Comments on: Undoing A DIY: How To Repaint A Striped Wall

By: ALI TAYLOR

ALI TAYLOR — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:46:35 +0000

I am dealing with this right now, sanding away my chevron striped walls! As much as I love stripes, I don’t think I will EVER do one again! LOL

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 26 May 2017 15:05:09 +0000

I’m so glad I found this. I will be trying this out today. I have been sanding and painting a striped room for the past 2 days and I just can’t get it to the point where I can’t see the line on the wall. I will try your technique. I think there is a fine line between sanding just enough and hoping to cover the line and sanding too much and wearing down the texture. If this doesn’t work for my wall I am resorting to a can of spray texture and going to town on my wall. And after that, I have another room to tackle as well. Uggg.

By: Jesse James

Jesse James — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:10:37 +0000

Ummmm, this is amazing and your blog is a delight to read. And I just took the bestie quiz and ACED it. Now to decide whether or not to do stripes considering the take down proceege…

By: Karah @ thespacebetweenblog

Karah @ thespacebetweenblog — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:44:58 +0000

Great info! Found you through RHBC…so happy to have found you. Thanks for the painting tips. 🙂
Karah @ thespacebetweenblog

By: ARod

ARod — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:16:11 +0000

looks great

By: beccalouise

beccalouise — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:33:30 +0000

In reply to cold cocoa. each layer of paint has a thickness. the stripes are probably at least two layers of paint. so if you just painted over the stripes, you would still see the thickness of the stripes, it would look like a line in the wall at the border of each stripe.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:30:49 +0000

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By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:09:47 +0000

Thanks bunches for the tricks! I just bought some ‘eggshell’ sheen (not color) paint. Just a bit shinier than flat, but nothing like semi-gloss and I noticed that it really hid all the imperfections in the walls! I was sooo jazzed to see I guessed right!

By: tricia @ mash-up chic

tricia @ mash-up chic — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:05:11 +0000

how’d you get so brilliant? As somoene who is about to paint stripes in a bedroom, this makes me less afraid!
Trish
http://www.mash-upchic.blogspot.com

By: * Nancy *

* Nancy * — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:17:09 +0000

GREAT tips, Mandi!!! Definitely will be needing this post in the near future!