1 – Pick an extremely difficult focal point not purchased directly from a store. Make sure you choose strange hues and tones of normal colors so as to make the task of matching even more difficult.
We chose to focus our decorating around a quilt I made a few years back.
2 – Select a difficult painting technique and strategy.
We chose to paint two facing walls tan, and the other two facing walls with vertical stripes.
3 – Apply base coat paint to all walls. If all walls will not be the same (thus increasing its difficulty on the scale), you must wait a week between adjacent walls in order to apply tape and achieve a crisp corner.
4 – Determine a striping pattern which suits your style. Most websites advocate one-foot stripes that alternate between two shades of the same color.
Make sure you enlist an engineer to manufacture a demo on the computer which uses three colors with varying thicknesses, once again increasing the difficulty.
5 – Proceed to measure, mark, tape, and level each stripe to exact perfection. Once again, the use of an engineer is strongly recommended for absolute precision. 
6 – Using painter’s caulk, carry on by sealing each piece of tape to the wall. Failure to successfully seal each side of each piece will result in catastrophic wiggly paint appearance.
Please remember that once a finger begins to bleed, only the weak give up! This particular step requires perseverance and stamina. It also requires a patient spouse to read page upon page and chapter upon chapter aloud (We chose Paolini’s Brisinger) to the caulker to distract his mind from the growing rawness as he removes each of his fingerprints.
7 – Begin in one corner to apply paint. All tape must be removed within 10 minutes of paint application.
WARNING: DO NOT PAINT ALL THE STRIPES OF ONE COLOR ACROSS THE WALL AND THEN RETURN TO APPLY PAINT OF THE NEXT COLOR. Such a technique will result in the paint peeling away when the tape is removed. Failure to observe the above warning will result in an additional evening of taping, caulking, and painting to correct “shark bites” in each stripe whose tape was removed too late.
8 – Proceed slowly around the room, edging carefully with the correct color around baseboards, ceiling, windows, closets, and outlets. When taping is removed, wipe away any excess paint that may have seeped under the tape, despite excessive caulking.
9 – Assemble all baby furniture, adding handmade bed linens to each feature.
10 - Voila! Thank your husband by telling him you love him, you love the room, and can’t wait for the little one to add the finishing touch!
We chose to focus our decorating around a quilt I made a few years back.2 – Select a difficult painting technique and strategy.
We chose to paint two facing walls tan, and the other two facing walls with vertical stripes.
3 – Apply base coat paint to all walls. If all walls will not be the same (thus increasing its difficulty on the scale), you must wait a week between adjacent walls in order to apply tape and achieve a crisp corner.
4 – Determine a striping pattern which suits your style. Most websites advocate one-foot stripes that alternate between two shades of the same color.
Make sure you enlist an engineer to manufacture a demo on the computer which uses three colors with varying thicknesses, once again increasing the difficulty.
5 – Proceed to measure, mark, tape, and level each stripe to exact perfection. Once again, the use of an engineer is strongly recommended for absolute precision. 6 – Using painter’s caulk, carry on by sealing each piece of tape to the wall. Failure to successfully seal each side of each piece will result in catastrophic wiggly paint appearance.
Please remember that once a finger begins to bleed, only the weak give up! This particular step requires perseverance and stamina. It also requires a patient spouse to read page upon page and chapter upon chapter aloud (We chose Paolini’s Brisinger) to the caulker to distract his mind from the growing rawness as he removes each of his fingerprints.
7 – Begin in one corner to apply paint. All tape must be removed within 10 minutes of paint application.
WARNING: DO NOT PAINT ALL THE STRIPES OF ONE COLOR ACROSS THE WALL AND THEN RETURN TO APPLY PAINT OF THE NEXT COLOR. Such a technique will result in the paint peeling away when the tape is removed. Failure to observe the above warning will result in an additional evening of taping, caulking, and painting to correct “shark bites” in each stripe whose tape was removed too late.
8 – Proceed slowly around the room, edging carefully with the correct color around baseboards, ceiling, windows, closets, and outlets. When taping is removed, wipe away any excess paint that may have seeped under the tape, despite excessive caulking.
9 – Assemble all baby furniture, adding handmade bed linens to each feature.
10 - Voila! Thank your husband by telling him you love him, you love the room, and can’t wait for the little one to add the finishing touch!
9 comments:
wow! fun paint.
Wow! I am super impressed. Seriously. You guys did a great job!
funny stuff.
Love the stripes. I think you would make Sean proud.
Oh my goodness, way too much work for us, but you guys did amazing - I love it!
It looks like you have a "do it yourselfer" like my hubby. It looks great though. Good job.
Wow - this looks like quite the project! Your description of the process made me laugh! The room looks GREAT though. Good job!
Simply adorable. Carter:) is going to love it.
I really can't believe you did all that. All I can say is wow. You'll spend many hours in there though, so I am glad you did what you wanted!
Wow so cute! Looks professional. I've been thinking about putting stripes in Grant's room....now I know who to call for help. :-)
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