Alastair Powell

You can see we’ve made a few other changes in the room too.

Sometimes literally.It’s a little weird, but my family is mostly used to me now..

Here are some of my little rules:.I love pops of color and I always get so excited to decorate for all the different holidays.Having everything in basic grey makes the colors that I do add kind of… colory-er… you know?

So having no color in the every day stuff makes the pops of seasonal color even that much more fun and exciting for me and I don’t end up feeling overwhelmed and bored of being stuck with the same thing..Sometimes the pops of color are family members!

I don’t get bored of them though.

Even if they wear the same favorite shirt everyday for a week sometimes.. Having everything all matchy matchy now with the everyday stuff makes me feel like the room is really finished and pulled together even if I just kind of stumbled my way through this..If you’ve ever used any of the painting tapes before, you’ve probably noticed that they aren’t totally perfect.

Even if you use a high quality tape, you’ll still often end up with paint bleeding and little blips here and there just because of user error or weird humidity or something like that.After I show you this little trick in a second here, you’re going to LOVE your painting tape.

So here’s what I did for this little project:.After painting my base color (the grey) and letting it dry, I decided I wanted a total of 5 stripes, so I just needed to tape off 2 stripes that I would paint on top in the aqua color.