There’s a Zebra In Our Closet

Posted October 31, 2011 // Decorating Ideas, Easy Update, Living Room

Kind of.

Amy (8 AM Saturday morning, still in the bed): I want to paint stripes in our bar closet today.

Chad: Okay, great.

Amy: Like white zebra stripes. Kind of. Maybe. We’ll see, but I want to just try them.

Chad: Sounds great honey.

A few hours later this:

Became this:

The lighting was brighter in the after image of course but I think the lighter-than-our-wall-color stripes in Valspar’s Honeymilk (purchased from Lowes) help out the lighting situation. Our original wall color stayed behind to serve as the darker stripes, it is the same as our living and dining rooms, Benjamin Moore’s Tapestry Beige.

The first thought I had was to free-style some abstract painter’s tape on the walls and see what I could come up with. No bueno.

You don’t need me to tell you that those aren’t really stripes. Try again.

In case you’re curious the tape with the tape going across it like an A shape, was to let me know not to paint that section. It’s a highly technical process. this stripe business.

Then I just got to painting, which someone found amusing.

Don’t worry it looks like I got might have gotten paint on the back of my Boom Boom jeans but some how they were spared. I need to remember not to paint in my “good jeans” which for me means the one pair without paint on them, that cost me $19.99 at T.J. Maxx.  That sweatshirt has lots of paint on it, as all of my sweatshirts do.

And again, the final product.

My only real tip for doing this project is to keep your paint within the tape lines, pull the tape off while it’s still wet to avoid peeling, and pull the tape down and towards your painted stripe for the best lines. You may still have to touch up a line here or there with a brush and a steady hand but overall the tape works great for a finished result.  Oh, and our new Honeymilk stripes are in an eggshell finish so they have a slight sheen compared to our flat wall color. This just made it a bit more interesting in there, which we like.

Now all that hooch and our smiling candle holder aren’t the only things that spark conversation in there.Oh, and P.S. if you want one of those smiling candle holders yourself be sure to order him today, in honor of Halloween and all. He ships f-r-e-e and is on sale in a big way. We only have two left!

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