When I first moved into my apartment I painted some of the walls more hastily than others because of waning time and interest.
An Example: After having some success with the birch wall stencil in my breakfast nook, I decided to also use it on the wall my couch is on. The couch wall is considerably larger than the nook wall and I lost interest 1/3 of the way in.
Successful nook:
More after the jump...