All Striped Out!

Every time people come over we hear the same question, "How in the world did you paint those stripes on your wall?" Well here here ya go...

I really thought my husband was going to kill me during it because it took him forever to measure and draw the lines. After doing some Pinterest research (you can see my inspiration here), I knew that I wanted about foot wide stripes. I left all that math up to my husband. For those that know me, math is no where near my strongest subject!

So Anthony explained to me exactly how he was able to figure out how many stripes were needed and once he explained the process it was really simple! All he did was measure the length of the wall. Once we figured out the wall was about 17 ft long, he knew that we were going to need 17 stripes! So from the end of wall he started measuring out a foot and so on.

Measuring out the stripes

I was so excited because I didn't think it was going to be that simple! Well I learned that it wasn't that simple at all. Measuring out the 17 stripes was the easy part. Now it was time to draw level vertical lines over and over again. Thank goodness my husband is one patient fella! He used a yardstick that also had a leveler in it. That helped the process a lot. I think it took him about two hours to finish drawing the lines.

Drawing the lines

Once the lines were complete it was time to tape and paint! I definitely was left with the easy part. Oh and if it looks a little dark in this picture, it was! We were actually in the middle of a hurricane and the lights went out! But do you think that stopped me?? Not one bit!! I just painted on. We eventually had to pack up and head to my parents because the power stayed off for about 3 days. But I got the project done!!

Painting!

Here is the finished project! I love love love my wall!