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.
Any ideas?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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@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!
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You could use a chalk line with a regular level?
http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-47-464-PowerWinder-Chalk-Piece/dp/B000KRLG0Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409622188&sr=8-1&keywords=chalk+line -
We used a chalk line!
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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.
I do, however, want to do a striped wall in the future and these ideas will help greatly!!!
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