100+ Interior Painting Ideas
Sometimes you want a new look for a room but your budget is limited to paint? Am I right? Have you been there? Or if you are there right now, I thought it would be fun to look at a round up of creative painting ideas, and when I say creative, some are on the crazy side but SO cool! These ideas may not be right for every single room in your house, in fact, I would use these ideas sparingly so you don’t get overloaded, but there are definitely some great ideas for using paint around… so here you go!
P.S. The great thing is, if you have a decent base color a lot of these ideas can be accomplished with just a pint or I daresay a sample sized paint purchase on top of that original paint color, so that sounds pretty budget friendly to me.
Also, some of these ideas might be wallpaper or some other type of surface, but I think the idea could be done in paint which is why I shared those images. Enjoy!
Striped Walls
Grab your painter’s tape and get started! Stripes offer a classic look that adds interest instantly. Go bold with high contrast colors or more subtle with variations on the same color.
I love the tone on tone chevron stripe in this bedroom above that we saw at a local home show.
If you like chevron stripes, you must try this tutorial featured at Remodelaholic by A Commoner’s Castle
Then of course this colorful version for a nursery! Vie eHow
Rainbow stripes! Great sample paint project!! Via Sweet Peach Blog
Small stripes (technically washi tape, but could be done with paint!) Via Ann Kelle
Multi-color stripes Source Unknown
What about these great wavy stripes source unknown
More natural wavy stripes idea Via Homeizy
This dining room is stunningly beautiful! I love the ombre stripes, and calming wall colors (plus a fun pop or coral red)! Featured here on Remodelaholic with a tutorial by House for Five.
Love the vertical stripes in this teen boy bedroom!
This great nursery would work from baby to teen! Carrying the stripes to the ceiling is so pleasing to the eye! Via Sketch 42
Large scale stripes Via Desire to Inspire
The simple horizontal stripe in these next few rooms can be done in different ways but looks great. And is SUPER easy!
Just one simple stripe of an accent color!
Freehand stripe! Via The Glow
See more colorful painting ideas on the next page –>
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
Awesome collection of projects. Thank you for compiling them all. I found several new blogs to follow!
Manda @ Our Wolf Den
Wow, thank you for featuring my Gender Neutral Stenciled Wall! I’m honored that it is you favorite stenciled project 🙂
I still can’t get over how amazing the idea was! You’re a genius!!!
Amazing!! It took me a while to get through the whole list….I was in awe and just enjoying all the amazing ideas. Had to pin quite a few too!! Thanks for the great post!! Awesome ideas!!
It really is amazing what you can do with just a little bit of paint!
What a fantastic round up of painted walls, I have saved this to my favourites as I know Ill be back for ideas soon! I used the colour block (teal/white/black) photo as inspiration to paint stripes on my entrance wall – it started out as light grey and dark grey but after knocking a chunk out the wall just weeks after I finished it, I added a teal stripe as well and absolutely love it 🙂 You can see my stripe project here https://jarrahjungle.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/the-painted-stripes-project-take-2.html
We are glade you liked the post. There are a lot of great options.
Wow! This post is filled with so many great ideas! It makes me want to paint!
Wow! There are so many great ideas here! I love the last picture with the polka dots on the ceiling. Thanks for sharing all this inspiration!
You are welcome Helen!
Fabulous projects! Thank you for sharing these great ideas with us! Love the bird wallpaper and the ombre style wallpapers!
THanks so much I just pinned away. I love painted walls I have a chalkboard hallway, a striped laundry room ceiling and a modern tree stencil all within my home. I’m always looking for inspiration Lesley
I love all of these! Especially the gray birds in that mudroom, do you have the link to where you found it?
Lovely collection of painted walls. Very creative but surely it would take time to complete such one perfectly as this.
These are some mighty fine paintings ideas. It would certainly be lovely to use these in any interior setup. Thanks for the share.
Hexagon Painted wall- https://www.remodelaholic.com/2013/12/ombre-painted-hexagon-accent-wall-diy/
That one was fairly inexpensive to accomplish since most of the colors were mixed with leftover paint.
I’m eyeing the empty wall in my office and contemplating trying the colorful diamonds. So pretty! So colorful!
This is such a fantastic collection of ideas! I love the idea of writing an entire chapter of a book on a wall–totally something I would do! A lot of these ideas would be easy to do with wall decals and removable wallpaper like that you can find over at WallsNeedLove.com. There are polka dots, birds on a wire, and lots of stripes in every imaginable color. Plenty of chevron removable wallpaper in lots of colors, too.
Thanks for the great post!
Thanks, Tamara!
Good work I love them all.pls.can you help me send picture via my email pls. Am just a learner try to start painting work.pls.,,pls
Where did you find the four panel airplane picture?
I agree – I would LOVE to purchase the wood airplane prints.
I love them, too! I took that photo at a Parade of Homes, though, so I’m not sure where to track them down. I’ll be on the lookout though!
I love this blog. There are some fun ideas in here. And when you get bored with one try a different one. Check out sawdustandembryos.com. Bethany has some amazing walls in her house and she paints back splashes too.
I don’t have enough rooms to try them all!
need Modern statement wall.. Any ideas out there? Like a Jonathan Adler style or basketweave 70’s chic,,, Retro, Mid Century Modern..
Thanks! Anyone in Florida want to do it with me or for me?
The whale pattern is awesome!!!!
Awesome, Waoh!!!!!!
Thanks, Victoria 🙂