Painted Blue Arch Mural

I painted the family room a couple of weeks ago and the white walls made SUCH a difference. I dreamed up a family room this past fall with Homes.com and mocked up this mural. I loved the idea of arches behind the couch the the round mirror set right in the middle. I wanted the arches to be within the lines of the couch so I measured a few inches in from the outer corners of the sofa and went from there! I also used a magic eraser to clean off the pencil lines I wasn’t going to follow. I used Glidden’s Quiet Night and PPG’s Flemish Blue here and the strips in the middle are a custom mixture.

I should have painted over the tape lines with my wall color to “seal” the edge and prevent bleeding. BUT… I’m using Frogtape so what I did do was to run my wet finger over the edge of the tape to ‘activate’ the frog tape and release it’s magical unicorn technology that prevents bleeding.

I mixed a few different shades of blue to see what looked right and ultimately chose the bottom sample you can see here.

Just like with the other arches, I carefully free handed the curves and then relied on the tape for the vertical straight lines. I have some new fabric coming for the swivel arm chairs and two baseboards to replace, but this room is otherwise done!