Chevron painted wall DIY

The Chevron trend is everywhere, so why not in my house, too?!
An accent wall seemed the best choice and I am very pleased with the results.   There is a wall about the same size directly across that is probably going to match as soon as I get  more painter's tape.
The process was pretty easy once you get the measurements figured out.  The best way for me was to make a rectangular grid and connect the angles.

 This way you can visualize how big your stripes will be and adjust accordingly.  After my hubs took a look, we opted to "double" the width of the stripes.  They went from 4 inches to 8 inches.   The most tedious was leveling and drawing all the pencil lines, but it was a necessary step to be sure the painter's tape would be straight.
Thankfully, I had more of the original wall paint on hand so I could touch up all my pencil marks and eraser smudges after the project was done.
One stencil video by Cutting Edge Stencils had some helpful tips on applying the paint.   Normally, I would have just brushed the paint on, but after watching the video I went with the small foam roller.  I did not have a paper plate on hand, so I used a Chinese take out container.  This technique was super easy on the application and clean up. 

 I decided to do gray on gray, because that's what we had.  The walls are light matte gray and I had some leftover darker eggshell gray from a desk I painted several months ago.  It worked out perfectly, if left to choose from the paint store I probably would have gotten a bold color...which I would have wanted to change sooner rather than later...
Pinterest also has tons of really cool canvas chevron and herringbone project ideas.  I'm definitely not an artist, but a large piece of bold wall art may not be out of the question after all.

UPDATE: 5 days later, I did the wall across to balance out the accent.  Well, that's what I said to the hubs...I just really like the way it turned out.
If you're gonna give it a shot, I'll happily answer any question. :)