If I had a give you a list of my top dislikes it would include the following: bananas {ick}, scratchy sheets on my bed, paper cuts and blank walls. Yes, you heard me right. I hate blank walls. As someone who grew up in a house of colors, photos and craziness, there’s nothing that annoys me more than big empty walls.
That’s why, when we first moved into our home last July, I was immediately filled with angst when we found ourselves with a giant, empty wall. A wall that was originally graced with a faux fireplace and giant alter {not quite my style} but now was drywalled and painted perfectly white.
For the past seven months I have hated looking at that empty wall. And I look at it many many times a day {and night, that’s what happens when you have babies}.
But at the same time, I haven’t been able to commit myself to anything for the wall. Did I mention it is gigantically, overwhelmingly huge?!
No photograph would do it justice. No piece of art seemed to fit the bill. And so I decided, I was going to have to make something myself to satisfy this gargantuan.
And so I did.
Let me walk you through the steps.
Step One: Perpetrator Niki enters Home Depot on four separate occasions in order to take every known paint chip made by Behr. {There may or may not be a wanted ad with my face on it}.
Step Two: Perp Niki purchases 24 18 by 24 canvases
Step Three: Perp Niki lays out Behr paint chips, weeding out some of the more “sad” or “dull” colors to create a rainbow/ombre effect. Specifically I used Behr 100 – 600 A, B and C in color order.
Step Four: Paint chips are laid out on canvases and glued accordingly with a spray adhesive
Step Five: Canvases are laid out on the floor and viewed from multiple angles until the arrangement is satisfying.
Step Six: Canvases are attached to giant eyesore of a blank wall. Artist is satisfied. Giant sigh of relief.
xoxo,
Niki
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A better idea than ripping off the paint store’s chips is to have someone with a wide format printer print out 24″ or 48″ wide sheets of Pantone colors. The colors can be in any shape desired. The cost will be about $7 to $15 per square foot. A more expensive outlet will be Kinko’s (now UPS Store) so seek out the independent art printer.
a very cool idea!
I linked to your tutorial on my blog – thanks for sharing!
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this may in fact, be the BEST IDEA EVER.
breathtaking!
I love this! Best idea ever, I showed my cousins and we all agreed we have to do it!(:
Love this! How did you attach all the paint chips to the canvas?
LOVE IT ! LOVE IT ! LOVE IT!
It is beautiful, like a waterfall of color. Great job and great inspiration. I do am on the wanted list, it has been a long time since I got the glare of the paint lady.
What a great project! I’m totally with you on hating empty walls, although thankfully I don’t have a wall nearly that large to fill! Wonderful job, and thanks for linking up with the Winter Pinterest Challenge!
Erin
Hooooooly moly. Gorgeous. Well done.
By far my FAVORITE paint chip project to date. (…and there are only 7,433,946 of them on Pinterest.) LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!
This is AMAZING! You should be very proud! I can imagine my self walking past the wall just to gaze and admire my work! (if it were mine)
this is so amazing! i am almost most impressed about how well it’s hung. That would be the hardest part! haha.
PS: THANK YOU SO MUCH for the shout out in a past post about the make- up brushes. Loving the round vase you used. xo
AWESOME!!!
Heavens! What a wonderful wall! P
oh.em.gee!!! amazing AmAzInG AMAZING!!!