White Plank Wall

Well after only a week of painting

every night

 the plank wall is now painted a nice off white

I don't know if I ever shared a before

but here it is

there was absolutely nothing wrong with the room

it just didn't have a very open, airy, relaxing feel to it

I didn't say "ahhhh" when I walked into the room

it was more of an "mehhhh"

This is where we were after 5 hours of putting up the

plank wall using toe board from the Restore

for $28 total!

And here it is now

Yes I know we still need to put the vent back up top

and add some corner trim

(which I found for free yesterday - score!)

but I'm already in love

At first I thought I was going to have to paint the

entire wall with a paint brush, but the roller worked fine

(thank goodness)

So the majority of the wall was pretty easy to paint

but I still had to get between each board

and to do that I used this brush borrowed from

the girls' craft supply

It only took about 3 hours total to do that part

which I split over two nights so I didn't pull my hair out

Here's one more shot of the end result

It adds so much character to the room

Now we only need to get a grown up bed

some decorations

new/used lamps and new/used end tables

hopefully we will be able to slowly accumulate those!

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http://www.remodelaholic.com/2011/05/remodelaholics-anonymous-72.html

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