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Striped Wave Wallpaper DIY

Ingredients

  • paint colors of choice
  • painter's tape
  • paint brush

Instructions

  • First, I took a picture of each wall in the room and printed them out so they were side by side on paper (I just made them all the same size in a Photoshop document). Then I drew out some ideas with a pencil of a general idea where I wanted the wave to be on each wall.
  • Once I had that blueprint, I used painter’s tape to rough out where the wave would actually be on each wall. It was also important to have big furniture pieces where they should go on the wall during the taping so you could see how the waves would sit in relation to the furniture.
  • Once my tape felt like a good size and balance, I took light colored pencils that were close to the paint color I was using and traced just inside of the painter’s tape lines so I would have an outline to follow with my paint. If you like to tape off lines when you paint them, you could tape each color off and tape and paint them one at a time like I did on this rainbow wall. But I will say that taping off curves is not my favorite thing, so I just decided to paint them freehand.
  • I divided up the wave into four sections (relatively equal but I left some areas not equal for a more organic look) with the colored pencil lines and then set about filling in the lines with each color of paint!