Wall Paint With Tape Design – DIY striped wall tutorial! You can check out my latest tutorial here where I made black and white stripes on my main bedroom wall. That one everyone thought was wallpaper, but nope – just paint, a bunch of blue tape and a weekend of work.

Now, before we get into today’s tutorial, some background information on how this project came about. I’m currently in the middle of the One Room Challenge and I ran

Wall Paint With Tape Design

Trying to figure out what kind of accent wall I wanted to create in my room. No, seriously. I even dreamed about them. Finally, I was able to narrow down all my inspiration to two favorites.

Mural Artist And Illustrator, Austin, Tx- A Diy Accent Wall How To — Avery O Design

These two really cute walls use wood trim to create the geometric pattern, but as a renter, that wasn’t an option for me. Instead, Ira came up with the idea of using matte and semi-gloss black paint to create the tone-on-tone striped look, mimicking the effect of the wall finish.

Wall finish in my life, I had already done bright stripes over flat paint about 10 years ago for my Victoria’s Secret themed room (it was fashionable and I wanted to be an angel, okay?) and had a headache one after the other. Getting the lines right, making sure the tape doesn’t remove the base paint, using polyurethane to create the shine effect…just a huge DIY nightmare. The only thing that convinced me to change my mind was how amazing those streaks looked in the end.

So, I took Ira’s idea to paint the stripes and WOW. I’m glad I did it. They look even better than I imagined and indeed

Quick disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. When you use them to make a purchase, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thanks in advance for contributing to my blog and supporting my Target addiction 😉

Bamboo Masking Tape Wall Pattern

I’ve already explained my inspiration process so I won’t go into too much, but basically I looked at

Walls and different geometric patterns to decide what I liked best and what would look good in my room. Ultimately, I ended up narrowing it down to two main inspiration photos and then combined elements from each to create my own unique pattern.

3d Wall Art By Mahendra Meena

Clean any dirt and dust from the wall before you begin. Next, tape the edges of the wall and ceiling with multi-surface tape to keep unwanted paint transfer to a minimum.

Paint two coats over the entire wall using a flat finish paint. I let my first coat dry overnight before painting the second, but there should be plenty of time between coats. After the second coat, I let the wall dry / cure for 3 days before taking the next step. You MUST let the wall dry for at least 48 minutes before painting the stripes, or you risk ruining your new paint job with masking tape in the next step.

Using the sensitive tape, stick your pattern to the wall. I used strips of wood to keep the spacing straight and even throughout the design, but you can use any straight piece of material. We started by using a piece of wood to make our baseline at the angle we wanted. Hold the wood to the wall and secure it with masking tape. When laying tape, it is much easier to use several smaller, all-manipulated pieces to create the lines rather than a long piece of tape. As you tape, rub each piece to make sure it is completely sealed around the edges. Remove the piece of wood – this is where you will be painting with the gloss paint.

Use another piece of wood to define the distance between the first and second lines, making sure to keep the same angle throughout the design. Line up the end of a piece of wood with the side of the first line, then use the first piece of wood to mark where the next line will be engraved. We used wood of different lengths and sizes to create an abstract look in our pattern, but the angles of each line were consistent. ONLY

Create Incredible Feature Walls Using Masking Tape And Paint Testers

Have a copy of your design/pattern handy as you’ll be referring to it a lot to make sure you’re on track. I found it helpful to highlight the lines in my drawing while taped to the wall so I could see which line I should make next. After you tape everything together, you use a utility knife to cut out the spaces where the tape intersects so that all the stripes flow into each other.

This whole process took about an hour and a half, so be patient! It is definitely worth your time to put into the final result and make sure everything is right.

Unfortunately, I forgot to take photos as we went along, but you can watch a quick time-lapse of our entire recording process!

Go It’s very easy to get into painting mode and start painting anywhere. Also, when you are close to the wall, you can’t see the whole pattern, so this will help you to get confused/lose your design. However, if you use the gloss paint in the wrong place, don’t worry – paint over it!

Wall Paint Design Ideas With Tape That Will Completley Transform A Room

Paint the edges of the ribbon (inside where the shiny paint goes) with flat paint. This will seal the edges of the tape and any paint that remains underneath will have the same finish as the wall.

When the edges are almost dry, you can fill in the stripes with semi-gloss paint. I used a brush to do 2 thick coats on each strip, letting it dry for about 30 minutes between each.

Pull the tape off the wall while the paint is still tacky and let the wall dry completely. After seeing our finished design, we decided to add a few more stripes to the top half of the wall to make the stripes stand out. We repeat steps 7 and 8 and that’s it!

I love how the stripes add so much interest to the room while still blending into the background. You guys already know I’m obsessed with black walls, so stripes are the icing on the cake for me. I’m talking about a super beautiful, delicious and temperamental frosting.

Diy Sunburst Rainbow Accent Wall

These stripes look amazing and I can’t wait for the rest of the room to be finished so I can really enjoy them. Right now the mattress on the floor is making it a little hard to focus on how cute the wall is, ha! Be sure to follow my progress in the One Room Challenge and follow me on Instagram for more photos of this striped beauty! If you’ve seen photos of the interior of our home, you’ll know that we love bold patterns and bright colors. In fact, only one room and the downstairs bathroom use a neutral color palette.

We’ve slowly become more adventurous with our DIY projects over the years. Combining my crafting skills and Lee’s vision, we found that we made the perfect home decor team.

When we first bought our house in 2018, we decided to try something different in the living room; A big, heavy turquoise diamond – what’s the worst that could happen, right? If it looked like crap, we’d paint right over it.

In fact, it was all a great success (as you can probably imagine), and since then, each room has been a bit bolder and a bit more ambitious.

Diy Geometric Wall Design

The goal was to use some of the older colors lying around us (paint is very expensive!) and as a simple idea (paint the wall dark blue) something more amazing and beautiful first came.

The first thing we did was paint the wall with a layer of white paint. There were a lot of old marks and discolorations on the wall that we didn’t want to show, so we applied two coats of white while we worked on planning what it would look like.

I actually used Canva to help with this as it was much faster and easier than drawing by hand. We also changed the color scheme; Do we choose something random or something more standardized?

Now that we knew what we were doing, all we had to do was tape up the wall. This is always the hardest part because it has to be as accurate as possible, especially when working with geometric shapes.

How To Use Frog Painter’s Tape To Create A Plaid Check Accent Wall

I did the horizontal lines first to provide structure. Unfortunately, these walls often feel to do