It is always great to work with a repeat customer – which was the case with this hand-painted polka-dot bathroom! Previously, I had painted a faux whitewashed brick wall for my client Nancy, so when she was ready to do something special in her bathroom, she gave me a call.
Nancy knew she wanted the polka dot look, but she didn’t like the idea of using wallpaper in her master bathroom. She also wanted to be able to choose whatever color she wanted – so she had the idea to have me paint the polka dots using her choice of base color!
After collaborating on the size and spacing of the dots, I was on to the planning stage. To make the spacing consistent, I made a couple of templates in advance and made a custom “stamps” for the ½” dots.
Once I was onsite and had the base color painted, it was on the plotting out the hundreds of individually painted dots. I used my templates to space them 4” apart, staggering the rows by 2”. The tricky parts were balancing the dots on the wall from top to bottom and left to right --- but also plotting the rows as they went around corners and obstacles like the vanity, mirror and toilet!
With a little bit of patience, I got it all to work for this fun bathroom finish!
Enjoy!
Jason
