When we first saw the yellow freehand painted two-tone wall at Style-Files (below), we were of two minds: good idea but something held us back.

Then we came started to come across an iteration Remodelista found at the Norwegian company Lady Premium Paint & Colors blog that made us think it held lots of possibilities.  Out-of-the-blue we spotted the freehand-by-brush two-tone painted iPad sleeve (below) at Swiss-Miss. We began to think imagine embellishing all sorts of things with free-hand two-tone paint, like pillows a la Wary Meyers…

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Although it is free-hand (with a paint roller), there is enough preparation and considerations that it’s worth checking out the how-to’s here and here. 

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two-tone chairs, using paint or upholstery
copy this: paint a pillow…sofa…bedspread…curtain…