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In a Mario Buatta–designed playroom in Southampton, New York, artist Haleh Atabeigi painted the ceiling to look like a tent and the walls to mimic perfect hedges.

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In the second-floor salon of the Venice home of businessman Lorenzo Bucciol and his family, Studio Peregalli painted trompe l’oeil columns, balustrades, and views of a bucolic landscape behind a grand 17th-century Tuscan cabinet flanked by chairs from the same period.

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In designer Anouska Hempel’s English country house, a vanity is covered in trompe l’oeil tiles painted by Kaffe Fassett.

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In a four-story apartment at England’s Burley on the Hill, interior designer Mark Gillette created an elaborate painted ceiling in the drawing room in dusty pinks and pale blues.

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Eighteenth-century murals dazzle in the formal dining room of Villa Cetinale, the 17th-century Tuscan residence of Ned and Marina Lambton, the Earl and Countess of Durham.

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In designer Pedro Espírito Santo’s Portugal home, a room that was decorated with trompe l’oeil swagged draperies in the 18th century serves as a bath.

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In the octagonal entry hall of a Miles Redd project in the Bahamas, the compass on the floor was painted by decorative artist Chris Pearson.

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A mural by Eduardo Mendieta and Jay Bellicchi enlivens the staircase in real-estate magnate Jorge Pérez’s oceanfront pied-à-terre in Hollywood, Florida.