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.)
so there you have it. how to paint stripes, the easy (ha!) way.
the stripes look perfect. now, how would i go about doing this on that ugly old popcorn ceiling? bleh.
ReplyDeleteewwww...popcorn ceilings :(
Deleteyeah, I got nothin. sorry.
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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteThose look great. We are thinking of doing stripes in my daughter's room. I love the ceiling idea!
ReplyDelete@darlene--what the landlord don't know won't hurt him (wink, wink!)
ReplyDelete@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!
@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!
ReplyDeleteI 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!
ReplyDeletethanks again for the feature roeshel! Y
Deleteyou're too sweet!
So beautiful...stripes!!!!
ReplyDeleteSo glad I found this post.... I am doing stripes in my kitchen and was dreading how long it will take me to mark off all the lines with a ruler and tape measure.... blah! Now I will just be enlisting my husband once the kids are all in bed! Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteYour ceiling is gorgeous - how fun it that??? I have this linked to my stripes project post too today, for inspiration!
ReplyDeleteLovely work ty for sharing your tips
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