Painting Party!!!

The painting is finished!!! Woohoo!!! And I am IN LOVE with it! Little Miss finally gets to have a little GIRL room and with STRIPES!

Let me tell you though this is not a project for a quick afternoon, spur of the moment, decide to paint some cool stripes on the wall. It took 2 LONG days, lots of paint (even ran out once, ugh!), and a few cold drinks to help it go easier :)

I started Friday morning by priming over the dozen paint sample colors on the walls, then got busy with the first coat of light Tea Rose from Valspar. First coat and trim done before 10am, so I decided to throw on the 2nd coat on the accent wall since it was recommended that the paint cure for 3 days...I'm impatient and needed a finished room for the little lady so she could stop sleeping in a playpen in Cuyler's room and gave it 24 hours.

Tea Rose..supposed to be a light coral-ly pink, a lot more baby pink than planned but still cute! FUN FACT: The hanging tissue paper garland (which is hanging as to not get paint on it) is from her 1st birthday party and has been a staple of her room since. This year we are adding the puppy statue from her puppy birthday party, Hoping to keep the tradition going with birthday themes turned decor :)

                       Yes, I actually painted her whole room and stripes with this one standing by and helping!!!                                     Still amazed that I actually got it done!!!

That afternoon after Cuy was sent to the lake, I put another coat on the walls and ran out of paint. Mr Lowe's paint helper man lied and said a gallon would be more than enough, and had to sell me the more expensive gallon so I wouldn't need to prime, lesson learned... Saturday morning headed back to Lowe's bought another gallon of paint and added the 3rd and final coat of the base color. Now to start the stripes!!!

By this time the paint had cured for about 24 hours so I got to figuring out my game plan. That was harder than I thought, Horizontal or Vertical stripes? Uniform sizes or mix it up? Round the corner and add a 2nd wall or stick with the 1 wall? It was ridiculous and after asking around on facebook for a awhile and scrounging pinterest for the best ideas I settled on this pattern.

I alternated the width of the bold colored stripes and kept the light base color stripes the same width. It was a 3, 5, 3, 5, 4, 5 pattern and then repeated across the wall.

After having my wonderful husband Chris help find the middle of the wall we leveled off and drew a line in pencil all the way up/down the wall. He then started measuring off that line 2.5in, so the middle stripe would be the base color 5 in width. He then measured off of that stripe with his combination square and dashed the line so I could come level it with out 4ft level and connect the dashes. We did this in both directions until we were fully marked with pencil lines. Then we went back with the painters tape and taped them off.

Continued in next post...