Special thanks to Scotch Duct Tape for sponsoring this post and for their challenge to create a project using tape from their new Colors and Patterns Line a new brand that helps you find your style that sticks–I LOVE a good challenge, wish every company would do things like this! It would have taken a lot more time to tape off all the diamonds and paint them. I’m willing to prime and paint the wall in the future –something anyone would need to do when they are done looking at the diamonds, but, the tape saved us a lot of work on the front end. Because the decorative duct tape isn’t as sticky and intense as the silver, heavy duty duct tape, when you peel it off, there isn’t any damage to the walls so far, just some discoloration–like when you remove vinyl lettering. It’s been a month since we first put the tape up. Here’s a little 3 minute video that documents most of the process. It took a few hours (but that includes a quick run to the store to get more tape) and the results were stunning. From there, we measured and marked 15 inches over and 30 inches up across the entire wall. I slapped some tape up just to get a feel for the size and yep, I liked it so I took it down and used those marks as our starting point. I was left with 4 marks on the wall that marked the points of the diamond. Then I measured down 15 inches into the center of where the diamond would be (halfway) and then 7.5 inches over to the right (mark 3) and 7.5 inches over to the left (mark 4). I figured a 30 inch tall diamond would be nice so, from the top center of the wall I made a mark on the wall (mark 1) measured down 30 inches and made a mark (mark 2). Diamonds look their best when they are twice as high as they are wide.
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