Alright y'all, I'm moving in a month and I plan on painting the lower half of my walls a deep iris-y bluish purple. I plan on painting the top half either a lighter purple or a different shade of blue. Or maybe not.

anyways, I have this flimsy old twin bed that i want to paint a fun color. It has a medium sized headboard, and I've thought about painting it stripe-y, like different shades of purple and blue.

My question is: should I bring other colors into it besides the million different shades of purple and blue? If so, should I incorporate those colors on the headboard? Or add them into the duvet cover I will make later?

Are stripes a good idea for the headboard, or should I just go with a solid color?

give me some advice, crafty ladies!

Thanks,
Susanna

I love those colors. Blues of any shade all seem to go together. And painting the headboard in coordinating stripes is a cool idea, too. If I were doing it, I'd probably used chartreuse, and maybe a touch of orange, like purple vertical stripes up to two inches wide, then blue, then chartreuse with evenly spaced tangerine daisies down the middle of the green. Then repeat.

For a twin headboard, you don't have a lot of room for very wide stripes, so paint the whole thing the lightest color, then lay stripes of the medium tone, then overlay the darkest. If there is a lot of detail in the headboard, you could airbrush the stripes over the first layer. OR sponge it on with drafting tape masking the areas you don't want painted. (Drafting tape sticks very lightly instead of masking tape which may pull up new paint.)

If you have enough paints left over, you can paint a floor canvas, or seagrass squares.

Wish I had the energy to paint. My whole house needs it and I have a friend who just bought the entire inventory of a going out of business painter. She owns a lot of rentals. So she has myriad premixed accent colors and plain whites and enamels and latex and oils, oh my.

Beth