the BIG wall.

So, here's the thing. My sister just got a new house. She wanted to do something fun and a little different on a particular wall... I thought, 'that's cool. what do you want to do?' Jen asked if I had any ideas... of course I had ideas. I always have ideas. One day, I will come to the realisation that my ideas usually end up being a lot of work for me and cause a heck of a lot of hurtles to overcome in the process.
Anyway, I came up with a design. A checker board kind of pattern using the colours she was painting on the main floor, but also introducing the colours that will be upstairs (did I mention that the wall I was doing was a 84in. x 139in. landing on the staircase?!?!)
Hurtle 1. How the heck do you get straight lines, even if you are using tape to grid the wall and a level while up a ladder 139in. ?!?











Hurtle 2. How do you transfer a huge ladder from Burlington to Oakville on a brand new Cobalt?!
Hurtle 3. Even once you have the lines up, how do you draw the awesome circle patterns you designed in the upper squares of the wall when your ladder doesn't reach quite that high because the base is to large for the stairs?!








There were so many other things that went wrong, or were just dumb mistakes (like when I miscounted the row on my design and drew a circle in the wrong place and had to re plan the entire wall...), but all in all, the wall is looking pretty great so far and I'll be excited to pull the tape off in a few days and see it complete.








A lot of things also went really great. Like having a great little apprentice willing to help roll the colours and move the job along. Thanks Erin, for all the great work! Couldn't have gotten that far without you!

Creating this wall, reminded me of swim team in highschool where our coach use to tall us to keep pushing and you'll get over that wall... except this time the wall wasn't moving. But now, seeing it almost done, I understand what he meant and I just hope that Jen and Bog will like the final product.