MURALS ARE ALSO A GREAT
ALTERNATIVE TO WALLPAPER ON WALLS
THAT HAVE SOME "WONK" IN THEM.
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"I had one property manager tell me that it was
such a hassle to get the colours to match for a
vinyl graphic border, and then six months later
someone ripped something off the wall and now
he has to replace the whole thing," she says.
"With paint, I can easily match colours on any
project and come in and quickly touch up just the
damaged area."
Lancaster says murals are also a great alternative
to wallpaper on walls that have some "wonk" in
them.
"I had a client wallpaper an entire bathroom with
angular walls in a kind of greenery, and while I was
there painting in another room she asked me to
come and take a look — and it looked good, but
there were sections of the wall where you could
definitely tell it was wallpaper because it couldn't
perfectly line up," she says.
"I could have just painted it to fit the space."
Prepping a wall for an indoor mural is just like any
other paint job.
"If you're in an older home, I'll typically wash and
prime. If it's a brand-new home I won't need to do
that," she says.
For outdoor murals, which she can paint on sheds,
garages, pool houses, fences and more, she uses
exterior paint and encourages clients to topcoat
annually, which adds years of life to the mural.
MURAL, MURAL,
ON THE WALL
— Cont'd from page 96
Wherever she puts her brush to work, Lancaster loves the
challenges her clients come up with.
"Don't be afraid to ask. If you come up with something crazy,
I'm going to help you make it happen," she says.
"That's the best part of this job — I never know what the
client is going to say and I am constantly being surprised with
such good ideas."
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