Another option for Italy wall murals, one that offers more flexibility of size, is Murals Your Way.  Click on the link or banner to go to their on-line shop linked to this site, featuring their 150+ Italy murals.  I've a Gallery of some of their mural images below.

Seven Panel Full-Wall Mural with Tuscan View

8 Panel Full-Wall Mural of Italian Garden

8 Panel Full-Wall Mural of Italian Columns

8 Panel Full-Wall Mural of Italian Terrace and Garden

8 Panel Full-Wall Mural of Italian Terrace with View

8 Panel Full-Wall Mural of Italian Terrace and Garden

I've hung the above three full-wall murals (purchased from USA Wallpaper), so I can offer some practical advice. 

• Only hang them with the assistance of someone you know very well, and preferable with someone with whom you've overcome severe traumas.  Because after hanging these murals with a near-stranger, you will never speak to each other again.  It's very difficult. 
• Trust that the bubbles really will disappear as the mural dries
• Trust that it will be truly beautiful and unique when finished.

Partial-Wall Wallpaper Murals

To use partial wall wallpaper murals, you usually paint or wallpaper a wall the same color or a similar color as the border color on a wallpaper mural.  Or you paint the lower part of the wall so it appears to be a bay window wall.

Examples of partial wall murals are:

• niche illusion, or 
• window illusion, or
• door to the outside illusion.  

Then you hang the wallpaper image on the wall in the position you want it.  It blends into the painted wall, creating the desired illusion.

Here are some examples,  left and right.  These types of window murals are especially nice as they can act to open up closed up rooms and hallways.

Tuscan View Through a Stone Window

Vineyard View Through a Stone Window

Tuscan Window

Window with a View of Venice  (Update Note: new link, to 'Window Murals' page.)

Open-Shuttered Window  (Update Note: new link, to 'Window Murals' page.)

These are window/door partial-wall wallpaper murals.  They too can open up closed areas of your house.

Door to the Lake, a Window on Venice

I can't find these in the original seller's catalog, so I've changed the link to another seller's 'Imaginative Accents' page and 'Window Murals' page. Have Fun!

Window on a Fountain

View through a Villa Window

You can also use murals to disguise doors.  Remember to blend the coloring in with the surrounding wall, just like when hanging other partial wall murals.

Lelands also offers wallpaper cutouts like these topiaries to flank a doorway and a swag for over the doorway.

Stair Murals

To be honest, stairs are usually decorated with niche or window partial-wall wallpaper murals, so this is a continuation of the previous section.

Window wallpaper murals make it look like you get peeks at Italian views through stone windows as you climb the stairs.  This avoids the problem of the stair slope completely.

Here they've solved the problem of the stair slope by adding a dado-rail to flatten it out, and then applied the mural without having to cut it to fit.

Self-Sticking Accents

These wallpaper cutouts are self-sticking, vinyl coated, and generally come in packs of 25.  They stick to walls, wood, painted surfaces... 

Here are some available via Amazon.com, usually at a price discount.

Architectural Elements

Wallpaper cutouts of columns allow you to create columns of any height.  You can flank doorways, for example, and trim the central piece (or pieces if the wall is very tall) to the correct height for the column with top and bottom to reach from floor to ceiling.

I had links here to the column tops and bottoms available from Lelands Discount Wallpaper via Amazon.com, but they seem to no longer offer them (?!) and only offer the column itself.

So here is a link to Lelands's site where you can find other columns and all sorts of accent murals and stencils.

There are also murals and boarder rolls of pedestals, engravings and architectural elements. 

Border Accent Rolls

There are also wallpaper mural border/accent rolls available.  All are roughly 9 inches high, 25 feet long, and priced between 11-18$.

Roll with a beam with a grape/fruit vine on it (my favorite), you can create the illusion of ceiling beams.

Topiary border roll, and a Grape border roll

Tile Murals and Back-splashes

Tile murals can be applied to walls throughout the home:

• in kitchens as back-splashes around counters,
• in bathrooms as shower and bath walls
• in entranceways,
• in any room where you'd like to add a colorful, unique feature.

Many of the examples I show here come from artist Linda Paul, produced in her Colorado studio.   Ms. Paul's beautiful original artwork (also for sale, and prints) is used for many of the tile designs.  I show a wide selection of her designs in the left column.

Linda has over 30+ images of kitchen backsplashes installed by her happy customers for you to enjoy and be inspired by.

Some classical bathroom helpers

The above tile mural and others are available from 407 Creations, Inc., on Facebook, and at My Backsplash.  Check out their wide selection from an extensive list of artist.  They are the grand-daddy of on-line tile back-splash and mural shops, with years of experience.

Watery Venice in a water-closet (someone has a sense of humor)

Venetian view (on glass)

A village scene under the cap, which looks like the roof of the home depicted

A Pepper Pail spilling out

A Tuscany Window behind your stovetop

These tile murals (and more) are made from the artwork of Italian artist, transplanted to the U.S., Angelica Di Chiara.  Visit her website or see her art at this established on-line tile company for more information.  (The tile company has lots of inspiring images of tile murals installed in satisfied customer's homes.)

Here are some special new items for if you:

• can't afford real tile-murals (they are EXPENSIVE),
• or don't want to fuss with tiling,
• or live in rented accommodation.

You can use a new product called Idea Stix Murals.  These are adhesives that stick to tiles to form the mural.  They are resistant to heat, steam and water, according to the manufacturer.  You can also remove them completely, with a solvent, I'm guessing.

• Murals are sized for standard 4-1/4” tiles.
• The 12 pieces cover 12 tiles of 4-1/4”.

Here's the link to the selection available from Leland's Discount Wallpaper.  And this is the link to the selection at USA Wallpaper.  They also have light-switch covers and other stickers.

Here are a few of the ones they offer (left and right columns).

Stencils

Stencils can be used to paint decorative elements onto the walls of a room.  They're ideal for:

• adding whimsical elements to a room design
• adding decoration without taking up space
• adding architectural elements through illusion
• adding patterns without hanging wallpaper.

Stencils are a bit fussy to work with.  You spray a temporary adhesive to the back of the stencil, then apply the stencil to the wall.  Then you use a brush, or roller, or rag to apply the paint. 

The key is to use as little paint as possible to fill the stencil holes.  If you apply too much paint, it seeps under the stencil, or runs down the wall, ruining the stencil image. 

Two points in favor of stencils:

• You can always paint out your mistakes and try again. 
• And unlike wallpaper, you can reuse the stencil as many times as you'd like.

There's is a new product that makes the stencil effect simpler to achieve.  It's called Instant Stencil and is a rub-on transfer that can go onto all sorts of surfaces. 

You can read more about it at the Leland's Discount Wallpaper site, and see what they have on offer.  Or you can visit the USA Wallpaper site for their selection and instructions on how to apply them.

I've put several Italian-related stencil designs in the left column, and below.  They link through to suppliers who ship worldwide.  Here are some stencils and advice about stenciling available from Amazon.com.