By Sarah
Just about forever ago, I posted a call for help and asked for your recommendations as to what color I should paint my bedroom. Fast forward 6 (okay okay, 8) months and it's finally done! I love what everyone recommended (lots of bright colors!) but in the end, I was totally swayed by this demo video I saw on DIY Network. Once I saw the orange stripes there was no going back -- I knew it's what I had to do.
If you recall, here's what the room looked like before:
Splotchy brown and blue, ick
And here's the room now!
Orange! Stripes!
The stripes were actually surprisingly easy to achieve (with the use of a laser level and someone with a steady hand to hold the laser level, of course.) The hardest part was figuring out where I wanted the stripes to start and how thick I wanted them to be. Once everything was primered and the base color was down, it was pretty quick and painless to paint the stripes.
To make it easy on my un-savvy self, I decided to pick four colors that were all from the same swatch. The colors I chose (from lightest to darkest) are Pale Ecru (this covers most of the walls), Crab Bisque (smallest stripe), Indiana Clay (middle stripe) and Field Poppy (biggest chunk of orange at the bottom.) All the colors are by Olympic.
So there you go! I am really pleased with how it turned out and like that it's something unique, while not being overly busy-looking. (Although now I'm basically obsessed with stripes and it's all I can do to stop myself from striping the entire house!)
For more pictures, check out the Style Lush Cribs Flickr pool and add your home decor pictures to the mix if you want!
{Photo credits: Me}
I love! the stripes.
Posted by: Kerri Anne | January 12, 2011 at 01:51 PM
just happened upon your blog today... turns out i bought the exact same stool at tj maxx yesterday! it is just what i needed to reach those top shelves in the closet :)
Posted by: ashley maureen | January 12, 2011 at 01:54 PM
I love this. So, so much. Filing this away for later when I live somewhere that I can actually paint the walls.
Posted by: stephanie | January 12, 2011 at 02:01 PM
I love it! Can you please come paint my bedroom?
Posted by: Maggie | January 12, 2011 at 03:30 PM
LOVE it.
Posted by: kat | January 12, 2011 at 03:55 PM
I love your bedroom, it reminds me of a boutique-y hotel room.
Posted by: barbetti | January 12, 2011 at 03:59 PM
I LOVE this! I'm doing stripes in my bedroom, but I'm doing the big vertical stripes in the same tone with different finishes techniques, flat and semi gloss. I have to keep this in mind for the next room we redo :)
Posted by: Shauna | January 12, 2011 at 07:59 PM