Painting a block patterned wall



The Post-its worked great to keep the colors straight

I designed this baby nursery a couple years ago, before we had our daughter. We chose not to find out the sex of our baby, but I knew that I wanted a colorful stimulating space.  We painted the whole room yellow first.  My father-in-law and husband did most of the painting.


Then I incorporated several colors by tying them together on a focal wall in a square grid pattern.  Next I painted a chair rail height block of green, blue and pink on each of the other walls.  Now I know some may think, what, there is pink in a gender neutral nursery?!  But my husband suggested it after I was initially thinking of using peach. 

It wasn't that hard to paint either, just a lot of measuring and leveling.  The squares don't have to be exactly square to get the look.  The spacing for the edging was the width of the painting tape.  I also made a template in the paint program on my computer to see how the colors would look all together and make adjustments before actually painting. 
 

This pink was too light so we ended up redoing it