Wallpaper - Badwater Basin

Our Badwater Basin wall mural brings the vast, quiet expanse of the desert landscape into the home. Photographed by Tono Balaguer, the composition opens across pale, textured salt flats with their distinctive cracked surface, leading toward rugged mountain ranges under a clear blue sky dotted with soft white clouds. We particularly appreciate how the low horizon line creates an immediate sense of scale and visual depth, balancing earthy ground tones with cool atmospheric light. Printed as a made-to-measure, PVC-free wallpaper with a subtle paper texture, it provides a calm and expansive focal point for contemporary interiors.

In the room

In a living room or vacation home, this landscape works especially well on a wide, uninterrupted wall where the full horizontal vista can unfold without heavy visual breaks. We like seeing it placed behind a low-profile sofa or along an open dining wall, as keeping tall furniture away from the centre allows the distant mountain ridge and sky to remain visible from across the room. The contrast between the sun-warmed earth tones below and the open blue above also helps give rooms with moderate natural light a balanced, airy feel throughout the day.

Styling it

Because the photographic landscape carries a strong sense of texture and open space, we suggest pairing it with clean-lined, understated furniture that lets the wall mural hold the main visual weight.

Low-slung seating in neutral upholstery, matte ceramic accents, and grounded elements in unpolished stone or weathered wood complement the natural wabi-sabi character of the salt flats. Keeping window treatments simple and fabrics relatively unpatterned allows the fine detail in the cracked ground and mountain ridges to stand out naturally.

Colour combinations

The palette within our design balances pale desert tones, sun-bleached earth, and warm neutrals in the foreground with slate-toned mountain ridges and a clear sky blue above. Around the room, we recommend working with warm off-white or soft sandy tones on adjacent painted walls to echo the dry mineral flats without competing with the sky. For accents and trim, deeper slate greys or muted terracotta bring out the natural rock tones in the distant landscape.

About our wallpaper

At Wallism, our wallpapers are made-to-measure based on your exact wall dimensions, which helps reduce unnecessary excess wallpaper during decorating. Every design is printed on PVC-free paper with a subtle physical surface structure. Our wall murals and mural wallpapers are designed to be straightforward to hang, offering practical options tailored to different living spaces and individual decorating projects.