Many times I’m privileged to work with different members of the same family.
Recently, I painted metallic stripes for nursery. Twice!
Emily is expecting a baby girl in a few months and asked for gold metallic stripes in her nursery. Emily’s mom, Christina, liked the idea as well so grandma’s nursery received silver metallic stripes!
Today I’m sharing all the details on how to paint your own metallic stripes.
WHERE TO START
1. Paint a good base coat. Be sure to have extra paint on hand for touch ups.
2. Measure the width of your wall. Christina’s wall was 140.5″ wide.
THE MATH
4. Determine the approximate width you’d like your stripes to be.
Based on an inspiration photo I estimated the stripes to be between 10″ and 12″ wide.
5. Divide the width of the wall by the width of your estimated stripe.
140.5 ÷ 10″ = 14.05 stripes
140.5 ÷ 12″ = 11.70 stripes
I wanted an odd number of stripes.
HINT: An odd number of stripes will allow you to begin and end your wall of stripes with the same color.
6. Divide the width of the wall by the number of stripes you prefer.
140.5 ÷ 11 stripes = 12.77″ wide = 6 metallic stripes and 5 base coat stripes
140.5 ÷ 13 stripes = 10.80″ wide = 7 metallic stripes and 6 base coat stripes
13 stripes @ 10.80″ wide was the winner.
7. Find and mark the center of your wall.
8. Divide the width of your stripe in half.
10.80″ ÷ 2 = 5.40″
9. Starting at your center mark, measure 5.40″ to the left and make a tick mark. Repeat measurement to the right and make a tick mark.
10. Using a long level, vertically mark the wall from base to ceiling. I only used tick marks but you can also draw a solid vertical line with a pencil to mark the first stripe. (I didn’t want to worry about covering up that many pencil lines so I only used tick marks.)
11. Once you have marked the entire vertical line of your first stripe carefully tape off the stripe from ceiling to base. (Do as I say not as I did here. Below you will see I only taped as high as I could reach then went back and finished marking up to the ceiling. Much easier to do it all at one time)
HINT: I prefer using Frog Tape for this project. I’ve used blue painter’s tapes and Frog Tape seems to have the least amount of paint seeping under the tape.
Use a very firm hand when pressing the tape to the wall to prevent the paint from seeping under.
HINT : Be sure to place tape to the outside of each metallic stripe’s 10.80″ measurement.
12. Measuring from the edge of this first center stripe, measure and mark the width of your next stripe – 10.80″.
HINT: I suggest beginning in the center, marking and taping one stripe at a time instead of marking the entire width of your wall. This process can get confusing. Step back often to make sure you’re marking your stripes and taping off correctly.
HINT: As you tape, place a small piece of tape on the stripes that will not be painted. This will help you keep track of which stripes are which.
13. Tape the corners as well even if you’re really good at cutting in. I didn’t tape the ceiling for the silver stripes but I did when I painted the gold stripes. This step makes it easier as well.
THE SUPPLIES
Modern Masters Shimmer Metallic Paint in Silver Opaque
6″ paint roller
paint brush
paint tray
plenty of Frog Tape and drop cloths
14. Painting quickly, roll on each stripe cutting in when necessary.
Here you can see where marking the non-painted stripes really came in handy.
The stripes take on a different look depending how when and how the light hits them. These stripes were painted with one coat of the opaque metallic paint.
Base coat color: Benjamin Moore Harbor Gray
Now for the GOLD STRIPES!
Using the exact same process I marked and taped off Emily’s gold stripes. Emily’s wall was almost the exact width as her mom’s so I repeated the 13 stripe formula.
Working with the gold paint was just a little bit trickier because it wasn’t opaque like the silver is was Modern Masters Pale Gold Semi-Opaque.
The roller marks were more noticeable as I painted. I had to work much more quickly to keep a wet edge so the stripe would not end up with roller marks.
This shows the stripe with one coat of the semi-opaque Pale Gold paint. We chose to use 2 coats with the finished stripes still having a slight transparent appearance. 3 coats would have resulted in an opaque finish.
Like the silver metallic, the gold stripes have a different appearance depending on how and when the light hits.
Both rooms took approximately 4 hours to paint. 2.5 hours to measure, mark and tape, 45 minutes to paint and 45 minutes to clean up.
In this photo you can see the slightly transparent appearance of the gold stripes.
I loved using this metallic paint. Both colors created a wonderful metallic finish.
The bedding in both nurseries will be in shades of ivory and cream. Emily plans to include black in her color scheme as well. So elegant! Perfect for a little princess!
Modern Masters Paints are available online and at Munger Paint and Wallcovering in Oklahoma City.
ADDITIONAL PAINT PROJECTS
Original article and pictures take sonyahamiltondesigns.com site
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