Painting!

With the ceiling finally done we moved onto painting the walls. We wanted Bee's room to be calming, neutral but still fun. I think we choose well.

STRIPES!!!!

To get stripes we first painted the entire wall the light creme color. We did a couple coats to make sure that the wall was well covered. 

Then when it good and dry we taped the stripes onto the wall. First we attempted to use a laser level but it was tricky to get the tape to be exactly straight. It's also not so easy to hold the laser level against the wall while standing on a ladder.

What worked for us was to mark ticks on the opposite ends of the wall. Then we both held onto the end of the tape, pulled tight and pressed it up against the wall. We wanted all of our stripes to be 13 inches wide so we taped above the ticks, below ticks, above, below, etc.

We also put little pieces of tape on the stripes were we didn't want to paint.

To help prevent paint from smudging beneath the tape we painted over the tape with a paint brush. We used a roller afterwards to get the correct texture. 

We painted the beige stripes twice. Once the second coat was one we took all the tape off. Sooo pretty!!

Lastly we painted all the trim white. It looks so much sharper now. The final touch was new outlets. No more half painted sockets!! 

Now we can finally get organized. Only three weeks left so its definitely time.

Can't wait to show you the completed room.