From Blah to Beautiful - Stenciled Feature Wall

by Refashionably Late

Our entire house has needed new paint so we've been working on one room at a time. My current project is our guest room. I'm planning to participate in the One Room Challenge next month and I've gotten a tiny bit of a head start with the painted walls. Here is what our guest room looked like before. It was pretty much the room where all things "extra" were placed. Nothing matched or went together.

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I started with painting the ceilings and walls with a bright white flat paint. I then used latex Tricorn Black by Sherwin Williams Duration Home series. As I said I wanted a dramatic feel and white and black are the perfect colors to create a striking feature wall.

I chose to use the Charlotte Allover Stencil Pattern because I thought it would compliment the dramatic feel I was going for. I started with measuring out the center of the wall and started stenciling from the top. When stenciling, you need to secure your stencil to the wall so it will not come loose or fall down when you roll over it. Here is what it looked like after the first stencil was finished. I highly recommend purchasing the clip-on level because it helps keep things straight. As I was doing this project I realized the top of my walls weren't perfectly straight so the level was super helpful.

I continued to go down the wall with the stencil and then transferred to either side. You can match up the stencil on the circles to ensure that the level is straight as well as using the clip-on level. For a complete tutorial on how to stencil properly check out this video here. You can see how I matched up the stencil in the picture below.

Here is a picture of mid-stenciling. I had to go over it a few times because the black paint needed multiple coats since it's a dark color on a bright white.