Setting up a Nursery, Part 3

We completed the next major step of painting the nursery this past weekend. Lindsay chose a nice sunny yellow color along with a darker yellow for doing stripes. The color scheme really works with the black furniture and blue accents that we're going to have.

We got the base-coat completed earlier in the week, and thankfully only needed one gallon / one coat thanks to the high quality of Lowe's Valspar 'Signature Series' paint that we had to get because the color Lindsay picked was from the Eddie Bauer line. That was some pretty good paint compared to the stuff we got from Wal-Mart the last time.

Painting the Stripes
Painting the stripes was pretty tricky, but rewarding. The plan was to have the stripes go from the floor to where the chair molding will go, so we started by measuring off that distance and then with the help of a handy little $14.99 laser level from Target, I marked off 4" increments. That part wasn't too bad, but what took all the time was getting the vertical lines taped off. For each one I had to stick the laser level on the wall lined up with my mark, project the vertically level line to the floor and then carefully tape off the laser line. The idea was the chair molding would cover both the over-painting at the top of the stripe and the pinhole that the level left behind. Three full rolls of painters tape and three evenings later we had perfect stripes!

The best part is, no repeat trips to Lowes for more paint (just more painters tape).