Ad: Pink & Green Painted Office with B&Q

This post is in paid partnership with B&Q.

Now I know how much you probably love my flower wall in my office, and I do too, but I was starting to feel a bit overwhelmed by it and wanted a calmer feel where I sit down to work most days. When B&Q got in touch to be part of their renting DIY series, where they are encouraging people living in rented properties that you can make a home you love – even in a rented property! 

With this in mind, I really wanted to change up the office. When renting, painting a space is the quickest, cheapest way to update your surroundings. I have never ventured beyond brilliant white before now, but I thought a lot about what I wanted in here, and then stumbled across this image on Pinterest and knew that’s what I wanted to do! I’ve wanted to paint a room or a wall in my favourite dark green for a while now, and you don’t have to spend time on my Instagram for long to know pink and green is my go to colour combination throughout the house.

Luckily the wall was already white which gave this project the perfect starting block. Now painting a wall 2/3 one colour and 1/3 another might sound simple, but when it got to it getting that line super sharp was a lot harder than it looked. 

First off we marked roughly where we wanted the line with a spirit level and frog tape. Then we painted the wall dark green, in shade Valspar ‘Leafy Green’ up to the marked out line. Once that had dried, we painted the pink in shade Grand Plié , but then needed to make the two meet perfectly. 

Luckily my brother popped round, and he’s been a joiner his entire life and is pretty handy in these situations. I’d decided the best course of action was to bring the green up to meet the pink, and even painting over the pink a tiny bit, rather than the other way round, but every time we taped it up it, and no matter what the spirit level said it just didn’t look perfectly straight. Enter, THE LASER. 

Yes that’s right, a spirit level LASER. It was every bit as fun as you can imagine, you can attach it to quite a lot of different surfaces, and it projects a line right across the wall in red which then makes taping a very easy job! Once this was taped up, I painted a thin line of green, a couple of times. As then peeled off the frog tape when wet, in a firm downwards direction (do not leave it to dry, as you will not get a crisp line). 

Both colours need just two coats and I am so happy with the result! My office feels like a more grown up me, what do you think?

Let me know in the comments below!