Daily Archives: January 15, 2013

Stripes in the Laundry Room

One of my long time items on my project list has been to paint our laundry room.  We have lived in our home for 4 years and that room, and a few others, still has the original flat primer it was built with.  So after too much time on Pinterest I found my idea…stripes.  So after I completed the base satin finish paint I moved on to taping.

Taping the lines

I would be lying if I said this was the fun part.  I decided on a smaller 4 inch stripe.  This meant a lot of measuring and  lot of tape.  This was the progress I made in about 30 minutes.  Thank goodness it is a small room.

Mommy’s Helpers

 

That’s right, Mommy has 2 little helpers.  I went off to look to the intertubes for advice on taping only to return to a closed laundry room door.  To my horror my 18m old and 33m old had removed the tape and even drew me a few lines.  While my husband thought it was hilarious I thought about crying.  The little ones said, “We are helping Mommy.  Pres is doing tape and I am making lines.”  So cute!

Painting

Painting was the easy part.  I was smart this time and waited for the kids to go to bed which meant for continuous, distraction free painting.  Once the painting was complete I requested the help of my husband to remove the tape before the paint dried.

The finished product

I finally got to hang up my Mother’s Day gift!  I love this phrase because in a home full of kids…it is so true!!!  I think once the paint has dried I will hang up a little clothes line under the quote, add some clothes pins, and a few things.  I was thinking maybe a pair of jeans with a hole in the knee, a sock or 2, and a stained up baby shirt.

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