Stripes!

I decided to take the plunge on Sunday and paint my bathroom wall in red stripes. I had it in my head that it would be an easy and cheap project because, after all, it is just one small wall and I wasn't even painting every bit of it. Well. It was cheap; the paint and supplies cost me about $20. But easy? Not so much. The tape took some time to put up, as expected, and the 3 coats of paint went on pretty easily. However, when I took the tape off later in the evening to admire my handiwork, I found out that painters tape? Is the devil's adhesive. The red paint had bled under every. single. edge of tape on the wall. My beautiful straight lines were raggedy and horrible to look at.*headdesk* So, then I got to spend the next 3-4 hours fixing the paint job on the wall. I took a 1/4 art brush and white paint and cleaned up each and every stripe edge on the wall, from top to bottom.

And then to add insult to injury, while I was standing on my tub painting the wall above the tiles, the towel rack that is grouted into my tub tile decided I had leaned on it a little too hard and fell. The ceramic end shattered and left a huge gaping hole in my shower tiles. I'm trying to decide if I want to attempt to fix it myself or get my landlord's handymen to do it for me.

The bright side to all this effort is that now I have red stripes in my bathroom!







They are bold without being eye searing and they really bring together all the little red things I'd been trying to add to the other side of the bathroom. I'm really pleased with how they finally turned out and, once I get that towel rack fixed, I'll have one room of my house completely finished! \o/

(Four more to go!)