I stenciled two rooms 8 years ago. The rooms need repainting. Does anyone have ideas on how to paint room without painting over stencil and then having to repaint stencil on? I can't block out stencil because the wall around the stencil will be a different color(even if stick to a basic antique white) than the newly repainted room.

 

It probably won't work the way you want it too. I see of no way to do it unless you want to spend hours with a artist brush and cut around them.

 

Sorry corlee, I don't know of any way

I've seen it done like prowallguy described (pretty close anyway) on a historical building
It was extremely labor intensive and extremely expensive
It also looked extremely bad...
It was painted over in less then a year

 

You could turn the stencil and old-paint into a border. Use a level and draw a very light line around the room, then tape to the line and paint. This may not look good when you are done, but you haven't lost anything except a little time. If it doesn't look good to you, you just paint over the stencils as you are going to do anyway.

 

if there's absolutely no way that the current wall color could be used in the new room's color scheme, even as just the background of the "border", then don't even try to painstakingly paint around the stencil. it will surely look like you did just that. but if the background could work, then do as BobF said, but go a step or 2 further to make it really look like a border. you'll need more than just one straight line. most borders have several lines of color on the edges to really frame them, like a double or triple mat on a framed picture. you might even install some wood mouldings above & below the stencil to really frame it in.