How Do You Paint Stripes On An Interior Wall?
• Determine the width of the stripes. This is probably mostly personal preference, but perhaps the scale of the room should be a factor. In this article, 10″ is chosen as a uniform stripe width. • Paint the entire wall with the base color. If you intend to paint the ceiling, paint it first. • Once the paint is dry, begin measuring from the least conspicuous corner in the room. It is unlikely that your last stripe will measure exactly 10″ (or whatever size you use), so make sure that strip ends up in the least noticeable corner of the room. If you are only striping one accent wall, measure the wall and center the stripes (the outside of each end stripe should be equidistant from its corresponding corner). • Using a level, measure and tape the stripes. For the purposes of this article, 2″ tape was used (you’ll find out why in a minute). Remember to tape the outside of the contrasting stripe. This means that if you went with 10″ stripes and 2″ tape, the exposed wall will alternate between
