BORDERTIME

This past week we painted our old bedroom which is now the computer/schoolroom (we homeschool). The painting part of it went fine, changing the room from a pretty pink to a bright lime green.
To finish it off we put a sunflower border around the room and it nicely compliments the color scheme.
We bought the border not realizing that this was self stick border. I'm used to the dip the border into warm water get it good and wet and slap it up and you're done. Gee, I thought with self stick this will be a snap. No so. I could have painted that room three times in the amount of time it took for me to put that !@#$$%%^&*() border up.
Lesson One: Self stick border is unforgiving, where it sticks is where it stays. There is no adjusting like what you can do with the other type of border. Lesson Two: Your room has to be square and ours wasn't cause I could not run the 15' of border and keep it square with the room. It kept "inching" up the farther you went along. If I were to keep going half of the border would be on the ceiling. So I ended up cut the border every 3 to 4 feet and starting over. Thank God that the pattern was forgiving as you couldn't see where I spliced unless you looked really good.
So next time we will make sure we get the pre-pasted border and save us a lot of headaches.