Studio Apartment Makeover: Geometric Painted Wall Treatment

It will come as no surprise that I love to help friends with their decorative challenges. So when Kate asked if I wanted to help decorate her studio apartment, I jumped at the chance.  She already had a great space with gorgeous light and lots of potential. She just needed a few suggestions to get her pad as fabulous as she is!




Her apartment is an alcove studio with 440 feet of space so layout was super important. I loved the white walls but knew it needed something on the far wall to add some visual interest without taking up any precious floor space.  Since it was a rental we ruled out wallpaper or molding treatments which left us with the great equalizer: paint. After batting around several different options, Kate decided a geometric stripe felt most like what she had in mind.  

Then came color selection. There were so many ways we could have gone but in the ened we opted for Valspar's Northern Juniper (a blueish green with just a tad of grey thrown in) and Blindfold (and almost but not quite black grey).



I headed over to her apartment armed with Vaslpar Signature paint, lots of frog tape, a laser level and a bit of patience. I knew this was going to take a lot of prep.  Kate and I got to work early in the morning and we spent the entire day on this.  It's definitely a 2 person job and you will be sore when you are done but it was so worth it.




I had drawn out a rough sketch of a plan to start and then using the laser level and the frog tape, we painstakingly taped out stripe.  Carefully marking the areas we didn't wan't to paint over with more frog tape (one slip up there and we would have ruined the whole look!).  Once we were happy with the stripes, it was time to get to painting.


I knew this was going to be a lot easier if we got that tape off while the paint was still dry so we did a bit of a mad dash to get it all on there as fast as possible.  Two coats per stripe worked well for great solid coverage.  It was time for a little prayer to the paint gods before pulling off the tape and seeing the end result.





Thankfully, only a few little touch ups were required! The result was the perfect bold, mod inspired pattern we were going for.  It set the perfect backdrop for the whole apartment layout that I'll share with you in my next post.  Stay tuned.

Materials Used:
Valspar Signature Flat Interior Paint in Northern Juniper
Valspar Sigature Flat Interior Paint in Blindfold
FrogTape 1.88-in Painter's Tape
Bosch 30-ft Red Beam Self-Leveling Cross-Line Laser Chalkline Laser Level with Plumb Points


Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Lowe's but all opinions expressed are my own.