Stripes stripes stripes stripes stripes stripes!

I wrote that title while singing that song, 'Shots shots shots... '.  Ha.  

As Tom is vacuuming the house right now... and he just hung up blinds in our bedroom too.  

I know one day this will all be done with - right?!?!

Tom painted the stripes in the boy's bedroom yesterday.  Looks pretty sweet I must say!  I think it will look much better when the room is set up.  But that won't happen for a long while, actually.  Still need to finish 4th bedroom.

Mickey mudded the dry wall in the boy's closet today.  Yesterday Mickey was here too.  Tom and him worked on the concrete countertop for the kids bathroom and also insullated the attic furnace some more.

The stripes process went like this:

Here are the plain walls

Found the pattern in a Sherwin Williams booklet at their store.  Loved it.  Chose the blue colors I want for stripes.

Of course, on that website, they have directions on how to do that... except they just tell you how to do stripes.  And don't tell you that exact pattern layout.  So, we used a tape measure and 3/16" counted for 3" on our wall, 1/16" counted for 1" on our wall, etc.

So, once we got that laid out on the floor for those two walls, we used a level for the entire length of the wall to make each stripe.

She took her chair out and wanted to watch

Then, we started placing tape against each pencil line - floor to ceiling.  Had to use a ladder for the top part - so that wasn't easy!

We had a little helper!  She HAD to get her gloves :)

The tape, ALL of it!  (the yellow tape is hard to see - we ran out of yellow)

Finished product!!