We recently moved our toddler into a "big girl" room and I decided to do an accent wall with a herringbone design. My husband was very skeptical and said it was going to be "too busy." I assured him I was going to do it in a larger scale so it wouldn't be so busy. The herringbone design can be busy, so be sure to use a bigger scale when doing this. I made my design 9"x18". After priming the walls to get a dark purple off the wall, I then painted the accent wall white. I wanted the lines to be white and the "boxes" to be a light pink. I first started by finding the center of the wall and the very bottom along the base board. From there, I drew lines at a 45* angle that were 9" apart. I planned to have my design be 9"x18" boxes. It took me only 2 days to do this project by myself while I was 9 months pregnant and with a toddler "helping" me. It's fairly simple. The biggest part of the project was getting the 9" grid lines on the wall. That took me a better portion of a day to do. It is difficult to see in this picture, but you can faintly make out the 9"x9" grid I drew on the wall with pencil.
After that, I took Frog tape in 27 1/2" lengths and put them on the wall to create the design. This took a little time to make sure I was getting the pattern correct. I added 1/2" of tape to make sure there was a little overlap in the tape.
Once the tape was finally up, I then painted. This part did not take very long since it was only 1 wall. I put 2 coats on the wall. After the paint had time to dry slightly, I began to pull the tape off the wall. It looked great! It was a fun project with a beautiful result!
Any further questions on how this was done, please email me at thehomesteadedmom@gmail.com
Enjoy!
Very neat! That took some patience!
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