How To Paint A Stripe. Painting Stripes On Walls.

In this video, we're going to show you how you can actually paint a stripe in a bedroom blue. And we're going to explain to you the simple process of how we created this little fun stripe for a children's room. And we've got a dark blue color here and a light blue color right here that's above it. And the first thing we did is we actually rolled a flat and it's a P2 gray primer, flat primer on the wall from Sherwin Williams. We rolled that primer on the wall and that dried in about 20 minutes. And then after that, we determined the height that we wanted our chair rail stripe to go to. And it's typically right around the 3T 4T mark. But you're going to just go around with a tape measure, drop it to the floor, and just put little marks around your room at the height that you want your stripe to be, and put those marks about 2 in above where you want it to be. And those little marks are going to be a reference point that you're going to take the dark blue up and paint beyond where the stripe is going to be. So that dark blue's got to be painted up about this high. So we went around the room and with the P2 primer, the dark blue covered in one coat. And so after that was dry, it dries about two hours, then we came back and then you can mark your top line right here where the tape's going to go and you can go around and take a tape measure and just mark from the floor to the top of the line. And there's one other option that's a little more expensive or you can rent rent rent one from actually a rental store here in Boise. I know there's a place called Tates. You can set up a laser level right in the middle of your room and it'll spin. It'll create a line right around your room that you can mask. But the the cheapest, simplest way, run a tape measure to the floor and and just hold that tape measure and start making little marks all around your room at the height that this um line's going to be right here. And then we actually use what's called a chalk line. And the line pulls out and is a string. And we'll hold it from one corner of the room to the other corner of the room. And you'll want to make sure that line is in line with all the little little hash marks that you made at that same height going all the way around. And then you're going to take and pull and snap your line. And it's going to create a little red chalk line right there. And then you're going to run your piece of tape all along. And we actually use frog tape. And the green frog tape will be run all the way around over the top of the dark blue. And then we're going to do the same thing. Create marks at the height and of this bottom line. And so we're going to go and put little hash marks all the way around the room. And we typically do it about every foot, every two feet. And that's going to give you little tiny marks and a reference point to snap your next line. And then your next line you're going to take and snap a line. And then you're going to run your frog tape along that next line right here. And so you're going to have two pieces of tape that's going to create this center portion that's going to be painted right here. Once the tape is on, we take and we smear on the edges of the tape. We smear clear cocking so it doesn't your white paint won't bleed through your frog tape and it'll create a nice crisp line. So we'll smear our frog tape around the whole line on the whole room. And then we'll we rolled our light blue color all along here to create this line. Then we rolled our white, light blue color down over the frog tape on the next line and then completed our walls while this was still wet. We pulled off the tape and we had our two lines. You want to make sure you pull off that tape while your paint and cocking is still wet. Otherwise, it's going to peel the cocking and paint off the wall and leave a jagged mark. And that's the process that we went through creating these stripes in this bedroom.