Wall Appliques

Children's Bedrooms

With ever-changing tastes as they grow, removable wall art is an inexpensive way to update your child’s room as they grow.

Young Children

• Presto Chango Decor features farm animals, firetrucks, stars, cars, penguins and undersea creatures.
• Wall Nutz includes Disney Princesses, space travel, horses and dinosaur wall stickers perfect for a girl or boy’s room.
• Celebrate Express offers up Hannah Montana, High School Musical, Backyardigans, Pokemon, Dora the Explorer, dogs and horse wall decorations – perfect for party decorations that can be reused in your child’s bedroom when the party’s over.
• Transformers Removable Wall Accent
• Spongebob Square Pants

Teenage Wall Art

• Target has a nice selection of wall stickers that range from small children’s characters, to more mature themes including flowers, sports teams, butterflies and shapes to create your own custom design.
• Presto Change Decor includes wall stickers for teenage bedrooms, include sports silhouettes, surfers, skull and crossbones, and patterns like leopards and circles.
• Create-a-Mural has teenage themes like butterflies, flames and tie dye.

Advantages of Wall Stickers

Wall appliqués offer up an abundance of decorating advantages, including:

• Wall stickers are removable and reusable – the stickers can be repositioned and moved to other areas to create different designs.
• They’re inexpensive – wall stickers can be purchased for as little as $20, making them a realistically priced design element.
• They suit changing tastes – especially for children’s rooms, kids tastes change all the time. With a neutral tone paint, you can swap out different wall appliqués to suit their changing needs.
• Removable wall stickers are perfect for certain living situations, like dorm rooms or apartment rentals, because they don’t cause any damage that landlords would frown upon.

Where to Buy Wall Appliques

• Wall Decor Shops -- animals, kids’ themes, characters, murals, sports themes,
• Wall Pops! -- allow you to create your own designs out of circular and rectangular shapes for more mature teenage bedrooms.
• CartoonFansClub.com -– Nascar, Nickelodeon characters, Batman, Spider-Man and more!
• Artistic Sensations – has a great selection of animals and dinosaurs.
• dVider -- offers a nice selection of wall stickers that can be used in different applications besides bedrooms, including elegant nature silhouettes and holiday stickers (minus the cheese factor).

Something Different

Some wall appliqués also feature paint-by-numbers or options to paint the design yourself.

Others provide an entire wall mural -- wall sticker murals are relatively inexpensive if you consider the cost of hiring an artist to hand paint a scene. Check out these online sources:

• Wall Decor Shops –- features murals, paint-by-number designs 3-D, puffy wall stickers, peel and stick chalkboards and white boards, and even tile-sized appliqués to put on your kitchen or bathroom tiles.
• Murals For Kids -- offers a variety of themes for murals, including beach, fantasy, under sea, dinosaurs and pirates.
• Wall Words -- allows visitors to select quotations from a number of categories (wine, kitchen, family, cowboy, pets, etc.) and select font size and color. Perfect if you are looking to include a quote like Sit Long, Talk Much, Laugh Often in your home.

Do-it-Yourself Appliques

Appliques can also be applied to walls for an elegant look. Visit this HGTV Decorating page to create your own custom made appliqué.

Additionally, Love Forever shows you how to create your own fabric appliqués that require liquid starch and a brayer tool to smooth the appliqué onto the wall.

Additional Ideas

In our research, LoveToKnow Interior Design found this unique way to use wall appliqués – as a way to spruce up a piece of old furniture. Complete instructions on how to achieve this fun look are included.