Fresh & Fab Family Room: How to Paint a Bold Feature Wall
Create a bold feature wall with these paint tips!
We all have things that we love to do that we find fun and relaxing. Therapeutic, even.
Some people love to chill with a cup of tea and a good book. Others hit the road and find their happy space pounding the pavement.
And a few people, including myself, love the relaxing satisfaction of painting.
Crank up the tunes, fill your tray, and just paint a wall.
And today’s update on our basement family room makeover for the FrogTape Paintover Challenge involves just that: time to paint a bold feature wall!
If you’ve been following along for the last couple of weeks then you know that I, along with five other amazing bloggers, am participating in the FrogTape Paintover Challenge. We are each making over a room in our homes according to a design style that we have been assigned and using FrogTape as a key DIY tool.
Two weeks ago I shared my horrendous “before” pictures and my inspiration plan…
And last week I shared the whole process involved in designing, measuring, and taping a design onto your wall prior to painting it.
I chose to do a bold and graphic greek key design behind our TV/Media console, as well as an irregular striped wall in our alcove area.
Here is how it looked after measuring and taping out the two different designs…
Now for the fun part; it’s time paint a bold feature wall {or two!}…
Start by making sure that you FrogTape is perfectly sealed by running either your fingers or a tool like a ruler or credit card. The awesome thing about FrogTape is that it has a special system to ensure a perfect seal and no bleeding or drip through.
Now fill your roller tray up and get painting. Of course it would make sense to use a smaller roller as well, but I only had larger ones on hand and it worked perfectly well! Just be careful to keep your roller between the FrogTape.
And… after two coats, it was completely done!
Isn’t this the most exciting part?!?!
I can’t wait to get in there and peel that tape off….
And you do want to peel it off while your last coat of paint is still wet.
Buuuuuuuuuuut!
I’m going to make you wait until next week for the full paint makeover reveal!
In the meantime, head over to see what kind of incredible designs the rest of the amazing bloggers in this challenge are painting for their room makeovers this week!