How I painted a horizontal striped wall

I didn't want to say "how to" paint a horizontal striped wall because, I soon found out, there are SO many different ways you can do this! I just wanted to show you a step by step procedure on what we did and what worked for us.

We had just finished priming and painting the guest bedroom and I was really anxious to try painting a horizontal striped wall. First we decided it would be an accent wall, so just one wall would have stripes.

We chose the wall that the bed will be against, kind of like the one in this picture:

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(Just to be clear, this is sadly not my house, just an example of a striped wall.)

I also knew I wanted it to be neutral, so I went with Behr Sail Cloth and Behr Casual Khaki.

Before we began taping and painting, I measured from floor to ceiling and decided on how wide I wanted the stripes to be. I found out that our ceiling wasn't exactly level, but about 94.5 inches. We went with 8 inch stripes with the bottom one being a little more narrow.

We started measuring from top to bottom 8 inches all the way down.

We used a laser level for this project and let me tell you, it was a life saver!!! I read different reviews on how to paint a horizontal striped wall, and a lot of them suggested we not use a laser level. uhhh I'm not sure how we would have finished this project without it.

Basically you just follow the laser with the tape and put it either above or below the line, depending on where you will be painting. This part is very tedious, and trying. You must have patience.

Oh, before I painted, I used a credit card to smooth out and bubbles, or creases to prevent the paint from bleeding through. 

Now for the easy part, painting! I just simply painted about the tape first, then used a roller for the middle part. Super simple and quick! The little pieces of tape are just a reminder for me not to paint in that area.

Next, I removed tape and marked errors and a little bits of touching up. 

p.s. I changed that electrical outlet and 3 others, because I'm that handy

Lastly, the finish!

I have feeling I will be spending more time in this room.

I so wish this wall was in our bedroom, but I guess that mean we just need to repaint ours.... Two rooms with stripes? Too much? nahh!

This weekend...

• On Friday I checked out bridesmaid dresses with my maid of honor, Bailey. This was one of our favorites. We're going to try some other stores too, hopefully get all my bridesmaids together next time!

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• Spent way too much money and time dealing with car maintenance. $234 and five hours later, I had my tires rotated, oil changed, engine belts replaced and a car wash. It was pretty lame and I wasn't in the best mood. Scott cheered me up with a snow cone, which made things better! 

• Planned on painting our two extra bedrooms but only finished painting one room and found out it's going to take two coats. two, ugh! The other bedroom is going to need two coats as well because they are both the same dark/ugly/purple color. Can you tell I'm bitter about it? 

• After our painting fail, we decided we were going to have fun, because two bad days in a row weren't happening. So we went rock climbing

• We went swimming at our friends house.

my pool boy ;)

• We ate drunkin chicken. Have you ever made this? You stuff a can of beer up a chickens yoo hoo and grill it up. It keeps the chicken super moist and turns out delish! I highly recommend it.

What did you do this weekend? Are you as ready for Friday as I am?!?!