How To Paint Stripes: the easiest tutorial ever!

I late updated our 1970's guest bathroom by paradigm the cabinetry, replacing the builder degree mirror, paradigm the walls, together with adding a striped accent wall.

I started out amongst a bath that looked similar this.

And afterwards merely a few days together with less than $200, I ended upward amongst a infinite that I love. It merely feels together with then much ameliorate now.

Since the reveal, many of you lot cause got asked how to pigment stripes.
So, today we'll breeze through a quick tutorial.

You merely demand a few supplies.

Here's what I used:

1. Paint
2. Paintbrush (I run a Wooster Shortcut Paintbrush and swear past times it. It saves together with then much time.)
4. Tape measure
5. Painter's Tape (This one is non bad for getting a crisp line.)  
6. Level

*Above links are affiliate links.

Here are the pigment colors I used inward our invitee bath.

 I used the Ocean Pearl (flat finish) equally my primary color together with the Sea Salt (flat finish) equally my accent stripe color. 

And a closeup:

To read how I made that aeroplane fine art for free, go here.

Now let's larn started.
The commencement matter you lot demand to practice is create upward one's hear how large to brand your stripes. I measured the superlative of my wall, together with divided the superlative past times the position out of stripes I wanted. For my wall, this determined that I should brand each stripe eleven inches wide. (Doing this insures that you lot don't goal upward amongst a one-half stripe upward at the locomote past times or bottom of your wall.)

Once you lot know the width of each stripe, run your record measure, level, together with painter's tape, together with start taping off the wall where the stripes should be.

Make certain to press firmly on the edges of the tape. Run your finger along the edge, or run something similar a credit card. This volition foreclose your pigment from haemorrhage underneath the tape. As long equally you've pressed downward the tape, you lot should larn a overnice fix clean line.

 Then pigment every other stripe amongst the accent color you've chosen.

As you lot tin reach the axe meet inward the inward a higher house photo, when I was done paradigm a stripe, I took the record down. You'll desire to cause got the record downward spell the pigment is all the same moisture to avoid damaging the paint.

When it's done, you lot should cause got something similar this:

And that's all for today, ya'll.
Thanks together with then much for beingness here!

I'll live on dorsum presently to part the makeovers of the office, kitchen, together with the original bath.

Follow my spider web log with

Follow my spider web log on or
or

Subscribe to amongst email!
Enter your e-mail address:

-->