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Simple Geometry
This Old House Magazine
|June 2018
Create an abstract accent-wall design with just a roll of painter’s tape and a few quarts of color
TAPING OFF a pattern to paint on the wall can run the gamut from ultra-easy (say, big, wide stripes) to mind-boggling (honeycomb hexagons, anyone?). Here’s a design that looks complex but is a cinch to create, since it’s completely free-form and demands no measuring. The only must: keeping the tape taut and straight to make crisp rectilinear shapes.
This story is from the June 2018 edition of This Old House Magazine.
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