Our new apartment, while being larger, also ended up feeling more desolate because of the large, generic apartment-white painted rooms. So, in an effort to make our big, white space feel like home, we did a little painting. We've done three rooms so far, with plans to eventually do a couple more, including our bedroom. The only problem is that we'll have to prime over all our hard work when we move out. We had thought about wallpaper (too expensive and messy), textured wall tiles (again, expensive), stenciling (not really on a large enough scale) and finally decided to try painting a pattern. The first is one Mark found online that I was able to reproduce using a large, tagboard stencil that I created. This one took about 6 hours to do, using two colors of paint and realizing about 1/4 of the way in that tagboard doesn't hold up well with wet paint.
The guest bedroom, which our moms are using while staying with us for now and will eventually be Dane's room, was done with a couple widths of painter's tape. We based the design on one used by a decorative painter that is a contributor to ApartmentTherapy's ColorTherapy section. It turned out okay, but if I had to do it over, I'd probably use the wider-width tape on all the portions of the pattern.
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