How to Paint a Plaid Wall

Dutch Boy Paint sent me some paint and asked me to review it on my blog (review here). 

I was inspired by this piece of flannel and I thought a yellow plaid wall would look awesome in my craft room.

 Step 1:  Paint the base coat on your wall. I used the golden sunny yellow of  Dutch Boy's Flickering Flame.

 Step 2: Tape off your horizontal lines.  I used a metal ruler and a water soluble marker to mark the lines and then rolled out the tape. (I forgot to take into consideration the width of the tape, so I ended up with rectangles more than squares).

Step 3:  Tape off your vertical stripes.

Step 4:  Mix 4 parts glaze and 1 part paint accent paint (you don't need a lot-I used 1/2 cup paint and 2 cups of glaze).

Step 5:  Apply the glaze mixture to the vertically stripes

Step 6:  With an old towel, blot off some of the glaze.

Step 7: Repeat steps 5 and 6 to the horizontal stripes.

Hopefully that makes sense. The idea is that the squares that get the glaze twice will be twice as dark.

I am thrilled with how it turned out. I painted the base coat a few weeks ago, and was worried that the plaid would take all day, but it only took me about 2 hours.

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