Before & After: The Mural That Will Change Your Mind About Murals

Carrie McBride
Carrie McBride
Carrie is a former Apartment Therapy editor and the original editor of Apartment Therapy Media's first site for kids: Ohdeedoh. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two kids..
updated Mar 11, 2020
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Empty room with red walls, two large windows, and wooden floor, labeled "Before."
(Image credit: PPetra)

This ruddy red (marsala?) room color is quite nice, but perhaps not entirely suited to its 2-year-old occupant, Vera. Her mother, Petra Probstner, took a big risk and painted murals on all four walls mimicking the urban landscape of Chicago that lay outside the windows. The result is, frankly, breathtaking.

(Image credit: PPetra)

Amazing, right?? As you can see in the progress photo below, she taped the mural off and then filled it in with grey, mint green and peachy-pink paint.

(Image credit: PPetra)

Thanks for sharing, Petra Probstner!

Readers, if you’d like to see more of this room, head to → Vera’s Spectacular City Views.

Re-edited from a post originally published 6.19.15-NT