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Plantation Guest Room: Stenciling and Headboard The duvet cover provides a stencil design, and a headboard painted directly on the wall adds architectural interest. From "Fresh Coat" episode DFCT-207

The bedroom makeover is under way: the walls have been painted a soothing, soft green and a stencil has been rendered to mirror part of the pattern in the duvet cover – now it's time to stencil the walls.

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Materials (stencil):

Benjamin Moore Lancaster White paint
Benjamin Moore HC-25 Quincy Tan paint
stencils
stenciling brush
tape measure or level

Materials (headboard):
tape measure or level
painters tape
flat brush
Benjamin Moore HC-25 Quincy Tan paint
Benjamin Moore Lancaster White paint
pencil
angle brush

1. Stenciling will help create a custom wall treatment on the fern green walls. Before stenciling, however, the space for the painted headboard is marked off on the wall.

	Figure A
	Figure B

2. The first stencil is centered over the headboard and held in place with painter's tape. The rest of the pattern will move out across the wall from this point.

3. With a stippling brush, Lancaster White paint is pounced over the stencil pattern. The flat end of the brush is briefly dipped in paint and blotted to remove excess paint before pouncing; too much paint would bleed under the stencil (figure A).

4. With the stencil pattern still in place, an artist brush, dipped in Quincy Tan paint, is used to fill in the base side of the feathery shape. This additional color will enhance the stencil pattern.

5. As a finishing and additional decorative touch, small white circles are randomly added around the stencil pattern. The first curved stroke of the brush makes the first half of the circles; the second curving stroke makes the second half of the circles. The circles are filled in to complete the pattern (figure B).

6. The headboard is painted directly on the wall. The area is measured 47" up from the baseboard and 2" wider than each side of the mattress and taped off. The edges of the tape are sealed with Maidenhair Fern paint and painted with Quincy Tan paint (figure C).

7. When the primer is dry, Lancaster White paint is dry-brushed over the primer. Dry-brushing involves dipping just the tip of the brush into paint and brushing it vertically onto the wall. Excess paint can be brushed out with both vertical and horizontal strokes, but the final stroke should be a vertical stroke. This technique will let some of the basecoat show through the dry-brushing (figure D).

Figure C

Figure D

8. When the dry-brushing is finished, the painter's tape is pulled off at a 45-degree angle (pulling it off at an angle prevents accidentally pulling off the paint with the tape).

9. The rope detailing on the mirror edge is repeated as an edge detail along the edge of the headboard. The mirror border is measured at 1-1/2" and drawn on the headboard with a pencil. The pencil line is then covered with a small angle brush dipped in Quincy Tan paint (figure E) (figure F).

Figure E

Figure F

10. Again, using an angled brush and Quincy Tan paint, a border line is drawn along the outside of the dry-brushed panel. A horizontal, curving scooping line, repeated every 1-1/2" or so, connects the two vertical lines. The connecting lines don't have to be exact, but the final look should resemble the rope detail of the mirror (figure G) (figure H).

Figure G

Figure H