Stripes

Stripes are one of the easiest ways to give your room a little pizzaz. Such an impact can be made with this design. One way to do it is to go half way up the wall, with an actual wooden chair rail, or a painted chair rail as shown in the pink and brown nursery and the butter yellow and white bathroom above, to separate the stripes from the solid color on top. The painted border can be done to match your bedding or other design elements, giving a very customized look.

Bold stripes are great in kids rooms, such as these examples. The Cardinal Red/Gold/Tan stripes are part of a USC themed room, and the Hot Pink/Black/White stripes tie into the Zebra bedding in this little girls room. The Zebra border was hand painted to tie it all together.

In a nursery, as shown in the Princess themed room and the Blue/Black room above, stripes are a good way to bring in color and leaves you with options down the road, when the crib moves out and a twin bed moves in. In either of these rooms, the crib can be replaced with a twin under the mural or monogram.

In this case, we painted a wave design above the existing chair rail, and added stripes to correspond to the waves in this Surf Shack themed room. It's so easy to dress up a room, and it doesn't always call for doing a huge, involved mural. Stripes can do the trick!