Articles

In-depth guides and practical articles on designer murals.

• Where restaurants put murals, and why The focal wall, the entry, the banquette run, and the photo wall: the design logic behind where a restaurant mural goes.
• The grease problem: why a restaurant mural needs a coating Airborne kitchen grease, daily cleaning, and why food-service murals are printed on scrubbable coated substrates rather than plain paper.
• Fire code and the dining room: what a mural has to pass ASTM E84 Class A, NFPA 101 interior-finish rules, and assembly occupancy: the fire-safety facts that govern a restaurant mural.
• Fitting a panoramic mural to a wall you cannot casually reprint Measuring, panel layout, seams, and made-to-order lead time: how a scenic or panoramic mural is fit to a specific restaurant wall.
• Can a mural help a loud dining room? Hard surfaces, reverberation, and printed acoustic panels: where wall art helps a noisy restaurant and where it does not.
• Lighting a mural for evening service Warm dimmed light, color rendering, and grazing versus wall-wash: how to light a restaurant mural so it reads at dinner.