$100 Room Challenge – Painting a Buffalo Plaid to a Wall

Welcome to Week 4….boy, how I wish it was Week 2 !! 🙂  I still have so much more I want to do in our laundry room.  Welcome back to the $100 Room Challenge.  As a reminder the $100 Room Challenge rule – spending only $100 to makeover one room in your home.

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Today I am focusing on only one wall in the laundry room.  I am going to tackle a buffalo plaid print.  I have shared how to paint a buffalo plaid pattern on a bottle and on a plate charger so this doesn’t come as a surprise I am sharing how I paint the pattern on a wall, right?

Haven’t seen the buffalo plaid bottle or plate charger blog post….what?  Here you go ⇒ DIY PAINTED BUFFALO PLAID BOTTLE  –   DIY BUFFALO CHECK CHARGER.

Here are the tools I used to paint the wall.

• ruler with a level – this is the best tool EVER!!!
• tape measure
• pencil
• paint -3 shades
• painters tape –
• foam roller
• paint brush

Let’s talk about the paint.  I have read different numbers of paint colors from two to five.  I am going to use 3 colors.  To keep the cost down I am using only two colors and making the third color myself out of the main color and wall color.

1. base color – wall background color
2. main color – darkest color – will be used on the last step
3. secondary color – 1 ½ cup of main color and 1 cup of base color

My first step was; prep the wall and move the washer and dryer.  I like to make sure all the nail holes are patched with spackle, sanded and the wall wiped down with a damp cloth.  I always paint the crown molding before painting any wall.  I painted two coats of the base color.  Green Sheen the color Putty Balm, it is real close to the Edgecomb Grey by Benjamin Moore.

To figure out how to apply the lines on the wall. I hope this doesn’t confuse you.  Let me know if you have any questions.

1. Measured the walls from corner to corner and ceiling to floor (starting at the bottom of the crown molding to the top of the base boards).  My wall is 89.3″ wide and 90.2″ tall.
2. Decided how large you want the squares.  I made 5 inch squares.
3. Find the center at the top of the wall.  Place a mark.
4. Using a ruler placing the center mark you just made on 2 ½ mark at 1 and 5.  Do this across the wall marking 5 inches from the previous mark.  I kept doing the same thing with each row dropping down 24 inches each row.
5. I connected the marks horizontally.

To tape off the lines will be a little different because we are wanting to keep the spaces 5 inches. For this step we will not be painting every row, we will be skipping every other one.  The space  to be painted tape the line out side the space into the space we aren’t painting.

It will look uneven when taped, but it will work out perfect.

I marked the area not to paint to remind me.

I used the secondary color and painted one coat onto the lines I want to paint.  The color I used is 1 1/2 cups of the Green Sheen Putty Balm and 1 cup Seattle Grey.

Removed the tape and let dry for at least 12 hours.

To make the vertical lines I measured 5 inches all the way down the wall at each corner, using my level ruler marking 5 inches every 24 inches across the wall.  Connected the lines.

Taped the same way as before.  Taped outside the lines for the painted spaces.

Painted the spaces with the secondary color, same as the previous step.  Make sure you paint the direction of the tape and not up and down.

Keep the tape on.  Let dry for at least 12 hours.

Tape off all the squares the secondary color overlap with each other.  I have seen where people tape the first set of lines, but to me that is a waist of time and tape.

Paint with the main color.  The Benjamin Moore Seattle Gray (same as the cabinets, remember I went two tints lower on the color chart).

Remove the tape.

I know this isn’t the typical colors for buffalo plaid, but I wanted to show you how to paint the plaid on your wall.  For me I am going to add a few things.

You will have to come back next week and see how this all folds together.  🙂

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WEEK 4 EXPENSES:

• wall paint – thrift store purchase $16
• 4 rolls of painters tape purchased at Dollar Tree $4.36

Total expense for Week 4 = $20.36

Let’s take a look at the budget.  $100 allowed

• Paint for cabinets – $36.72
• Primer, sandpaper and brushes already had – $0
• sponge roller – I purchased a package of 2 rollers = $5.44
• 1 gallon of paint for laundry room walls – $16.00 (no tax charge at Thrift store)
• Stain, paint and primer for bench already had – $0
• Bench purchased at Thrift store – $5.00 (no tax charge)
• Painter’s tape – $4.36

Total spent so far = $67.52

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