Celestial wallpaper murals
Star charts, constellations, moon phases and painted sky. The one theme that is as convincing on a ceiling as it is on a wall.
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About celestial wallpaper
Sky on a ceiling
A cloud or sky design is the rare mural that genuinely belongs overhead. On a ceiling it has no horizon to get wrong and nothing for furniture to cover, and it changes a room more than the same design on a wall ever could.
Measure the ceiling exactly as you would a wall — widest and longest point — and expect installation to take roughly twice as long and to want two people. Peel and stick is not the material for a ceiling; use non-woven and paste.
Charts versus skies
Antique star charts are drawings: fine linework, gold or ink on a dark ground, and full of things to read. They reward a wall you stand close to — a study, a stairwell, a hallway.
Painted skies and cloudscapes are the opposite, and behave like a landscape. Soft, low-contrast and calming, they are the safest thing to put in a bedroom or a nursery and one of the few patterns that does not make a small room feel busier.
How ordering works
Every mural is printed to the wall size you enter, so there is nothing to cut down and nothing left over. Measure the wall at its widest and tallest point, type those numbers in, and the price updates as you go. Every panel is printed with a trim allowance on each edge, free, for a clean finish at the ceiling and baseboard.
Five materials cover almost every wall: Non-Woven if the wall is smooth and the mural is staying, Textured if the wall has small flaws to hide, Premium Textile when you want the print to read like a painted canvas, Peel & Stick if you rent or change your mind often, and Canvas Peel & Stick for a canvas surface that still goes up without paste. Order a sample of any of them first — it is the cheapest way to see how a colour behaves in your own daylight.
Common questions
Yes, and a cloud or star design is the best candidate for it. Use a paste-applied material rather than peel and stick, allow two people and about twice the time, and enter the ceiling's real measurements the same way you would a wall.
Deep blue sky in a nursery is popular and it tends to be calming rather than heavy, because the pattern is soft and the contrast is low. If you are unsure, sample it and look at it after dark under the night light, which is when it matters.
Where a design is based on an antique chart it follows that chart, which was drawn from real observation. They are decorative reproductions, though, not navigational instruments, and we would not stake a passage at sea on them.
Pricing at a glance
Murals are priced by area, so the wall size you enter is the price you pay. Rates run from $4.92/ft² to $6.39/ft² depending on the material.
- Non-WovenClassic paste-the-wall · best value$4.92/ft²per square foot
- TexturedPaste-the-wall · hides imperfections$5.41/ft²per square foot
- Peel & StickSelf-adhesive · best for renters$5.90/ft²per square foot
- Premium TextileWoven fabric face · our richest finish$6.39/ft²per square foot
- Canvas Peel & StickSelf-adhesive canvas · texture without paste$6.39/ft²per square foot
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