Patent ID: 7897228

Claim:
An article for applying color on an architectural surface, said article comprising a sheet of dry colorant having a peripheral edge, a margin adjacent to said peripheral edge, a front sheet surface, and a rear sheet surface opposite the front sheet surface; and an adhesive on said rear sheet surface for adhering said sheet to the architectural surface; wherein at least said margin of said sheet is configured to reduce the visual perceptibility of a seam created when said article is overlapped with a juxtaposed second article in that said sheet and said adhesive have a combined thickness of less than about 3.3 mils, and at least said margin of said article has an opacity index ranging from about 0.95 to 1.0 and a specular reflectance of less than about 60 gloss units at 60°; wherein said front sheet surface includes a printed pattern having a plurality of image elements and a plurality of contrasting areas, each of said image elements spaced from an adjacent one of said image elements by a corresponding one of said contrasting areas, wherein adjacent ones of said image elements have a spatial distribution free of perceptible organization.