In our new apartment, Mark and I decided to paint since we knew we'd be here a while. It makes a place feel so much more like home when the walls aren't stark, apartment-building white. In the living room, we duplicated a pattern we saw on a design blog that Mark follows. It was done using a tagboard template I created and took WAY longer than I thought it would at first. The fact that the tagboard started to warp after the first pattern sure didn't help. But with some creative taping and a very cute extra set of hands from Mark, we were able to finish it.
For Dane's room, I want to use the lighter of the blues from the living room, and use painter's tape to create a geometric pattern. But I want to do something more exciting than the typical stripe. I found this on ApartmentTherapyNY, and thought it would be decently easy to reproduce. For the sake of time, I think I'm going to limit the more complicated swath to a smaller stripe around the top 1/3 of the room. The tape I chose is also about 2 inches, versus this thinner tape. I was toying with the idea of doing a 1/8 turn, making the grid square instead of diamond, or maybe trying to use both thinner and wider tape. Not sure yet how it's going to work. I'll put the results up when I'm done. All of this to say that I need projects! My fear of feeling purposeless in this new phase of life is motivating my creativity like you wouldn't believe. I hand-pitted 2 lbs of cherries today while the babe was sleeping. There has to be an easier way...note to self: buy cherry pitter...
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