Wellness
Step-by-step: DIY painting a mountain wall mural

Feeling confined by your four walls? Is βrestrictedβ your current mood? Are you missing wide open spaces?
Now, maybe we canβt manifest a vast room out of thin air; but we surely can give our walls a landscape to get lost in. If you want something panoramic and dramatic, how about mountain ranges?
Painting your own mountain wall mural is a great way to add depth and character to your room. The straightforward process guarantees lots of fun and, at the end, youβve got a majestic mural that soothes and excites the imagination.
To add to the experience, usingΒ GushΒ Care air-purifying paint means that youβll also be enjoying fresh, clean air, round the clock. AinβtΒ no mountain high enough to keep you from great air quality.
Hereβs a 101 on creating a stunning mountain mural.
LGather your tools, get your paint, channel your inner Bob Ross and give your room a calming mountain vista. Weβre using just a few mainΒ colours, but feel free to experiment with more.
Step 1:Β Set up your area
Move any furniture away from the wall. Use painterβsΒ tape on the corners and edges so you have clean lines. Ensure your wall is smooth, clean, and primed with sealer. Lay out your drop sheets and secure them with painterβs tape. Get your wall all smooth, clean, and sealed up. Donβt forget: protect your space and your edges.
Step 2: Draw your mountainΒ layers
With a pencil, draw out where your mountain peaks and ridges that are going to be. Weβll go for four layers, but again, let your imagination take charge.
Draw out your layers in pencil.
Step 3: Get your paint ready
Here, weβre usingΒ MoonlightΒ andΒ Street.Β Weβll be mixing these together in separate amounts, so each layer has a distinctly different shade,Β across the spectrum fromΒ light to dark. Depending on the number of layers youβre going for, youβll want to test out the mix in small amountsΒ first,Β to ensure youβve got a nice shade for each layer. Try to add dark colours slowly while mixing; remember, you can add, but you canβt take away.
Step 4: Start painting from top to bottom
To help plan and visualise the colours for each layer, mark them with a bit of paint in their respective shades. Then, itβs time to fill your layers. Starting from the top, paint the lightest shade up to the pencil lines youβve drawn out. Remember to be attentive whenΒ cuttingΒ along the pencil lines, so theyβre nice and sharp.
Why start from the top? Itβs easier to touch up your mountains by painting over with a darker colour; plus, youβll avoid any drip issues.
Starting from the top so drips can be painted over easily.
Layer by layer, light to dark.
For the next layer, clean your brush, then load upΒ a different shade, and carry on painting.
AsΒ you proceed down the layers, you canΒ decide whether to progress from light to dark, or to switch it upΒ (which is what weβve gone for).Β For contrast, weβve paintedΒ the bottommost layerΒ with theΒ darkest colour.
Like youβre sleeping on the top of the world.
Admire the scenery.
And just like that, youβve got an alpine horizon, right in your home space. If you arenβt up for painting an entire wall, you can try out single mountains, different shapes, different coloursβ¦ Maybe even let the kids take their pick - the possibilities and variations are vast.
Try different colours too.Β
Wherever your imagination takes you, your mountain mural will always elevate your spaces to new heightsΒ of aesthetic and character. Start picking your coloursΒ and take to the skies.