100+ Interior Wall Painting Ideas You’ll Love

Wall Painting Ideas: Repeated Pattern and Geometric Shapes on Walls

Repeated patterns and geometric shapes are in style and easy to DIY!

That makes these geometric patterns a great idea for wall paintings that are modern, bold, and done in a weekend.

MORE WALL PAINTING DESIGNS IN THIS POST:
page 1: striped and wavy walls
page 2: ombre/colorwash/colorblock walls
page 3: stenciled walls and faux wallpaper
page 4: faux painted molding
page 5: murals and artsy walls
page 6: patterned and geometric walls
page 7: chalkboard and typography accent wall ideas
page 8: ceilings

Simple Pattern Wall Painting Ideas: Herringbone

Herringbone is a classic style, and the simple geometric patterns can be painted on your walls using just painter’s tape.

A herringbone pattern looks great in a solid color like this deep navy blue wall in a nursery.

See more stamped and hand-painted herringbone wall ideas here.

Or, use a variety of neutral shades for a bold herringbone wall like this laundry room accent wall. Featured on Remodelaholic here by Design Build Love

For a smaller artistic herringbone pattern like this, you’ll probably want to use a large wall stencil or our simple wall paint stamping technique instead of just painter’s tape.

To keep the hand-drawn style when using a stencil for herringbone: rather than rolling the paint on the stencil, use a small paint brush to paint the lines with the stencil providing a basic pattern to trace.

Simple Pattern Wall Painting Ideas: Polka Dots

For a kids’ bedroom, playroom, or another room where you want a fun and relaxed vibe — paint polka dots!

This is the classiest polka dot wall I’ve ever seen!

Paint or stencil allover polka dots in a high-gloss paint in the same color (or one shade different) as the wall color.

These colorful bubble circles are so fun for a living room or sitting area — a great way to decorate above the couch!

I really love that the overlapping colors combine to make the new color. It’s the little details!

There are also soooo many renter-friendly polka dot decals available if you want a patterned wall without painting.

See polka dot wall decal options and get more polka dot wall ideas here.

This large scale polka dot painted wall would be easy to DIY using a couple of paint sample cans, or you can get large circle vinyl decals here and skip painting.

More circles, but these are spaced in a grid and left open in the center, a little more modern design!

Simple Pattern Wall Painting Ideas: Triangles

Triangles are a fun shape to mix up the square and rectangle surfaces of your home.

These multicolor triangle arrows bring a lot of life and pattern to this girls bedroom!

This multicolor triangle wall features about 8 different colors of equilateral (all the same size) triangles to fill the whole wall with rows of shapes.

A stencil makes this repeating triangle wall painting design easy — and I love how they painted a few triangles different colors!

More triangles, different spacing!  This is another look that is so easy to put up (and take down later) by using triangle wall decals.

This basic half square triangle painted wall reminds me of a quilt!

Love the quilt as wallpaper idea? Check out these patchwork wallpaper designs! 

Simple Pattern Wall Painting Ideas: Squares & Diamonds

It doesn’t get much simple than painting a square… but these square design wall painting ideas make a BIG impact!

If you’re a fan of farmhouse, a gingham plaid accent wall (or buffalo check, if you prefer) will look great!

This little girls bedroom is so darling with the bunny ear headboard and the coordinating buffalo check wall painting above the (faux) wainscoting.

A small pattern with a big impact: allover painted squares in metallic silver paint! Gives this small powder room a very high-end feeling.

Use painter’s tape to create this diamond argyle plaid pattern in several colors — fun for a kids’ playroom or bedroom!

This diamond pattern wall is another example of what you can do with washi tape on your walls — but it would be really easy to paint as well for longer durability.

A subtle pattern like this is a great wall painting idea for a living room, and it looks great behind the mirrors in this gorgeous bathroom below, too!

This white diamond tile with black grout looks so good, and could easily be duplicated with paint for a low-cost painted accent wall or bathroom backplash.

How about a square grid made up of smaller squares? This high impact wallpaper idea could be painted, stenciled, or stamped.

A black wall will always be high impact — this white grid makes it extra great!

This could be stamped, stenciled, or drawn on using sharpie paint pens.

See the best black paint colors and how to use black in your home decor.

Grab a wide foam brush and start painting your own faux brick wall!

Okay, this is a real brick wall but I think this look could be duplicated in paint by combining the painted subway tile backsplash technique with this faux aged brick painting technique.

Try it and let me know, eh?

Simple Wall Painting Design Ideas: Shapes

You can paint stripes and paint squares (above) — these other shapes look great and are easy wall painting ideas, too!

Hexagons and octagons are great geometric shapes to use in your decor and wall treatments.

Learn how to measure and tape a full wall of hexagons following this tutorial here.

Keep a geometric stencil interesting by only filling in part of the wall, like this hexagon accent wall.

Get a hexagon stencil like this here.

For a large modern graphic wall design, these interlocking octagon rings are so fun!

I’ve seen geometric tape art like this but I LOVE the idea of doing a wall!  Random geometric shapes in a couple of colors, using just painter’s tape.

The opposite of the above… dark lines where the paint had been!!

Recreate this geometric wall panel pattern using the same painter’s tape technique, but use thinner tape to minimize the lines between.

Check out our favorite decorative wall panels here.

This very large scale stencil of pink stars makes a big statement in this cute baby girls’ nursery.

For a truly starry outlook on your painted walls… stencil stars AND and moon!

I am so in love with this whole painted wall idea by Honey Built Home. The dark blue color blocking on the top of the wall stenciled with stars and that huge moon in the corner — aah, I love it.

Combine the stenciled stars with some thick black and white stripes for a large painted flag wall mural.

This modern 3d style wallpaper reminds me of tetris!

We found the wallpaper here and a similar style stencil here.

Next page: chalkboard and typography walls –>

WALL PAINTING IDEAS IN THIS POST:
page 1: striped and wavy walls
page 2: ombre/colorwash/colorblock walls
page 3: stenciled walls and faux wallpaper
page 4: faux painted molding
page 5: murals and artsy walls
page 6: patterned and geometric walls
page 7: chalkboard and typography accent wall ideas
page 8: ceilings

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