https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 09 May 2026 10:05:18 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tips-for-painting-vertical-stripes#post-1844659 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 06:40:03 +0000 babycanuck 1844659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks everyone! I ended up using a string with a weight at the bottom. I wasn't painting an entire room with stripes, just cleaning off the ends of painting a room partway into a closet without painting the whole closet. Hubby's idea.</p> <p>I do, however, want to do a striped wall in the future and these ideas will help greatly!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tips-for-painting-vertical-stripes#post-1844656 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 06:36:18 +0000 ValentineMommy 1844656@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We used a chalk line! </p> [attach=2736/14/nb9uwi.375x500.nursery3.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tips-for-painting-vertical-stripes#post-1844488 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:43:39 +0000 PurplePumps 1844488@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You could use a chalk line with a regular level?<br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-47-464-PowerWinder-Chalk-Piece/dp/B000KRLG0Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1409622188&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=chalk+line" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-47-464-PowerWinder-Chalk-Piece/dp/B000KRLG0Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1409622188&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=chalk+line</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tips-for-painting-vertical-stripes#post-1844485 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:39:29 +0000 wonderstruck 1844485@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lioneyes: Forgot to say that in my post, but +1 to locking in the tape first with the original paint color to make sure there's no bleed! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tips-for-painting-vertical-stripes#post-1844304 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:22:13 +0000 lioneyes 1844304@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we created a template from cardboard and used that to draw on pencil lines for the stripes. then we taped almost exactly over the pencil lines (using frog tape), then locked the tape with a coat of white so there would be no bleed, then painted on the stripe. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tips-for-painting-vertical-stripes#post-1844264 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 16:05:57 +0000 Grace 1844264@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Is your house old? I tried this in LO's nursery and almost lost my mind until I realised that the old house had crooked walls. So no matter what I did, the lines never looked right. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tips-for-painting-vertical-stripes#post-1844133 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:10:13 +0000 wonderstruck 1844133@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you have a regular level that's pretty long, you could use it to pencil off the lines, just drag it down/re-level when you hit the bottom of it. But I would definitely use some sort of level. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tips-for-painting-vertical-stripes#post-1844042 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:22:16 +0000 Foodnerd81 1844042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not sure I'd trust this, but you could tie a weight to a string and hang it down--- gravity would pull it straight. I'd probably wait until I could go to the store and get a level, though, because I'd be nervous. DH would freehand it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tips-for-painting-vertical-stripes#post-1843990 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 08:42:33 +0000 babycanuck 1843990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm needing to paint a vertical stripe in one of our rooms and without a laser level, I can't figure out how to get the tape on there straight.</p> <p>Any ideas? </p>