Bedroom Make over-- Accent wall

A few weeks ago I was reading The Small Things Blog , pretty much my favorite blog ever!  If you're never read it I highly recommend it!  Anyways, Kate was doing a give away from the cutting edge stencils.  And I won!  $50 for whatever I wanted from cutting edge stencils.  They were great to work with too!  They sent my stencil so fast!

Recently I've been totally obsessed with the color combo of yellow and gray!  I just can't get enough of it. Since my room was already painted yellow I decided to do a gray stencil over it on just one wall.  All the walls would be too much!  Unfortunately we painted my room a really long time ago, back when I was in about 7th grade and of course I didn't know what color it was, or where the paint came from.  So I painted just one wall a fresh color of yellow (it didn't match perfect, but it's not totally noticeable now with the gray over it)

The new yellow is a bit brighter than the old yellow.  But the gray over it looks so cool.  

My advice to you, if you're going to stencil a wall with a stencil from Cutting Edge Stencils, is watch the videos before you start.  Don't just read the directions!  They make a lot more sense if you watch someone actually doing it before you try.  I found this out the hard way.  I messed up part of the wall because I didn't understand how the stencil was supposed to be overlapped.  But other than that small mistake doing the stenciling was very easy.  And it looks so cool.  

 I started in the middle of the wall so I could get a whole row of the stencil to build from.  Well that was the idea.  However it didn't work for me since I didn't know how the stencil was interlocking, but I figure it out.  :) and only had to repaint a small spot of the wall yellow again.  

The first stencil. I just taped it up to the wall and painted over it.  The directions from cutting edge give you a specific way to put the paint on the wall so you don't overload the roller and get paint up under the stencil.   

Then I got the hang of it and got a lot of the wall done.  I had to clean off the paint from the stencil a few times so that the edges didn't get real messy.  

 This is a picture after I finished the whole wall as I was laying on the floor.  I was a bit worn out after doing the whole wall.  

 Then came the hard part of moving the furniture back in place.  Thankfully my dad helped me this time.  I moved all the furniture before painting and it was HARD!

 Once I got my bed moved back in place.  The zebra blanket was not going with the wall too well so I found a gray blanket that looked better.  

I picked up a fleece blanket at target and I'm really please with the gray.  

I think that wall looks really great especially with my fancy light fixture from Ikea.  

Here's a close up of the pattern on the wall.