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Diana1215
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Any advice for painting stripes?
We are going to be painting one wall of stripes in the baby's nursery.
Any tips at all that might be helpful?
Thanks!
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Posted 7/29/09 7:46 AM  |
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Stefanie
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Re: Any advice for painting stripes?
Don't leave the tape on too long. We painted stripes in Nikolas' room.
To do shadow stripes (if you're interested):
Paint the area the color you want in eggshell, then measure and tape off the area the following day.
Next paint the stripes the exact same color in a high gloss.
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| Posted 7/29/09 8:24 AM |
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Diana1215
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Re: Any advice for painting stripes?
Posted by Stefanie
Don't leave the tape on too long. We painted stripes in Nikolas' room.
To do shadow stripes (if you're interested):
Paint the area the color you want in eggshell, then measure and tape off the area the following day.
Next paint the stripes the exact same color in a high gloss.
thanks - stupid question Stef - what are shadow stripes?
ALso - about how far apart should the stripes be?
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| Posted 7/29/09 8:38 AM |
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Jenn627
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Re: Any advice for painting stripes?
Posted by Diana1215
thanks - stupid question Stef - what are shadow stripes?
ALso - about how far apart should the stripes be?
Shadow stripes are the stripes that are the same color but different finish. We did it in our living room - but we used matte paint and high gloss paint. So it went matte stripe, gloss stripe, matte, gloss. It's more subtle than using different colors.
We did 7 3/4" wide stripes... I wanted 8" - but we only did one wall so they just measured it out and did the stripes so they'd all be exactly the same width. We had a painting company do it - we were having our whole house painted at the time.
My brother did it in his house - he said it was very tedious! The measuring is the hard part!!
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| Posted 7/29/09 11:43 AM |
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JoesWife628
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Re: Any advice for painting stripes?
After you tape, paint inward. Do not paint outward over the tape because the paint can bleed under the stripes. Using a brush or roller just paint inward over the tape. (i hope that makes sense)
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| Posted 7/29/09 12:33 PM |
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Goobster
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Re: Any advice for painting stripes?
Message edited 9/11/2010 1:21:46 PM.
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| Posted 7/29/09 2:54 PM |
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Diana1215
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Re: Any advice for painting stripes?
Posted by Goobster
We did this.
A wider stripe is more casual, closer more formal. We went with wider, 12 inch stripes. I will post more info about how we did after.
Thanks! 
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| Posted 7/30/09 10:23 AM |
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sj-girl
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Re: Any advice for painting stripes?
we just painted our nursery with a stripe
we painted the whole room one day, then the next day we did the stripe.
Dh used that blue painters tape and peeled it off as soon as he was done painting.
Eta: here's 2 pic's there not the best pic
Message edited 7/30/2009 11:15:39 AM.
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