Gorgeous

I love this idea! What a beautiful color blue!

How clever! I really like it. My concern would be that it would look too twee, which is fitting for a child's room, but not so much for adults. I like the contrast and the simplicity. And heaven knows I like clean lines. But I'm not sure I could do this for my own bedroom or living room.

This looks good, and much easier to alter later than a chair rail or wainscotting.

Oops, wainscoting.

I love this... And I believe that color choice would have a huge impact on looking twee or sophisticated. Imagine a deep plum or navy on the bottom. How sexy.

@lsugrad03, I thought about a deep plum or navy. I think it would look much more sophisticated. I also wondered whether just doing a two tone wall would be even better. Say, taupe and plum?

@Pi, I can definitely see a two-tone working. Alison says in her post about the room on the original blog that she is a fan of bright white, not off-whites, which is where I stand as well, so my personal taste says the bright white works. I'm now thinking about doing this treatment in what will be a home office or in my living room, which needs color, but also needs lots of white to bounce around the little light it receives. I think both settings would be appropriate.

Living in the West Indies we saw lots of rooms painted in color up to 10" from the ceiling and then white above and on the ceiling. Made the rooms look huge, cool and bright.

Yep I like it and have seen it done a few tmes effectively on blogs. I never would have thought of it myself so that is why I am glad I look at design blogs.

I'm repeating EMMB's sightings.. In various places I've visited in the villages of the Middle East, the walls are multi-colored as a norm- often pale blue/green with a red border (or similar color combinations) near the floor and then again a white border covering the upper part of the wall and ceiling.

We did this in our DR - white on bottom (almost like implied wainscoting) and dark brown on top. Everyone loves it.

Yeah on this! Remember that concrete house from the Ikea blog where they did pink with butterfly decals in their hallway? Loved it there. I wouldn't do the door, but otherwise this could be our next project. Great work!

I too painted the top half of a room. However, my dry-wall has that bumpy texture, and getting a straight line proved ... unrealistic. So I put a stripe of silver washi tape over the line, and got a wonderfully crisp look. It's also quite durable -- 15 months so far. To me, it also looks more finished than just the paint line.

Objectively I think this is Genius & so well done. A great way to add interest.

However coming from a city that was badly flooded last year the blue bottom gives me the heebee jeebies. Without that horrendous association I'm sure it's quite fun.

Thanks so much for the comments everyone! This treatment can be really flexible depending on the colors and height of your color divide. You could even play with the same paint color but in a different finish, glossy v. matte, anyone? Anyhoo, I'm flattered to have Elsa's room noticed by AT and hope that it has lent some inspiration to you all! ~Nicole