"A dream room - that's what I'm going for," Roy, 34, a Wayne homemaker, said at 9 a.m. Three hours later, the makeover is done. No messy paints - and when the Roys move one day, they can take every bit of the wall art along with them.
Just peel and restick.
The colorful pictures on the Roy children's walls are stickers - but not the tacky vinyl decals that either curl at the edges or require a blowtorch to remove. These high-quality reproductions of paintings created by fine artists who work in watercolors, acrylics, oil, or digital paint are produced on fabriclike material that shows brushstrokes and adheres firmly to walls but peels off like Post-it Notes.
Called Muralistick (a play on realistic), the three-year-old business is the brainchild of Heather Clayton, 41, of Devon, an artist and mother who got the germ of the idea as she was expecting her first baby.
"I was painting a mural in the nursery, and I was upset," she recalled of that day in 2004. The process was messy and taking longer than a very pregnant woman could stand.
Clayton, who graduated from the University of Delaware, where she studied fine art, computer-aided design, and business, worked in Calvin Klein's design studio before marriage and children. She had a specific look in mind and searched out alternatives - but all the stickers looked like, well, stickers.
"I can't stand stickers," she said. Clayton wanted an instant fine-art mural but couldn't find that. In the end, she painstakingly completed the Valley Forge scene in the baby's room.
