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After you complete a project and you look at it and say, “Hello, lover,” you know it’s good.
For example, “Hello, lover” doesn’t exactly fit with removing popcorn ceilings or ripping out tile. But it does fit perfectly for closet doors…when they look like these…
Hello, lover…
You just said it, didn’t you? I knew you would. They are totally Carrie Bradshaw / Sex and the City worthy.
So these doors are the closet doors in my office at the 70’s Landing Pad. Yes, I said this is the 70’s Landing Pad and yes, there is a rug on the floor and a semi-styled bar cart. This is the one room that, sans furniture (besides a bar cart turned craft cart and rug), is finished.
Did you just feel me across the world jumping up and down with glee? Because I did.
While most of this room is all white because I’ll be using it quite a bit for photos and white backgrounds never fail me for those, I needed something to be a wow factor in here – enter flat front closet doors.
You could practically feel the sadness radiating from them. So I fixed that.
DIY Painted and Patterned Doors
Materials Needed:
- FrogTape® Delicate Surface 1″ tape (I had freshly painted doors, so I used delicate surface, if you don’t have freshly painted doors, you can use the regular FrogTape®.)
- Black Paint or another color of your choice – this is my favorite shade of black. You can easily get by with a quart for this project or maybe even just a sample pot or two depending on the size of your doors.
- Paint Roller
- Paint Brush
- Ruler or Measuring Tape
- Craft Knife
Step 1
Run FrogTape® all along the edges of each door.
Since this is a set of sliding closet doors, part of the door on the back is behind the front door. I just acted like that part didn’t even exist and ran the FrogTape on that door right along where the front door met the back door as shown in the photo below.
Step 2
Find the center of each door and run a piece of FrogTape® right down the center.
Step 3
On the center piece of tape, come down 8″ and mark with a pencil. From the 8″ mark, come down 11.5″ and mark with a pencil.
On the outer pieces of FrogTape, come down 14″ and mark with a pencil.
Run pieces of tape diagonally as shown in the image above to make a diamond. As long as your diagonal pieces are meeting on the marks you made, they should be even.
With the second door, the one that is slightly behind the front door, since the length of the doors didn’t change any with the measurements, only the width, I still made my vertical 8″, 11.5″ and 14″ marks. The tape strips that make up the diamonds, the 11.5″ strips, will only be slightly shorter, but you shouldn’t have to actually measure those as long as you meet up the strips on your vertical marks.
Step 4
Use a craft knife and ruler or other straight edge to remove the excess tape as shown on the right door below.
Your doors will look like this when you are finished removing the excess tape:
Step 5
Firmly press along all edges of the FrogTape® to seal the tape against paint bleed.
Step 6
Paint over the doors with a small paint roller.
I used a small paintbrush to paint around the handles.
Step 7
Remove the FrogTape® immediately after you paint the last coat. Do not wait for it to dry.
Step back, and in your best Carrie Bradshaw voice say, “Hello, lover.”
Well done, my friend, well done.
By far, these babies are one of my most favorite painted pattern projects. P.S. I also seem to like alliteration.
What do you think?
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Disclosure: This post was a collaboration with FrogTape®. However, all opinions and mentions of Sex and the City quotes are 100% mine.
They look fabulous!
Thanks, Whitney!!
Tres chic my friend! OMG they look great and who would think of such creativity but you! =)
Ooooo, I like the ‘tres chic’ description! Thanks!
Now isn’t that just the cat’s meow?!? Awesome!
Oooo, the cat’s meow – another fantastic description! Thanks, Pam!
Love the doors, Jenna!
Thanks so much, Debbie!
Great job Jenna! Bet it was so much fun peeling the tape back! Love the flooring as well & the trolley & ice bucket. In fact everything in the photo.
It was!! I always get giddy like a schoolgirl when I go to peel that tape off – I’m such a dork! Haha! Ya know, this room and one other in the new house are the only ones that had hardwood. What you don’t see in this room, because it’s covered by the rug, is that part of the finish has worn off. I was going to have it all refinished, but I decided that since I was putting a rug down, there wasn’t too much sense it right now when there are so many other things that need to be tackled at the house first. I like the color of the floors anyway! And that trolley – only $15 at a thrift store!!!
WOW! Those are some sexy doors. I’m not sure if I want them to hit on me, or if just want to stand in front of them doing my best catcalling/Humphrey Bogart impression/”how you doin” Joey line from Friends.
Either way there is going to be a lot of winking, and I’m definitely not above showing them a little ankle. 🙂
Girl, totally just spit out my cheap beer at your comment! hahahahahaha!!!! Thanks! *wink*wink*
Jenna; I love your Idea with the doors!!! I have sliding doors in my bedroom,they are just wood doors with no pizzazz!!! I am going to use the frog tape( I love frogs) and do what you suggested but I have a different pattern I like. Thank you for a great idea!!!
