Creating A Reading Room

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With the addition onto our home pretty much wrapped up, we are now touching up the smaller rooms in our home and giving them a new purpose.  My daughter’s old bedroom was quite small and was just sitting empty after we moved all of her things to her new bedroom.  As a room that now is more like a loft area, accessible from the old stairway and as a walkway into the newer part of our home, I couldn’t stand the lovely green color my daughter picked out a few years ago when we moved in! Oh, that green paint!  That bright, bright green paint!  She just loved it.  It seemed to me that it has almost become brighter now that her white furniture and belongings have been taken out of the room.  All that’s there is carpet and that color.  This past weekend, I smiled as I rolled 2 heavy coats of the neutral Behr Toasted Cashew colored paint over those walls.  We are now creating a Reading Room and I can’t wait to show you how it turned out! For a great paint job though, you need great supplies.  FrogTape® brand painter’s tape is one of those go-to painting supplies you don’t want to be without.  FrogTape® Multi-Surface is a medium adhesion painter’s tape designed for use on Cured Painted Walls, Wood Trim, Glass & Metal.  It will also remove cleanly from most surfaces for up to 21 days and seven days in direct sunlight!  FrogTape® Delicate Surface is a low adhesion painter’s tape designed for use on freshly painted surfaces (24 hours old), Faux Finishes, Primed Wallboard & Wallpaper.  This is my favorite!  It also will remove cleanly from most surfaces for up to 60 days. After 24 hours, the nice beige color I painted was dry and I wanted to add a little character to this reading space.  I decided to paint a large horizontal, lighter colored stripe on the wall with the window.  I thought it might open this small area up a bit. For this step I used FrogTape® Delicate Surface because this was a weekend project and the walls were freshly painted.  I also enlisted the help of my husband along with his laser level to help me measure the exact placement of the FrogTape® brand painter’s tape so the lines would be straight and even. I carefully rolled on the stripe color (Behr Parchment Paper), let it set for an hour or so until it was dry to the touch, rolled on a second coat of paint and removed the FrogTape® immediately.  I was a little nervous – Okay, REALLY nervous about this step, but the lines came out amazing!  I couldn’t even believe it!  I then let it dry for another 24 hours. I was so excited!  I had never painted stripes in a room before because I thought it would be too hard.  My husband looked at the big smile on my face and said, “Oh, boy.  Now you are going to be painting stripes all over the house!” 🙂 I am so impressed with this tape.  I am not a very experienced painter, but even I did this!  The lines were neat, crisp and didn’t bleed through thanks to FrogTape®’s patented PaintBlock® Technology. With all of the painting out of the way, it was now time to decorate.  My husband and I moved our old loveseat into the room and I began putting the finishing touches on this freshened up space! I added a simple neutral couch cover and some pillows I purchased recently.  A sturdy end table, lamp, my grandmother’s old cedar chest as a small coffee table and of course some books complete this small Reading Room.  This room is a great place for my older children to go read when it gets a little loud in other parts of our home and it’s a comfy & quiet place that I can go and just clear my mind if I need to.

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