Now I have to say, My husband “S” did a fantastic job of decorating our baby girl’s nursery and it’s now looking fabulous for when she arrives.
There is one product that we really couldn’t have done without for this project – Frog Tape
Frog Tape is absolutely wonderful if you’re fussy like me and want an intricate pattern with very specific colours. In fact we used the Dulux mixing range to get the perfect shade to coordinate with our Vetbaudet tree sticker (sad I know!).
Now Frogtape has a funny gel in it – a bit like silica gel that solidifies when it comes into contact with water, or paint. Of course the amount in the tape is miniscule (after all it just looks like green masking tape) but it performs a very important function. It stops the bloody awful bleeding through that you get with ordinary tape, and it’s easier to get off too – partially because it’s easy to spot with it being pea green!
It’s about £7 a roll but one roll was enough for us to do a whole wall… I think we bought ours from B and Q.
However, we should have known not to let the paint dry for a few days and then do a second coat with the tape still on – there was some slight bleeding at the edges as the gel had obviously already been activated with the first coat. Next time we will have to remember to paint it on as thickly as possible and to be impatient. The we can always touch it up later, instead of sending the hubby round with an eyeshadow brush with white paint on it!
Jennie x
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