOND ROW)
• 6 Funky Little Darlings Wallpaper Mural
• 7 Surface View Wallpaper Mural
• 8 Photo Wallpaper from Ecotapeter
• 9 Wallscapes by Bless at Spazio Rossana Orlandi
• 10 Graham and Brown Digital Mural
Jessica's Crafted Space
Ana Creates a Community at Home
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Ercol Bar Stool
True Greek Recipe: Paximadi Bread Salad with Tomatoes, Feta and Capers
True Greek Recipe: Paximadi Bread Salad with Tomatoes, Feta and Capers
8 & 10 both take my breath away... In a good way....
5 & 7 are amazing, even though I probably wouldn't be brave enough to have them in my own place... and 8 makes my head spin! it really sucks you in.
I am strangely drawn to huge murals. Although I for sure like the more traditional styles like 1-4. The photo-realistic murals are just plain cheesy to me though. But the kids' room mural is cute, for obvious reasons.
I grew up (let's call it the late 60's, early 70's) in a house ith two wall murals. The dining room one was like looking through an open window to an Italian style garden in soft greens and golds; the one in my bedroom was a black and white line drawing of a fantasy landscape with a primary color sun and rainbow. It covered one long wall like a billboard.
Love 1 & 10. The first reminds me of Jane Austen and I would love to sleep in a room with that last mural, feeling encompassed by nature (especially living in a city). But you definitely have to be willing to do the work and take these down if you sell your home; they don't have mass appeal.
The little darlings reminds me too much of a pop art exhibit from Japan - somehow slightly disturbing in an intriguing way.
I'm saddened that the books aren't real!
I think this asian origami mural would be nice in the girls room in #1
http://www.designyourwall.com/store/Asian-origami-chinoiserie-custom-mural-wallpaper-pr-1492.html
I live the sepia toned garden scene!
The book thing is hilarious, I think it would work well in a bachelor pad in a "I don't really read but at least I can laugh about it" sort of way.