The 2008 StartupNation Home-Based 100 Competition

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Wall Dressed Up

Wall Dressed Up
Voting is now closed. The results of the Home-Based 100 will be announced in mid-November.

Contestant's Case to Win

This is based on the number of votes received and does not reflect the quality of the business.
Wall Dressed Up is a company that designs and sells mural transfers that you simply rub onto your wall!

We started Wall Dressed Up last fall after several years of research to find just the right mural transfer product for our business. We are two artists/moms coming back into the business world with a mural product that easily rubs onto your wall, almost like a tattoo!

These transfer murals simply becomes part of your wall, just like a thin coat of paint. This is not a sticker! Every original brush stroke and shadow is reproduced in high resolution detail and shadows make the artwork pop! All you need to do is rub it on the wall! You can now beautifully decorate flat or textured walls, floors, ceilings, furniture, mirrors and more without even a single drop of paint! All this for a fraction of the cost of a custom mural. We really wanted to make murals affordable and easy for anyone to have in their home.

We are thrilled to be starting this business and taking advantage of new technology to promote and sell our affordable murals. We feel this is a great and inexpensive way to add mural artwork to as many walls as possible. We have our website, blog and are also selling our murals on Amazon. We have a few boutique stores who carry our murals and are busy building the business.

We would like to be considered for the StartupNation Home-Based 100 Competition as we have gone from just a kernel of an idea, to the start of a thriving online business. We opened less than a year ago, in October of 2007. We are 2 artist/moms, living in different states, who searched for 2 years for this thin-as-paint transfer printing. The printing technology itself is amazing. We just kept putting one foot in front of the other each day as we brought this idea to form.

It was a childhood memory of a rub down transfer coloring book that sparked our first thought of combining printed transfers with our mural art.

We learned how to build a website ourselves, get our product manufactured, and came up with the start up funds to open and market our product. We have learned to wear many hats! We used many of the resources and ideas here on the StartupNation website (it's a great source of ideas and information) as we progressed along the many steps of starting a business.

Thanks for considering Wall Dressed Up for the Home-Based 100 Competition! We appreciate your vote!

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