Painting the Nursery

Back before Malcolm was born, Allyson and I decided to paint the nursery. Allyson found a picture online of a nursery where one wall was painted like multicoloured checkerboard. I had a look at the picture, determined that it was within my abilities to recreate, bought some paint and made the room look like this:

If you are interested in seeing how it was done, click the link below and read on...

First we had to plaster the nail holes in the wall and cover up the green paint with primer (the old green was good quality paint, it took three coats of primer before it stopped showing through). Next step was to mark where our white lines would go and put a few coats of white there. Once that was dry, we used strips of 24mm painters tape to mark the square we wanted to colour while protecting the white lines.

Then we coloured in the squares colour by colour.

We used separate rollers for each colour. Between coats of paint, we rinsed out the rollers, squeezed out as much water as we could, and wrapped the rolls tightly in aluminium foil to keep them from drying out.

After all the paint was finally dry, it was time to take off the painter's tape and have a look at our pretty wall. Then we put the baseboards, light fixture, and outlet covers back on and the renovations were done.