How To Paint Horizontal Stripes On A Wall

Once your stripes are all taped and you ve double check to be sure your tape is on the correct side of the line go ahead and paint your stripes.

How to paint horizontal stripes on a wall.

Using a tape measure plot mark the wall with lines corresponding to the width of the stripes you wish to paint this will keep you from having to measure each stripe as you tape the wall. I did the entire room grey and wanted to add white stripes on one wall as an accent wall. Decide which color light or dark will be the first stripe. I paint from top to bottom and i highly recommend that you use a roller so that your brush marks don t show the more of a sheen that your paint has the more likely this is to happen.

When painting stripes on walls you re going to first paint the wall a solid color. This is the first step to painting stripes on a wall. Mark a small x with a pencil and measure the width of another stripe from that mark continuing until you ve marked and marked the edges of each stripe. Here s how to paint stripes on a wall horizontally.

Start at the top left corner of the wall and measure down for horizontal stripes or to the right for vertical stripes measuring the width of 1 stripe. In our case we wanted five stripes on the 92 1 2 inch wall. Starting from the top down to the floor use a measuring tape and a colored pencil to mark off how wide your horizontal stripes will be. Use a level to draw a straight horizontal line at the top and bottom of each stripe.