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Mask the Checkerboard Pattern

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Interior design bedroom painting ideas | Checkered Design Using FrogTape

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What happens here

With the grid marked, the next step is to apply the FrogTape to create the checkerboard pattern. The goal is to mask every other square to be painted. When applying the tape, meticulously place it so that the pencil lines for the squares that *will* be painted are left exposed, allowing them to be covered by the new paint. Conversely, for the squares that *will not* be painted, place the tape directly *over* the pencil line. This technique ensures that only the desired squares are painted and the pencil marks on the unpainted squares can later be touched up if visible. Use your fingers or a utility knife to firmly press down all tape edges, creating a strong seal to prevent paint bleed. Trim any excess tape at intersections for neat corners.

Goal: Precisely apply masking tape to define the checkerboard pattern for painting.

Tools and materials

  • FrogTape Yellow — Masking the squares for painting
  • Pencil — The guide marks for tape placement
  • Step Ladder Little Giant — Reaching higher sections of the wall for masking
  • Utility Knife — Trimming tape and pressing down tape edges

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[Music] okay I've got everything lined out now now I'm going to begin um masking with frog tape now I've used you know pencil to mark this thing out which you don't want to do is use a crayon don't use a Sharpie don't use a whiteboard pen anything that actually can bleed through your paint the paint will cover right over the pencil another tip I'm going to give you is when masking for a square like this square is not going to be painted this one will be painted if you take your tape and get it just over the pencil the pencil will get painted on the Square that doesn't or that's getting painted now the ones that aren't getting painted we're going to just go back cuz we just painted this wall and we'll touch up anything that has got a pencil mark on it so I'm going to be using frog tape yellow to mask off my lines and why do I use um frog tape and why do I use the color yellow frog tape does have a polymer on the outside of the tape that doesn't allow liquid I water based paints paints to actually you know flow underneath the tape the polymer swells when a liquid hits it and fills up any gaps any gaps and voids between your surface and the tape and then nothing will bleed through so you'll get nice crisp clean lines I'm using frog tape yellow because it's a crepe tape um crepe paper and it's thinner than all the other tapes that frog tape has and that thinness the the paper itself being super thin um you're not going to get large dams on the wall when I when I say a dam when I mask a line and I paint over the tape and then I pull the tape where the the ridge where the paint comes up against the tape and you pull it what didn't get painted it leaves kind of like a film thickness of paint a line there and that's totally fine until you want to repaint paint your walls if you go repaint your walls later on and you're using a really thick tape or if you're caulking over your tape uh when you repaint that wall you're going to see the lines really really bad on the wall you're going to have to skim coat the wall and retexture it to get rid of those lines now frog tape yellow uh leaves the Le the smallest amount of of a dam of any tape you'll use and you'll have a lot of success you'll be able to possibly repaint your walls and not see those lines you know down the road so I'm using frog tape delicate surface tape I'm also using the yellow I previously painted these walls I don't want to pull off any paint or anything off the wall so I do like um using that delicate…

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