Who says drawing on the walls is only for children? Create a geometric feature wall using a permanent marker!
It’s a dangerous thing for me to be at home, alone and bored. My partner, and our poor plants, have learnt that the hard way over the years. Thankfully, the days of me trying to spray paint out of a window are long gone, though he still knows what I’m like, and when I was home one Saturday because my plans had fallen through, I decided to take on this blank wall in our hallway.
We’re saving all the pennies we can at the moment for our wedding so some of the larger projects I have in mind are on the back burner, and I wanted to use materials that I already had. I’d seen one of Dainty Dress Diaries videos relatively recently where she had used a sharpie to create a faux panelled effect, and so inspired by this, I decided to use a permanent marker to add a minimal geometric pattern to this wall.
My partner was a bit freaked out when I told him I was drawing on the walls, but by the time he came home he saw the vision, and he now loves how it turned out. This cost absolutely nothing, and all I used was a ruler, straight edge and permanent marker. I did make a few mistakes, which I just covered up with some white wall paint we already had, but generally this was quick and easy. Keep reading to find out what I used and for the step by step tutorial…
Sharpie or Tombow Monotwin Pen
Ruler
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First of all, I used a ruler to find the centre of my wall. I then grabbed a piece of leftover 10cm wide MDF that I had, and aligned the middle of this to the middle of the wall. I then drew lines either side with a pencil, and then used this as a marker to create lines up the wall that were 10cm apart.
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Next, I grabbed a ruler and marker 10cm intervals up each of the lines. I then used my ruler to join this markings in way that created a chevron pattern up each of the lines.
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When I was happy with the design, I went over the lines with my permanent marker and ruler. Once I was sure the marker was completely dry, I used a rubber and wet wipes to remove the pencil markings.
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Using the same paint that had been used on the walls before, I patched up any mistakes I made .
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Finally, I placed one of our DIY wedding invites into the photo frame that was already on this wall, hung it back up and popped a dish here for our keys, a little basket for face masks and a candle.
