Finished wall project, using paint and painters tape
A Lake Highlands interior design enthusiast — though not a professional, she says — shows us her dining room wall before and after a tape and paint project.
The makers of a painters tape called Frog Tape recently held a nationwide contest to discover the finest, most-interesting and impressive use of their product, and one Lake Highlands resident made the final cut.
Alexandra Tuel turned a blank canvas, her dining room wall, into a dazzling mural of geometrical patterns.
The effort was part of a larger redesign, she says. The dining room remained unfinished business in an otherwise-complete lengthy and painful remodeling project.
“I poured over inspiration with all different colors, wallpapers and patterns. Nothing felt right. I would actually sit down on a pillow in the middle of the room, just staring at the walls, much to my Husband’s confusion, hoping they’d tell me how they wanted to be painted,” Tuel says.
Alexandra Tuel’s ho-hum wall before the project
“Suddenly a tiny print I purchased for my office hit me hard. It was a Mondrian style print with colors that mirrored other walls around my home, which meant already purchased paint sitting in my garage. I drew up the plans and started taping. My husband was a good sport but was nervous. I had originally planned on filling in the lines with gold tape so I didn’t really pay much attention to how I laid down the Frog Tape — translation is, I wasn’t careful on smoothing things down at all. That night as I started peeling off the tape, I was not only amazed by the colors, but I was blown away by how clean the lines looked.”
Finalists in the contest go to a popular online vote — here is where you can vote for our neighbor — and the winner receives $5,000. Voting ends Aug. 3.
We hope to see the rest of the Tuel’s gutted and revamped home sometime before our spring home design issue.
