The Chevron Success

So, some of you know that a very good friend of mine is also having a little one coming this October! She is having a little princess who we like to kid will be soul mates with mine and Travis' little man. Don't worry, it's all in good fun, there's no arranged marriage about to happen or anything. However, we would not be opposed to the match!

Anyway, I digress... recently, she allowed my husband and I the honor of playing a very small part in helping her with her nursery! A truly small part... we simply taped for their chevron design. Still, it is an accomplishment I remain proud of. Chevron, if for whatever reason you don't know, is an inexplicable trend that has popped up in recent times. For some reason, this is especially true when it comes to nurseries. If you look online, there are tutorials everywhere on the best ways to pull off chevron. I really just went for it. No, I have no magic formula for it... I pretty much wung it and somehow pulled it off! I'm sure there are MUCH easier ways to do it that would have helped but once I found my groove, it wasn't that difficult.

Here's how it began. I had my cheats (a.k.a. the straight line of the wall).

 The biggest challenge doing this pattern was the fact that it wasn't the whole wall... so I couldn't just divide full measurements up and down. I could only do that vertically and then everything horozontally was a mixture of measuring, marking and eye-balling.

Again, once I kind of found a groove... I was on a roll.

If you want to know how NOT an expert I am... just figuring out a system took me an hour. Hey, it was my first time :) Hoping to have many more DIY projects in the future, but we enjoyed this as a start.

My strategy was fairly simple... start with a straight line eye-balled off the edge of the wall... then from there I had 2 points of measurement I would mark from the floor up every 12" from the first line... I'm not sure I explained that very clearly. Each bottom point of the chevron is a certain height from the floor... along a horizontal line from the first piece of tape at the edge of the wall (each point is every 11" apart). I laid down the vertical strips first... marked the heights of each point along those strips, then lined up each diagonal strip to those points from there.

Like I said... once I had a system (and all the measurements) down... it was smooth sailing from there!

Having this guys help was definitely a HUGE plus!

The finished tape job just felt so good.

Then this... the moment of victory!

I know, I know! I am pregnant! I never said I was going to paint tho! No, the only thing you would have heard from me is that we taped. Like I said, our part was very small... this was a team effort! Here is our painting star....

The painting star.

Then nothing beats the finished product and that glorious feeling of SUCCESS! So cute! And so long mama is happy I am happy! I'm pretty sure she loves it! 

Then... sweet victory!

One of the best parts of having kids is how much everyone else loves your kid even before they are born! I know this little girl is already so loved! We can't wait to meet her and watch her grow up! Loved being a part of this project so much. Can't wait to see the complete finished product for sure, her nursery is going to be so cute... and thats true especially since her mama has such good taste!

Maybe one day soon... we will have some adventure stories from little Ren's nursery.