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Paint the whole room in the primary stripe color. In the above example, the whole room was painted in a denim blue first, then allowed to dry overnight,, before taping off and adding the navy and red stripes.
Engineering the Layout
You will need a pencil ( not a pen ), and a standard tape measure. Layout your stripes, one wall at a time. Measure down from the ceiling and mark where your first stripe will be and mark with a pencil every two feet or so, then lay down the blue tape and press the tape tightly to the wall by rubbing it down with a piece of cardboard to ensure a good tight bond to the wall. Continue marking and taping off the rest of the stripes until the wall it complete. Move on to the next wall and continue the same process and then the next wall. When all four walls are marked, taped and rubbed down, you are ready to paint.
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An alternative to the usual vertical striping, horizontal stripes offer a nice change of pace from the standard.
The key to a successful striping job whether vertical or horizontal stripes, is the tape. You cannot afford to have paint bleed under your tape ruining your crisp clean lines.
The tape of choice for striping is the #2080 blue tape made by 3M.
It is best to pull the tape off while the paint is still wet, but in the above example I had to paint two coats to get good hiding, so I had to let the paint dry (first coat) before pulling the tape off, and I had no problems with paint pull off. In the above example, all the paints from the "base" coat paint to the red and navy stripe paint, was satin latex paint. The previous paint on the wall was a flat paint.
The stripes can be unequal widths as with the above job, or the can be all the same widths. I think with horizontal striping that varying the widths is more interesting as a rule.
I use a sponge roller for striping. I do so to prevent pushing the paint under the tape which can happen with longer nap roller covers. Use light but equal pressure on the sponge roller and you should not have any bleeding problems. In the above example, I got clean, crisp lines without any bleeding using the #2080 blue tape, rubbing it down and applying the paint with a sponge roller.
Faux Stripes: Horizontal Striping
Choosing colors
Use colors for your stripes that are already in the room. Pull colors from the bedspread, curtains, carpet, or from accessories in the room.
Layout
It is common to do a grouping of stripes in the middle of the wall.
When masking off the room with horizontal stripes, I will mask the whole room before starting.
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