Study refresh: Geometric wall

I have probably discussed this before, but I’m a big advocate of moving and changing things in the house to fit our lifestyle. After inheriting a new larger kitchen table, the boys’ easel and play kitchen was a tight fight in our dining area and I kept trying to figure out where to move everything. After five years of our study being mainly closed off I decided it was time for a change….

The first thing we did was move out J’s changing table from his room (and sent it back to my parents):

And then took out this bookcase from the study:

And moved it into J’s room:

Then we spent a good amount of time re-organizing and cleaning up the study and re-arranging desks. After all of that I decided that the study wall of the boys’ items looked really bare. So my first idea was to create some pattern and dimension without having to paint the whole room. I came across this blog post  and was immediately inspired. I headed to Sherwin Williams and picked up two flat paint samples in frosty white and aloof gray (a lighter and slightly darker gray), and then got to work taping the wall:

You can really do it however you want, my goal was to make sure that all the shapes completed were triangles.

Then I went around and painted various triangles with the frosty white:

And then went through and painted other triangles with the aloof gray:

As you can see I am not painting the whole wall. You could do that if you wanted a higher impact, but I wanted the results to be more subtle and blend in with the rest of the space. The main thing to remember is that when you take the tape off you want the unpainted triangles to still be triangles (you don’t want a weird floating polygon in the middle).

While it looks really dramatic, the results are very subtle:

See? It’s amazing because when the light isn’t hitting it, sometimes you don’t even notice that it is there. Then you just see a pop of the colors! And once everything is back in place and set-up:

It makes a great back-drop to define their space in the room. We are getting a carpet for the room, and I’m mulling options for a little kid table for the boys, and some floor cushions. I’ll be sure to share the finished project!