The past couple of weekends were spent making our garage a little more colorful with a geometric wall! Only part of our garage is drywalled so we just painted that portion. My husband has been talking about adding a fun, bright wall somewhere and I, a lover of neutrals, allowed him paint the garage in whatever colors he wanted – the inside will continue to stay neutral 😉 .
We ended up finding some pretty blue colors in the markdown section of Lowe’s and based our design around them. The navy was only $10 for a gallon and the light aqua was only $40 for 5 gallons! Unfortunately, they did not have the names of the colors on the can/bucket so I’m not sure what the exact colors they are. The other colors we used are Bora Bora Shore by Sherwin Williams (same as our front door) and Autumn Fog by Valspar.
Materials
- A variety of paint colors – we found it was easiest to use 4 colors with our triangular design
- White Paint + Primer (if your wall isn’t already white)
- Painter’s tape (we used this one)
- Rollers, brushes, and trays – this kit is great!
Step 1: Prime the Walls
Because our garage was only taped and drywalled, we needed to prime and paint the whole wall white. If your wall is already white (or whatever your desired line color is), then you can skip this step. Tape across the ceiling and then start rolling the white paint + primer. Let this coat of paint dry and then go over with a second coat if needed. The paint we used was actually provided great coverage so we didn’t need feel we needed to do a second coat (it was also the garage so we felt it didn’t need to be super perfect 🙂 ).
Step 2: Tape the Design
The next step for your geometric wall is actually making it geometric! This part can be a little time consuming – we did a mockup wall in an image editor (Photoshop, Gimp, etc.) to get a general idea of what we liked, but it still took a while to figure out exactly how we wanted the pattern to look. We decided a triangular design would be easiest, but I definitely recommend looking at Pinterest or even just Google Images to see what shapes you like best. Some of the hexagonal or rectangular patterns are super cool, too!
Step 3: Plan the colors
Once you have your design taped the way you like it, take a picture of the wall so you can use the image editor to fill in the shapes and plan the colors. For our triangular design, we used 4 colors; we found that was the only way we could make sure no two triangles were touching. Make several different colored designs if you’d like so that you can compare and see what you like best. Once you’ve perfected the colors, save a copy on your phone or even print it out so you can easily reference which colors go where.
Step 4: Seal the edges
This step we maybe could have skipped since we were painting on a flat wall, but if your walls have any texture, you will want to be sure you do this. Go back over the edges of your taped lines with your base color (in our case, the white paint + primer). This seals the edge so that if there’s any bleeding through the tape, it’ll just be the color of the lines and won’t be a big deal. The lines will be so crisp!
Step 5: Add some color
Now comes the fun part! Let’s add some color to that geometric wall. Finally seeing some color on the wall makes all that prep work worth it. We triple checked our mockup design to make sure all the colors were in the right spot. If needed, add a second coat of the colored paint.
Step 6: Remove the tape
Once your paint has dried, but is still soft, remove the tape and watch your design come to life! Touch up any of the lines as needed. The tape sometimes pulled up some of our white paint but it was easy to go back and touch up those areas.
Ta-da! What do you think of this geometric wall? Would you add one to your home?
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