Paint is the easiest and least expensive way to transform any room in your home. Sure, solid walls are one way to refresh rooms, these painting ideas make a statement with their bold patterns, contrasting colors, and fun textures. Grab your rollers, overalls, and some cans of paint and get to decorating with these fun ideas!
Buffalo Check
You’ll need three coordinating colors for this technique and to make the buffalo check pattern, use a ruler and level to mark vertical and horizontal lines spaced four inches apart. Outline the stripes with painters tape and paint horizontal lines in the lightest color. With your medium-tone color paint vertical lines, then fill the squares where the vertical and horizontal lines intersect with the darkest shade of paint.
Two-Toned
It doesn’t get much easier than these two-toned walls—just mark your paint line using painters tape and a level and paint the area below to get the color-blocked look.
Painted Wall Stripes
This wall painting idea is great for home offices and kids bedrooms and playrooms. To paint the striped wall, use painters tape and a level to mark off equally spaced horizontal lines. Paint inside the tape sections and remove the tape when the paint is dry.
DIY Ombre
Use three paints in dark, medium, and light colors. To get the in-between shades, mix equal parts of your dark and medium paints and your light and medium paints. Paint the darkest color at the bottom and the medium shade above it, making sure to leave a gap between. Then, while the paint is wet, brush the medium-dark shade in the space between, using vertical strokes to blend them together. Repeat this step with your lighter colors as you move up the wall.
