kitchen ceiling Moroccafied

I really dig an all white kitchen.
When we moved into our current apartment the cupboards and countertops were already white. However, the walls and refridgerator were this awful, dingy, chalky flesh colored paint. There must be some non-profit that gives this craptastic paint out to supers. There is no way anyone would pay money for this stuff. Just paint apartments WHITE, even if we are poor, we deserve white, not flesh! Do you hear me slumlords landlords?!
Whew, got a little worked up, but I'm back. The flesh had to go, so we painted the walls 'white vertical stripes'. It's very subtle, but the stripes are visable by sheen. We used the same shade of white, but each stripe is either a flat or a high-gloss. It's wonderful, textured and interesting, but still WHITE!
Next problem, giant ugly yellow box in the corner. After a lot of pleading with our super to give us a white fridge, we ended up just painting our yellow/flesh one with appliance spray paint from my fav, Home Depot. It worked, it's white and it only cost $20. Seriously, the fridge looked brand new, it even covered the rust spots.
My only other solution was to try and switch our fridge with a bright shiney white baby in the basement, that hello... was not being used or even plugged in! Huz talked me out of that one, I guess he didn't feel like getting evicted for stealing refrigerators in the middle of the night. Pussy.
Finally the kitchen was white and it was lovely, but, I had to hang my head in shame, it needed a little somethin somethin. Maybe I was wrong all along, maybe I don't like all white kitchens?! Or maybe I just needed an all white kitchen with a crazy bright ceiling print.
Yep, that's it.

We bought this stencil on etsy from Royal Design Studio. It was a bit pricey, but it's a giant stencil and well, worth it.

This is the before. White, clean, but a bit boring. It's actually not even really clean, we always get flies, and flies pooped on my white ceiling. Ew. sorry.

We had this peacock tealish blue paint left from an old project. I thought that color, combined with the Morrocan print, was a perfect blend of Indian, Mediterranean, African, funkiness.

Supplies: 

Stencil:

White Russian break while stencil dries:

Trim:
I'm smiling because we are almost done and the camera guy is handsome. 

Done:

Total time on ladder: 3 hours
Total time from start to finish: 2 days
Total money spent: $58 (50 for stencil, 8 for shipping)
Remembering you have the best husband ever, who lets you stencil trippy designs on your ceiling. Priceless. 


Oh, important tip... coat the stencil back with some spray adhesive, along with tape for the corners. It keeps your lines perfect and both hands free.
It took a lot of time waiting for the paint residue on the stencil to dry. If you had the cash you could always buy two stencils, so one is always drying.
But we like things the slow, cheap and dirty kinda way.