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Step-by-step: DIY painting a mountain wall mural â Gush

Feeling confined by your four walls? Is ârestrictedâ your current mood? Are you missing wide open spaces?
Now, maybe we canât 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, youâve got a majestic mural that soothes and excites the imagination.
To add to the experience, using Gush Cair air-purifying paint means that youâll also be enjoying fresh, clean air, round the clock! Ainât no mountain high enough to keep you from great air quality.
Hereâs a 101 on creating a stunning mountain mural.
Letâs show you how itâs done. Gather your tools, get your paint, channel your inner Bob Ross and give your room a calming mountain vista. Weâre using just a few main colours, but feel free to experiment with more.
Step 1:Â Set up your area
Move any furniture away from the wall. Use painterâs 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 painterâs tape. Get your wall all smooth, clean, and sealed up. Donât forget: protect your space and your edges!
Step 2: Draw your mountain layers
With a pencil, draw out where your mountain peaks and ridges that are going to be. Weâll go for four layers, but again, let your imagination take charge.
Draw out your layers in pencil.
Step 3: Get your paint ready
Here, weâre using Moonlight and Street. Weâll be mixing these together in separate amounts, so each layer has a distinctly different shade, across the spectrum from light to dark. Depending on the number of layers youâre going for, youâll want to test out the mix in small amounts first, to ensure youâve got a nice shade for each layer. Try to add dark colours slowly while mixing; remember, you can add, but you canât 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, itâs time to fill your layers. Starting from the top, paint the lightest shade up to the pencil lines youâve drawn out. Remember to be attentive when cutting along the pencil lines, so theyâre nice and sharp.
Why start from the top? Itâs easier to touch up your mountains by painting over with a darker colour; plus, youâll 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 up a different shade, and carry on painting.
As you proceed down the layers, you can decide whether to progress from light to dark, or to switch it up (which is what weâve gone for). For contrast, weâve painted the bottommost layer with the darkest colour.
Like youâre sleeping on the top of the world!
Admire the scenery.
And just like that, youâve got an alpine horizon, right in your home space. If you arenât up for painting an entire wall, you can try out single mountains, different shapes, different colours⊠Maybe even let the kids take their pick! The possibilities and variations are vast.
Try different colours!
Wherever your imagination takes you, your mountain mural will always elevate your spaces to new heights of aesthetic and character. Start picking your colors and take to the skies!