What's In?!? Horizontal Stripes

The WHERE- The trend i'm seeing - using Horizontal Stripes in Bathrooms, Kids Rooms and Mudrooms

The When- When the room needs a pop of something fun! It's a great way to give a room an updated look without going too modern. And when there's not a lot of pattern being used in the space.

The HOW- Please see 'Horizontal Stripes How To' in Stuff column

Boys Room

Basecoat:  Ben Moore 'Timid White' 2148-60

Stripe:  Ben Moore 'Sandy White' 2148-50

Eggshell finish

 Black and White Boys Bath

*Note- with high contrast colors, the base coat should be the lighter color

Both base coat and stripe are done with Satin Finish

When doing a high contrast color combination, make sure you
press down the tape really well!  I like to use a credit card.

Girls Playroom

Tone on Tone

With this project, the dark color is an eggshell finish and the light color is a shade lighter but in a semi gloss finish.  The difference is subtle but the difference in sheen dresses it up!

*NOTE!!! If you want to play with different sheen, always have the lighter color be the color with the most amount of sheen.

 Lighter colors should be in satin, semi gloss or gloss;
dark colors should be flat, matte, or eggshell.

On this job, the base coat was the dark salmon in eggshell finish, light color was gloss finish

Boys Bathroom

Used Ben Moore HC 146 Wedgewood Gray
with Ben Moore HC 143 Wythe Blue

Eggshell Finish

Mudroom

Basecoat
  Ben Moore 'Decorators White'

Stripe
  Farrow and Ball 'Blackened'

This house is classic traditional architecture but was decorated with a modern spin.  The Blackened gray was used thru out the house and gave this space a very fresh look.