S t R i P e S

We are doing some serious room rearranging in preparation for this new baby boy. Philip's room is going to be the nursery, Anne's room is going to be Philip's, James' room is going to be Anne's, and Michael and James are going to share Michael's room. Whew! That's a lot of furniture to move...especially when stairs are involved.

I have started with the nursery. Here is the before...sorry it is a little dark.

It was a pale mint green and I was ready for a change.

I also wanted to do some custom painting, but I didn't want to spend the money on a custom paint job. So, I borrowed a laser level from a friend and started taping. Then I taped and taped and taped some more.




Here is my practice strip to make sure that all of the taping was really going to work. Notice the lack of light outside. I started this wall at 8:30 am and finished it at 1:00am the next morning. Mind you, I have small children that needed my help throughout the day, but still...it was a LOT of work.

The tricky thing about taping is that when you paint over the top of the tape, the paint tends to leak underneath leaving teeny tiny imperfections in the line.
In order to minimize these leaks:
1. I painted the color I wanted the stripe to be
2. I taped over said color
3. I repainted the same color over the tape
4. I then painted the new color that I wanted to butt up next to the stripe...two coats for good measure
5. I peeled the tape off to see my beautiful new stripes...make sure you do this as soon as possible or else the tape doesn't come off the wall very easily. Trust me...
6. I touched up said stripes with a foam brush because some paint still leaked under the tape...and because I am a little anal retentive that way :)



The finished product. I absolutely LOVE it!!!