Green with Envy

Envious for a new color pallette that is. 
The eat in kitchen nook colors were OK, but we wanted to spice it up a bit.  We loved the chair rail, so decided to still keep the double tones.

We started with the all around color of the kitchen and top of the nook.  We went with a soft blue (I'll get exact color names soon!)  As for the stripes, originally we were going to do white and tan stripes, but found extra paint leftover from the previous owners.  It was the grey from the master bath.  Blue + grey = Love.

 After Matt went over the green with two coats of the Behr paint, we let it dry over night before I added the white stripes.

What I used:  level, 2 different size envelopes, pencil and painters tape

 Instead of using measuring tape, I used two different size envelopes (junk mail) to measure the chunky grey stripes and thinner white striped area.  That's right, very sophisticated junk mail.  I'm a regular Picasso when it comes to painting.

 

 After drawing the striped lines in, I used painters tape to line the outside of the grey stripes so I could paint the white stripes in.

Then I painted a couple of coats of white paint and took the painters tape off before it dried all the way(always pull off at an angel, away from the new paint).

DRUM ROLL PLEASE...

Ahhhhh... much better.

There you have it, my first time painting stripes!  PS the stripes were Matt's idea.  Genius!