Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Floor Mat Part 2

Yesterday I had all of my dark beige painted. I let it dry for several hours and now I'm painting the light beige. A couple of people wanted to know what kind of paint I use. This is the beauty of this project. I use my left over wall paint. This way the floor mat will match my walls perfectly. The dark beige is the "Hopsack" on the upper part of my wall. The light beige is "Latte" that is on my ceiling. Remember yesterday when I said to paint the first coat the same color as the square next to it? You can see in this picture I painted this square dark beige, when it drys, I'll paint the square light beige.
Here's a close up. A lot of work, but so worth it. If you have ever had to go back and touch up lines, you will not mind the extra work.
Here it is done, look how sharp my lines are. I'm even a little amazed at how crisp they turned out. Yesterday while I was painting the guy doing my hall told me another trick. If you take caulking and rub a little on the seam of the tape, it keeps the paint from bleeding underneath also.
Here it is done!!!! Well, I still have to put a couple coats of NON-YELLOWING polyurethane on it, but this is the way it will look. Like I said above, the dark beige is my wall color, the light beige is the ceiling color. I'm doing black and white pictures in my hall so I thought the black stripe and the black circles would tie in with the frames.
Here's another tip, to get your circles nice. This is an easy way to do it. Take painters tape and stick it to some paper and use a hole punch and punch out a circle. The tape has to be stuck to paper first or the punch tears it up. Then just peel the tape off and stick to your project.

If anyone decides to make a mat, please let me see pictures.

12 comments:

Karla said...

It looks awesome!! I'm totally impressed! :)

~ Karla

cheryls fascinatingfinds said...

Thanks for the visit and I'm so glad you loved the cheesecakes. I added you to my blogroll and I'm comming back later to read all your blogs...I started and enjoyed them so much I want to come back to read the rest
Cheryl

Susan @ A Southern Daydreamer said...

Beautiful job! A neat ieda.... thanks for sharing photos!

Julie said...

Your floor mat looks GREAT! You must come from an awesome family...I'll bet your creativity is an inherited thing. Anyway, you have a beautiful home! Good job!!!

Wendy said...

HaHa! I must get my creativity from my Aunt Julie! You know she is really awesome!

Miss Janice said...

This looks great and you make it look so easy! Thanks for the photos and instructions...

Debbie said...

Your hallway is looking beautiful, I'm really impressed. Love the floor mat too, I might have to do one of those. Debbie

Michelle, All Home and Love said...

Wow, thanks for the step by step!! I think it looks so great, it'll be a focal point in your hallway.

AnNicole@Our Suburban Cottage said...

I'm astonished....yes, astonished, by how creative you are! Pure genius I tell ya. Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. It's so fun to actually have comments :).

Melissa Miller said...

Very cool Wendy. You are really doing well with all your home decor'.
It's gorgeous!

akawest said...

You did a wonderful job. Thanks so much for the circle idea. I will definitely be using that in a future project.

Stacey said...

This is so neat! It's the kind of project I would love to do but would be too intimidated by it.