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.