FrogTape™ Paintover Challenge Week 2: Faux Molding and Office Progress

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Progress On My Eclectic and Bold Office Makeover

SO much progress on in my office makeover for the FrogTape® Paintover Challenge.. painted walls, decorative molding, furniture makeovers… a fun ceiling treatment… I can’t wait to show you everything I’ve done to take this space from disheveled chaos to eclectic and bold.

Frogtape Paintover Challenge progress

Disclosure: This post was sponsored by FrogTape® as part of the Paintover Challenge.

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Holy progress, Batman!!! Once I started on this space… it was hard to stop! First step was to paint my gorgeous accent wall. I chose Behr Marquis Jet Ski to best match the wallpaper I selected and I LOVE it. I used FrogTape® to help protect the window trim, baseboards, ceilings and adjacent walls.

using frogtape to protect the window trim frogtape around the window frame

Once the wall is taped off, it’s SO easy to smack down a couple coats of paint!

painting an office wall blue finished blue office wall

Best part? Peeling off the tape to reveal a perfect SHARP paint lines. Every. Time.

crisp paint line with frogtape

With the back accent wall taken care of, time to make some faux molding. We’re renting our current house, so… no *actual* molding for this girl. Thankfully, with FrogTape® delicate, I can fake it! Here’s how:

Step 1. Measure and lightly draw guidelines with pencil on walls

I started by painting the three other walls in the office with some leftover White Dove I had from painting the family room. Using a level, mark you walls lightly with pencil so that you have a guide for your FrogTape®. I made sure to sketch out the design I wanted on scrap paper first!

measure for faux molding

Step 2. Tape one side of the molding

I was able to use FrogTape® delicate to carefully tape off my “molding” even this soon after painting the wall (less than 24 hours).

Step 3. Use the width of your tape as a guide

To make it easier, use the width of your FrogTape® as a guide. I put another line of tape just inside the first line to mark the width. This line doesn’t have to be perfect… it’s simply holding the space. Finally, I put a third row of tape inside the space holder to act as the inside edge for the faux molding.

using the width of the tape to help make the pattern

Step 4. Remove the middle line of tape

Remove the middle strip of FrogTape®. The outside and inside strips of paint will act as edges to your faux molding!

finished decorative molding

Step 5. Carefully paint between the lines with a lighter color

Remember how I said I had JUST finished painting that wall? With FrogTape® delicate… no worries! I painted between the tape lines with a glossy plain white and was easily able to pull the tape away for a flawless sharp line. I LOVE how easy it was and, for a renter, it was the perfect way to achieve the look of molding!

paint between the tape lines

pulling back tape on faux molding

Other projects?

I have to mention the ceiling… I was able to hang regular wallpaper on the ceiling in a rental. How? Liquid starch. Stay tuned for a tutorial on that coming soon. Let’s just say… it’s a HUGE part of the room and I’m thrilled I was able to pull it off!

hanging wallpaper on the ceiling

putting up wallpaper in the new office

I had some storage baskets for a pair of new shelves… but they seemed awfully plain. Guess what FrogTape® sticks to? Baskets. Crisp sharp clean line? You betcha!

painted baskets with Frogtape painted baskets with Frogtape

Other things I learned FrogTape® sticks to?

Fabric:

painting fabric storage baskets painting fabric storage baskets

Cork:

painting a cork board with frogtape painting a frame on a cork board

Mirrors:

frogtape on old mirror

I can’t WAIT to show you the finished office next week! It’s beyond what I had hoped for and I LOVE how it turned out!! You won’t want to miss this one! Make sure you head back to WEEK 1 to see how the space was when I started.

sneak peek of faux molding in the office

And reminder that after the reveal, I’ll be pestering you (graciously and gently) to vote. The winner of the Paintover Challenge gets to donate $10,000 to the charity of their choice and I’m SO hopeful I can do something for my friends at the Amos House in Providence, RI.

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13 Comments

  1. I love your color choices, and the wallpaper on the ceiling is fantastic! I also like the outline you created with the two white shades, what you called molding. after all that effort i was surprised you covered it up with your painting grouping. i’m curious, If it really were molding, would you have done the same frame placement? I’m excited to see the whole reveal.

    1. I played around with artwork in the middle of the molding and it actually felt a little bare! If the molding had been real, I suspect the dimension of the trim would have felt a bit more substantial so I wouldn’t have covered it in that case! Thanks so much!!

  2. Super! Love the colors. A blogging question-you dona great job of highlighting the product. When you work witH a Brand do they give you ‘talking poInts’ to use in your sponsored posts? If not, you should be writing advertising copy for frog tape!

    1. Hi! Thanks! Nope! Sometimes with sponsored content the brand will ask to see the text before publishing, but the edits are usually to do with adding the ® symbol or something! The nice thing about producing sponsored content for brands I use/ like is that it’s VERY easy to write the posts!

  3. Wowza! That wallpaper on the CEILING looks amazing. Love the ‘moulding’ too, and your art collection ???
    Q’s for you – how quick after you paint do you remove the tape? AlSo, any frogtape tips for texture walls?

    1. Hi! And thanks!! I’m VERY impatient about removing the tape so I usually go fairly fast. I give it maybe an hour (max). 🙂 I like the paint to be dry-ish, but not totally dry if that makes any sense. Re. textured walls… I’ve never had texture, but… I used the tape on 2 types of baskets and fabric and it worked like a charm so I’d just suggest going back over the edge to make sure it’s adhered. And then, paint OVER the paint edge with the base wall color to help seal it in… then paint over with the color you’re taping off for. Do you know that trick?

  4. Wowza! That wallpaper on the CEILING looks amazing!! Love the ‘moulding’ too, and your art collection ???
    Q’s for you – how quickly after you paint do you remove the tape? AlSo, any frogtape tips for textured walls?