Once your walls are totally dry, it’s time to place your stripes. For vertical stripes, measure the width of the wall and for horizontal stripes, measure the height.

However, "If the idea of striped walls feels intimidating, try using two similar colors, or even two different sheens of the same color for a more tonal look," advises Scott.

You might want to introduce stripes to create an illusion. Vertical stripes, for example, make walls seem taller, while horizontal stripes can make them appear wider.

Seven things you might not know about stripes Horizontal stripes have been used to draw the eye and signpost the audacious for centuries.

This then generates the illusion that the square with horizontal lines is taller and slimmer than the same-sized square with vertical stripes, which looks short and fat.

Wearing horizontal stripes really does make you look fatter, an amateur scientist has found.

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