Thursday, January 19, 2012

tutorial: how to paint stripes on your wall or ceiling

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i love striped walls. i love stripes in general, really. we’ve done stripes in our bathroom, the girls pink princess room, and a few other places in the past.

and when i saw the ceiling on my inspiration room with wide reddish/salmon-y and white stripes i knew i had to do it.

it can be daunting to do stripes, but we have a pretty simple system down-pat at this point.

you need two people, two tape measures, two pencils, a couple of rolls of frog tape or painters tape, and at least one ladder (if you’re doing walls, two for a ceiling. assuming one of you isn’t very, very tall. then you may not need any ladders.)

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 so there you have it. how to paint stripes, the easy (ha!) way.

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10 commenters commented...:

ana @ i made it so said...

the stripes look perfect. now, how would i go about doing this on that ugly old popcorn ceiling? bleh.

the momma (aka Shannon) said...

ewwww...popcorn ceilings :(
yeah, I got nothin. sorry.

darlene mcleod said...

I was just about to comment that this is why popcorn ceilings are so awful. If we weren't renting I'd be scraping that stuff off pronto.

Kimberly from "bugaboo" said...

I love them. I love them, I love them, I love them. I want to do stripes RIGHT NOW. I also want to paint a room these colors. Maybe I'll just copy everything you do exactly.

Stef said...

Those look great. We are thinking of doing stripes in my daughter's room. I love the ceiling idea!

the momma (aka Shannon) said...

@darlene--what the landlord don't know won't hurt him (wink, wink!)

@kimberly--that's cool. imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? and let's face it...i didn't come up with any of these ideas on my own hehehe!

the momma (aka Shannon) said...

@stef--i've got stripes in a lot of rooms, but this was the first striped ceiling i've done. and i'm seriously in LOVE with it. so i say--GO FOR IT!

The DIY Show Off said...

I love the ceiling! And no way I can tell it's not perfect...it looks perfect to me. The entire room is an inspiration. Thanks so much for sharing your hard work, Shannon - it's an awesome room!

Anonymous said...

So beautiful...stripes!!!!

the momma (aka Shannon) said...

thanks again for the feature roeshel! Y
you're too sweet!

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