Ombre Wall

After Tessa’s room got a re-do, the other kids started thinking their rooms needed one too.  🤦🏽‍♀️ Tessa’s was very labor-intensive, which I’m not about to do to everybody’s bedrooms right now, but Grace’s room was in need of a little updating.  I painted that room when Claire was 2 (almost 10 years ago)- and there were a lot of spots that needed to be repainted.  The most desperate wall was right behind her bed, so I decided to start with an accent wall there.

I grabbed 6 “colors to go” from Sherwin Williams.  Actually, I didn’t grab them- I called ahead and picked them up curbside- but that’s besides the point. Strange times, y’all.  Here are the colors I went with:

I divided the height of the room by 6, and then made marks for where each section would be with a pencil. Then I put painter’s tape on the pencil marks.I cut in the top and sides with the first color, and then rolled it, being sure not to go past the tape. I then trimmed and rolled the second and third colors, leaving a space between each color.  To blend the colors together, I rolled a fresh coat of paint from the top color into the empty space, and then did the same with the bottom color.  Then I took a cheap, disposable brush and used a back and forth motion between the two colors of wet paint to blend the colors in the middle. It turned out exactly how I had hoped, and was really fun to do.  And Grace is loving it. I mean, how can you not love these happy spring colors?And that wall fits this girl’s personality PERFECTLY.