stripes, stripes baby

Yes, I convinced my husband to let me paints stripes on the guest bedroom wall.  And yes, I convinced him to help.  All I've got to say is I'm one hell of a good cook.

The guest bedroom has been a work in progress.  Actually, that's a lie.  The guest bedroom has been a dumping ground so that we can make the rest of the house look nice:

I'm turning red just thinking of someone who's not blood-related seeing this.  This is basically everything in my house that doesn't have a home.  Except that picture of Remy above the desk.  Because I love that.. a lot.  I don't know what snapped inside of me that made me so determined to clean this room out, but it did.  And this is how it looks now:

Alright, this is how one wall looks now... but doesn't it look awesome?  The color is the same greige I've used all over my house (the dining room, our bedroom, and soon to be every other room I can sneak a paint roller into).  It's Valspar's Oregon Coast.  A year or two ago, greige cast its spell on me, and I picked up a swatch of Oregon Coast and tucked it between our headboard and the wall.  It lived there for at least a year, while I painted samples of countless other greiges on my terrible green bedroom walls.  I should've known that this first swatch would be the one to make its way into our home.

Anyway, the stripes could not have been easier.  They took a little math and a lot of dedication, but it was a relatively easy night's work.  I looked at about a hundred pictures on pinterest to decide the width and orientation that I wanted, and then read about four different tutorials before picking a method that would work for us.  We just painted the whole wall greige, and then purchased a quart of the ivory stripe color (for me, it was two shades lighter on the same card).  We measured out the lines at a few spots across the wall, and then Bubba just free-balled the taping.  Free-handed.  He's actually quite good at that.  Of course, we checked it with a level afterwards, and made sure to place the tape on the inside of what would be the greige block (under the line, followed by over the line, so on and so forth..).   A couple of coats later, and I've got my beautiful stripes.  Seriously, it's worse than when I first got my engagement ring.  CAN'T STOP LOOKING.