Paint Technique: Textured Stripes

measuring tape
hard-lead pencil
long level
natural sea sponge
blue painter's tape
latex satin paint (base coat: Familiar Beige SW6093, stripe color: Moderate White SW6140, ceiling: Lightweight Beige SW6092, trim: Reliable White SW6091)

Steps:

1. Apply the base coat and let dry.
2. Go to the most inconspicuous corner of the room, perhaps behind a door or a large piece of furniture, and make tick marks every six inches along the walls (adjust as necessary in your space). Use a level and pencil to make very light, vertical lines. To help keep things orderly, put a small piece of tape in every other stripe all the way around the room to denote which stripes will remain the base coat color. Tape-off the opposite stripes just to the outside edge of the pencil lines so that when the top coat is applied, it will cover them. Tape-off the top and bottom of each stripe to be painted, too.