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hey guys it's Ray from Green Apple
Painting and today we're gonna turn this room
into you this room!
now the biggest change that we're gonna do today
is obviously color and the big
you know wow factor is going to be the chevrons
on the walls below the chair rail so
I'm gonna get to that right now and we'll get started
I'm starting out by putting my base coat on
the walls below the chair rail and I'm
eventually I'm gonna re paint this baseboard so that's why I'm not taping that
off
if you're not gonna repaint your baseboards make sure you tape that off really well
and the color that I'm using on the
walls below the chair rail is a at least the base coat
is dovetail which is a Sherwin Williams color. Now that my base coat
is completely dry it's time to start the Chevrons
now the way we're gonna space these out is we're basically gonna go about 12
inches
wide but the chevron stripes themselves
are going to be six inches thick so what I've done
a lot of levels they will have the measurements on the side this is really
old one
so I don't know what I did was I just took a pencil mark and every six inches
I put a line so once I measure out
12 inches across from the corner
then I'll simply start to put this up, make sure its level,
and then everywhere I have six inches I'm just gonna put a mark
and I'll show you how to tape that later. With your lines
and marks now all drawn out the next step
is simply tape off the
chevrons. So what I'm going to do since this is my base coat
it's really simple you're just gonna go to
your lines to your marks which is every six inches
for me and put your tape on there
I wanna take a 5 in 1 so I kinda
get a nice straight line there
and you just alternating so obviously you go to the top here
and into the six inches here you go to the one that's a little bit higher here
and then go to the one that's a little over here keep track
of what part you're painting and what part you're not
because a common mistake is so I went
there's the mark right there and I went below that. So the common mistake would
be okay will do that here
but then that's gonna mess things up if you you know
if you're planning on tpainting this so since this is going to remain this color
here the darker color
that means I wanna go above the line on the next one
and since this
is gonna get painted will go below the line let me get larger piece
tape. Below the line
and that's
above the line
and the lower the lines
right like that.
so you can see I'll paint here
this is gonna remain the darker color I'll paint here
darker color and paid here and that
will remain the same color alright I'm going to keep taping
and as soon as I'm done that with that out what I'm gonna do is I'm going to paint
over all my edges with the base color so
just in case even though this frog tape and that's what I'm using frog tape here
even though this does a really great job of sealing the edges
I wanna make sure that if there's any
you know what pockets here that can't get into I'm gonna paint over with this
color:
so that I'll see you up those edges so I will keep on taping
and you can watch if you want
alright the tape is all
in place I have sealed the edges by painting the original color
over the top of all these edges and now I'm just gonna take a whizee the roller
and down paint this second color which
is Dorian Gray that's a Sherwin Williams color and I'm gonna paint that over this
and see how it looks! After the first coat dries
check to see if it needs another coat and if it doesn't go ahead
and pull the tape If it needs a second coat let it dry
but when you pull the tape make sure that the paint is still wet
generally are you don't want pull tape
after everything dries because there's a better chance
of this you know kinda sticking to the tape and then when pull you'll have a lot
issues
Whenever you feel this is ready I'm going to give this two coats but
when yours is our is ready to go make sure you pull that tape while it's still wet
the last step this point is to simply double check
all of your edges and if you have any pencil marks go ahead and touch those up
and then you are done with your chevron stripes
with the chevrons complete it's time to paint the
upper walls. If you'd like a complete tutorial
on how to paint walls click the link below
in the Show notes alright so I wanted to go over
some tricky spots that you're probably going to run into
In this case it's where a door is
you might run into this spot maybe where there's a corner something
like that for this
obviously I couldn't go any further and I didn't really you know
I could put a straight edge and I wasn't sure where this will end up
so all I did was I took you know where our line would normally be
where we would make our mark and I measured from there to the door stop
and in this case that was four inches so then I went backwards
four inches and found out how far down the stripe would be
in this case it was two inches so I simply measure from here to here and
then went down
to inches then you know went six inches from their six
inches from there from there from there
and that is how you do those tricky corners also
if you're just an inch you know maybe a half inch away from
you know of the corner or a door frame and just go ahead
and take that that extra inch
the human eye can catch a lot of things but it aint that good it's not gonna catch that
alright so that's the finished product I hope you liked it
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