Been busy painting...

I can't just let things "be" in my house. I feel like I am always working on something or redoing something. The last project I worked on was a big one, so I took some time off and we had a busy wedding filled/traveling TONS summer. Once we got settled back in, I got an itch! Pinterest is my guilty pleasure and I had seen a couple of different painted "statement" walls that caught my eye SO I decided to give it a try in our guest room.

While I was pregnant with Tyler I painted our guest bedroom and I LOVED the color! I would have loved to have painted our guest room that same color but our new guest room is MUCH smaller than our last one and I was worried that the gray would make the room look even smaller. So an accent wall was the answer!!


FIRST... I painted the wall gray (Behr Ultra Elephant Skin)

SECOND...my Pinterest inspiration

Source: rosenberryrooms.com via Erica on Pinterest

Source: littlenannygoat.blogspot.com via Erica on Pinterest

Source: jonesdesigncompany.com via Erica on Pinterest

I used the the above link to get a template to draw on the walls. I ended up increasing the size of the one they used on this link. I wanted mine to be a bit bigger and I figured if I did bigger I would have less work to do (not as much tracing or painting).

THIRD... I made a template with a piece of cardboard then I traded it on the wall, 150 TIMES!  Hopefully you can see the pencil marks next to the ones I had already painted. Once I had all the symbols traced on the wall I used a 1/2 inch flat brush to paint around pencil marks. I used the same color to paint around the pencil marks that is on the other three walls.

All done!! I just love how it turned out!! I think it makes the room really pop without making it look too dark!!