DIY black and white striped walls.

 

Hello Lovers, here is my tutorial on my, DIY black and white striped wall. I am completely mad about black and white. My love affair began during my first trip to Sephora, I was fresh out of college and was discovering make-up and all things beauty. I was enamored with the décor and their shopping bags. Since then, black and white has always been a staple with mostly everything. It is just, simple gorgeously chic. In the four apartments I have lived in, outside of my parents home, three have had striped walls. In two of those apartments, I have painted been black and white stripes. The other stripes were sage green and Chinese jade. Although, I am not an expert, I have some experience with stripes. The more I do them the easier they become, as I learn new techniques.  I prefer the vertical lines just because it's easier. I will work on horizontal lines one of these projects. Please note, it took me about 1hr and 45 minutes to complete from start to finish. The wall I used is in my entryway and I wanted to add the Jewel effect to it and to compliment my zebra print bench. The wall measures 4x6, and I painted 7 black stripes. The white on the wall is decorators white, which was painted before I moved in.


This is a panel painted from a previous apartment.

Wall taped and painted.

After tape was removed.

 

Full length mirror from Ikea.

 

My painted end table, I love hot pick paired with black and white.

 

 

List of supplies:

Blue painter's tape

Small rolling brush ( smooth finish)

Small paint brush ( for hard to reach areas and corners)

Paint tray

pencil

Jet black paint from Benjamin Moore in eggshell

Newspaper to protect the floor (optional, as I did not use any)

 

I measured the stripes to be 5" wide, as I did not want them to be too skinny or two wide for my wall. After measuring the 5', I taped the wall all the way down to the boarder. For the white area, I began the tape where the black stripe should end and as you can see in first picture I put a piece of tape on the area that was going to be white so that I didn't make the mistake of painting it black. Then I began the next stripe within the white area to ensure each stripe was 5" wide. Ideally you would want to use a measuring tape, however, I measured the first stripes width, with the painters tape and used that size as a  sample for all the other stripes. I applied three coats of paint and allowed the paint to dry about 30 minutes before I removed the paint. Don't do that, allow the paint to dry a few hours before doing taking off the tape. When I removed the tape, although, the wall was pretty dry, the edges where not straight. Please considering painting the edges of  the tape the original color of the wall, in my case, decorators white, to ensure the black does not bleed. I was too hyped too wait and pick up a sample of the paint to avoid the uneven edges. It is bothersome to me when I look up close, I do not notice it through the picture so I am not going to loose sleep over it. That is all that there was too creating this look. I was very pleased with the outcome and for my new photo opt wall.

 

Christmas day photo opt.

 

The end table pictured above, was also painted. I had originally painted this about a year ago and it needed  a touch up. The pink paint used is beauty queen ( my favorite hot pink) by Behr and Gold leaf paint was used for the gold

Black and white and gold is so glam!

 

Well that's all there is to that!

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Thanks for reading, until the next project,

Jewelz!