not your grandmother's stencil!

i have been needing to change

the accent wall

in my living room for quite some time. 

(before)

the squares served their purpose

for almost 9 years

but it was time to go. 

geoff had a day off work,

(always dangerous for him.

i'm sure he regrets about 95% of his days off...

ha ha)

so i pleaded for him to slap up my new wall. 

i have been smitten with wall stencils

for quite some time,

so i just had to pick one. 

now this is a normal person's stencil tools.

and this is my husband's.

oh boy. 

i didn't want it to look "stencily" and washed out,

so to ensure it had crisp lines,

he decided to bust out the industrial sprayer. 

this was not the 3-hour project

i antipicated

(and/or promised him) it would be.

once mr. wonderful figured out a system,

it went pretty smoothly.

oh la la!

and i couldn't be more thrilled

with how it turned out.

it looks like expensive wallpaper

but with the added bonus

of me being able

to chose colors that coordinated

with the other three walls of my living room.

and now onto the next project. ;)