How to change your wall color without painting your walls (perfect for renters)

Since we seem to exist perpetually renting here in ATL until our business firm in Florida sells (which seems more and more like information technology'due south never going to happen), I know a matter or 2 about renters rules. Some places are cool with tenants painting the walls and some aren't. And if you happen to fall in the latter category, you typically don't take many options when information technology comes to revamping those drab renters walls.

So, today I've partnered with Valspar to share how you can modify your wall color without actually painting your walls. It's a great renter-friendly option that yous can take with you from place to place and y'all won't have to paint over it when yous move out. Win-win!

What is the magically renter-friendly pick?! A (manus stretched) behemothic painted canvas. I'chiliad taking yous back to my college art school days for this ane to show you how to stretch a large (5 ft) sail by hand, that will act as a 'wall' of color you can have with y'all with every move. It'south not hard, I promise, and can make a big statement in an otherwise average infinite.

Before tackling the canvas DIY, permit'due south talk paint and materials…

Existence that today is Earth Twenty-four hours and our planet is on pinnacle of mind at the moment, this is the perfect project to be sharing considering it'due south reusable again and again. AND Valspar'due south complete line of Zero-VOC paint (which I used for this DIY) means no harmful chemicals impacting the indoor air quality when I'chiliad painting, which is patently pretty of import to me and the rest of the P&S team. No strong pigment fumes and no harmful chemicals.Each product has earned GREENGUARD Gilt Certification, which means that it meets rigorous indoor make clean air standards, while maintaining the highest standards for durability, performance, and color consistency.

Here are the Cypher-VOC paints and other materials I used to complete this projection…

Materials:

• raw unstretched sail (large enough to cover sail and wrap effectually to the dorsum – encounter step 2 in instructions for more info)
• four 64 inch stretcher bars (or whatever size you'd like to use for your canvas)
• manual staple gun (and staples)
• mallet
• scissors
• paint brush or roller
• interior paint*

*I used flat stop Valspar Reserve Zero-VOC paint (my fave because it's pigment and primer in ane) in the following colors: Coral Reef 2004-4A // Dancing Mist 5005-7A // Iris Moon 4004-9C.

Instructions:

1. Start by connecting the stretcher bars to one some other to form a foursquare (or rectangle, depending on the stretcher bar lengths). You may need to utilise a rubber mallet to secure stubborn bars together, as shown in the photo. If you're not familiar with how stretcher bars work, in that location is a notch on both ends of each bar that allows information technology to fit into the side by side. Super easy.

2. Side by side, lay your sail downwards on the flooring and place your assembled stretcher confined frame centered on top, making sure that the beveled edge side is facing downward, touching the canvas.

Note about canvas size: Brand sure your canvas is at to the lowest degree 3-four inches larger than your finished stretcher bar frame on all sides. Example: My finished frame is 64 inches foursquare and my raw canvas is 72 inches square, giving me four inches extra on each side.

3. At present, starting on any side, pull the excess sail over the back of the stretcher bar and use the staple gun to identify 2 staples an inch apart in the middle.

4. Then on the side directly across from the side you just stapled, pull the canvas every bit tightly every bit perchance with your hands (yous can use canvas pliers instead if you prefer), and so staple 2 staples an inch apart in the center.

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 with the remains two sides that take all the same to be stapled.

6. Adjacent, echo pace 3-5 for the remainder of the canvas working your way out from the middle to the sides and end roughly ii inches from each corner. Exist sure to continue pulling the sheet every bit tightly as possible before stapling and switching back and forth with sides beyond from one another as you staple.

7. Once you lot've stapled all the fashion effectually the canvas, minus the concluding 2 inches on the corners, it's time to make the corners look nice. Start by pulling the canvas at the corner to create a fold, as prove in the photograph, that comes out from the corner. Staple information technology down.

eight. Then, pull the actress piece that'due south still loose over the folded stapled piece, as shown in the photo, and staple down.

ix. Repeat this procedure of steps seven-8 with the remaining 3 corners.

10. Then cut off excess canvas all the way effectually (if applicable -cutting excess is optional) and flip the canvas over.

eleven. Paint sheet and sides with a roller or paint castor (if you're using pigment and primer in one like I did y'all won't need to to gesso / prime your sheet beforehand). Wait for the paint to dry. Employ a 2d coat if necessary. Look for the pigment to dry. And it'southward ready to hang OR rest against a wall if information technology'south too big to hang.

Non sure you desire a giant canvass? You tin just as easily practise this on a smaller scale and treat it almost similar a slice of art, hung on the wall.

Step photographs by Amelia Tatnall
Styled photos past Brittni Mehlhoff

What practise you lot think of this idea? Have you always stretched canvas before?

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