Basement Wallpaper

Basement Wall Murals That Fix a Dark Room

Basement wallpaper is a wall covering picked for rooms below ground. Low light. Few windows. Often a little cold. The right print turns all of that into a plus.

Giffywalls prints each mural to the exact size of your wall. We have shipped these to home theaters, gyms, dens and laundry rooms. The note we get back is nearly always the same. The room stopped feeling like a basement.

Work With the Dark, Not Against It

Most people try to make a basement bright. It rarely works. Pale walls with no daylight just look flat and gray. Lean the other way instead. Go deep and warm. A dark print plus warm lamps reads cozy, not gloomy. That one switch changes the whole room.

Match the Print to the Job

Home Theater Wallpaper

Dark is your friend here. Black, charcoal or deep blue kills the glare that bounces back at the screen. Star fields and night skies work well too.

Games Room and Den

Go loud. Neon, graffiti or a city at night. Our gaming wallpaper prints suit a screen wall and take colored light well.

Home Gym

Raw looks suit a gym. Try concrete wallpaper or bare brick. It reads like a real training space rather than a spare room.

Guest Room or Office

Here you want warmth. Soft wood tone, warm plaster or a gentle leaf print. Keep the tone above mid so the room does not close in.

Fake Windows and Depth

A basement has no view. So paint one on. A wide basement wall mural on the end wall gives the eye somewhere to go. Forest, sea, mountains. All of them pull the wall back. Keep the horizon near eye level and it reads real. Skip a scene that is bright noon blue. It will fight the lamps and look odd after dark.

Damp, Walls and Prep

This is the part to get right. Fix any damp first. Wallpaper will not hide it and will not stop it. Let new plaster dry out fully, then seal it. Below-ground walls are often rough, so a mid-tone or busy print helps. Low contrast hides small bumps. Gloss shows every flaw, so skip it down here.

Low Ceilings and Small Rooms

Height is the other issue. Tall thin motifs help. So do vertical lines. Run the print right up to the ceiling with no border. The eye then reads the wall as one piece. Painting the ceiling the same deep tone works better than you would guess. The edge stops shouting about how low it is.

Styles You Will Find Here

The range covers plenty of ground. There is industrial wallpaper for a loft feel. There is brick, wood, metal and stone. There are dark leafy scenes and moody skies. There are bold graphics for a bar corner. Pick by the job the room does, not by what looks good in a bright store photo.

Zoning One Big Room

Many basements are one long open space. The trick is to break it up without building walls. Paper one end and leave the other plain. Now you have two rooms. A gym at one end. A den at the other. The change of surface does the work that a stud wall would do, and it costs you no floor at all.

Sound and Comfort

Bare below-ground walls bounce sound around. Add a heavy print and a rug and the room settles down. Textured designs help most here, at least to the ear and the eye. Warm colors do the rest. A basement that looks warm tends to feel warm, even when the reading on the wall says otherwise.

Sizing, Finish and Fitting

Send us the width and height of the wall. We print to match, so nothing gets cut short at a corner. Peel and stick basement wallpaper lifts off clean, like the rest of our removable wallpaper range. Choose paste-the-wall for a room you plan to keep. Panels arrive numbered. Shipping is free on every order.