My First Stab at Chevron-EH...

I LOVE chevron-it is cute and fun and I would love to have a splash of it somewhere in my home. So I decided to finally give it a shot on the top of this little table I found at a thrift store for $3.99.

I painted this little one up with some white paint on the legs and sides and sage green on the table top. Then it was time to CHEVRON!

I read some tutorials and most of them included using push pins and a lot of taping and cutting to exact measurements...ugh. Honestly, that didn't sound fun to me. Finally, I decided I thought I had a better/easier plan. I printed out two templates and decided to use the one on the left.

I cut them out, taped them to fit the width of my table top.

Now, instead of measuring and cutting tape strips, I traced the stencil onto the table.

Then I painted the strips...this is where I "thought" I would be so cool and actually paint clean and straight lines...hehe

So, then I thought I could use my Elmer's Paint Pen and outline each strip to make it look better. Well, I didn't have the black I wanted, and I wasn't going to wait until I got to the store, so I used silver...not so sure about that choice. So I distressed the whole thing and waxed it nice and shiny and just called it a day.

Eh....it's ok

I am not in love with it, but I learned a bunch and it will be functional in (and match) my daughter's bedroom. Apparently she is learning all about photographing projects for the blog!

At least SHE likes the silver

And I like the mix of painted and natural wood.

Next time, I will probably try this method one more time and see if I get any better at it...I REALLY don't want to measure and cut all that tape!