Thanks, Joyce!! You could do a million different kinds of patterns with doors like these and FrogTape! Endless possibilities! I bet your doors will be amazing!
Oh man, oh man, do I love those doors. As usual your tutorial was spot on, and now I feel that I will get off my butt and go paint, seriously those doors are so gorgeous I’m trying to figure out which doors I can paint like this and not give my too conservative husband a heart attack! Keep it up girl I might just whip this house into something I want to live in the rest of my life, haha!!
Paint all the doors, Patty!! hahahaha!!! Not really, we don’t want your hubby to end up in the hospital!
Those doors are beyootiful!!
Thank you, Sally!!! I think so too, but of course, I’m partial!
WOW!! So simple, yet soooo effective. A big thanks.
It was really simple, Nancy! The hardest part was the measuring and it really wasn’t that bad at all!
Totally in lust with those doors!!! I’m heading off to my daughter’s tomorrow for 6 weeks…she bought her first home last July and I haven’t seen it yet…I’m hoping I can do something like this at her house!1 It’s just her first…she should trust mom, right??? However, I have a question for ya…since you are ignoring the overlap in the door (good choice, BTW) did that have any affect on the angle of the diamonds? Those need to have the same angles to look right (and yours look marvelous, darling), so how did you account for the different widths of the doors?
She should totally trust you, Susan! 😉 Good question – so since the length of the doors didn’t change any with the measurements, only the width, I still made my vertical 8″, 11.5″ and 14″ marks. The tape strips that make up the diamonds, the 11.5″ strips, will only be slightly shorter, but you shouldn’t have to actually measure them as long as you meet up the strips on your vertical marks. Does that make sense? Sorry, I neglected to include that in the post. I’ll go back and update it. 🙂
Awesome, I have those exact same closet doors in our 60s ranch, I painted them all white also, and have been racking my brain trying to decide how to jazz them up a little, should I stencil or find decals then it hit me yesterday to make my own pattern with masking tape also, my idea is to use a pale shade of gray for the lines and try to make them look like french doors, I don’t want anything too bold my decor is more french country/cottage, wish me luck 😉 Love reading your posts and all your ideas:-)
Awesome, Susan!! The possibilities are endless with tape and paint, aren’t they? I bet your doors will be gorgeous!
OK this is awesome!! LOVE it! Thanks so much for sharing! 🙂
Megan
http://www.lifeonshadylane.com
Thank you, Megan!!
This turned out so pretty! I LOVE this project! Hey, I justt noticed that your wood floors in this new house look exactly like the floors in my 1953 ranch, which i have been sloooowly uncovering, one room at a time. While i love them – SO so much better than the various carpet/laminate that was covering them, i am wishy-washy about the color of them. THAT was a long lead up to: what are you doing with yours? Leaving them as is? or refinishing, etc? Or is it a secret, LOL?
Oh you are so funny, Julie!! Nope, not a secret. There are actually only two rooms that have that hardwood in them – my office and the Circus’ bedroom. The rest of the floors are just subfloor underneath. In my office, we are leaving the floors as is. There are a few spots that have worn and I’m going to attempt to touch them up. I really don’t want to completely refinish them because it’s not a huge spot. And on top of that, I really like the shade of them anyway. The Circus’ room will get carpet over the floors. We are ‘carpet in bedrooms’ kind of people! The main living areas of the house are getting a luxury vinyl flooring that you can read about here: https://rainonatinroof.com/2016/01/how-to-install-nucore-flooring/ Hope all that helps and it wasn’t information overload!
I love this and can’t wait to try it!
Thank you so much for sharing this…
Definitely one of my favorite posts!
Helen H
Thanks, Helen!! It was a really easy project and also of my favorite ones to date!!
Classic, bold, and fun – love it!
Thank you, Brooke!
Those are great! Good Job
Thanks so much, Jessica!
Your doors turned out gorgeously! LOVE! Thanks for sharing your crafty inspiration on this week’s Monday Funday Party!
Thanks, Pauline!!
I was just going to paint my closet doors but after seeing what you did I am going to get black paint and frog tape and I will have your classy looking closets to modernize my room in just a jiffy. Thank you so much for this idea!!!
Awesome, Valarie!!
This is stunning! I love how it turned out and really looks upscale now. Thanks for sharing on To Grandma’s House We Go!
They turned out gorgeous! Frog tape is the best invention ever! Thanks for sharing with SYC.
hugs,
Jann
Love this!!
Thanks, Courtney!
I have painted my closet doors previously and am now ready for a change, what can I do with the indentions from where I took the tape off? Bad visual, I know, I mean, the pattern will show thru again, with the new idea/color.
Hi Julie! Take some sandpaper to those spots and sand them smooth. That’s what I’ve done in the past. 🙂