Study Update on Painting

For the Study I wanted to do something a little different with the painting. So instead of taping the moulding, I taped the wall leaving a border of white above the moulding. My dad experimented with this in the guestroom and it tricks the eye into thinking the baseboard moulding is a bit bigger than it really is! So I took it one step further. I did the baseboard, around the window and all the doors too!

I then took a wider tape and went around the wall to give a slightly larger gap between the wall and the ceiling. I was hoping it would give the room to feel of not just bigger moulding but maybe a crown as well. (The sloppy grey paint shown on the walls is from my testing)

I used Frog Tape and I have to rave about it! Blue tape was always great, but the Frog Tape went on faster and stuck better leaving a much crisper line with less touch-ups. In this room, that was key since we were doing a trickier set-up.

Here's my Mum helping paint the Study :-) You can't see the 'wider moulding' because the frog tape is still on the walls.

Here you can see the painted wall with the stripe at the top and bottom of the wall.

The baseboard absolutely looks bigger, and from this angle the white around the ceiling makes a statement :-) I love the way it turned out and the color is warm & cozy without making the room seem tiny. It almost makes the room seem larger!

I'm still re-arranging furniture and fussing but I will be sure to share photos once it's closer to being done!