Finally

 

She's back and better than ever! My little baby computer had to do to the doctor… well more like the ER and get completely reimaged. Now she’s back and ready to get going.

Let’s start with my new kitchen wall design that I promised you would get to see on Wednesday.

One word. Chevron.

LOVE IT!

I was surprised how easy this actually was to do and even more surprised that I was able to accomplish it completely on my own.

The “stencil” I used is nothing more than some rectangles connected via Microsoft Word and printed out. Next up, I cut out my boomerang esque image and went to town.

You’ll notice the painters tape on the side of the “stencil” – that was just to help hold it in place while I taped the outline. At first I thought about tracing the lines and going back to tape them but that idea worked as well as Joan Rivers plastic surgeon.

Taping complete.

Have you ever heard of “sealing” your painters tape? You literally just paint over the tape lines with the base color (for me it was the white wall color). This helps your stripe color not to bleed and instead give you crisp lines.

Its an extra step, yes, but well worth it!

After the tape was sealed and the paint was dry I added my top color.

Here comes the pull out your hair moment.

I have always been told to remove tape when the latex paint is still WET. Not in this case. When I took the tape off it actually took the green paint with it!!! I tried a few different places and with no luck decided to see how it did dry.

Welp, the green paint stayed in place but the white wall paint peeled right off. Most annoying part of this whole process involved this STUPID tape.

 

After fixing the green that pulled up I went back and freehanded over the white – mainly because I didn’t want to risk taping it off and having one of my previous problems happen again.

This project is kind of like having a child (or so I think) it made me think to myself “good thing she’s cute”. Had this project been anything less than awesome I would have screamed and kicked those chevron stripes to the curb right along with that stupid painters tape (edge lock variety)

 

Now, who’s headed out this weekend to find some paint and give a wall some spice with chevron??