Basement Wall Paint Ideas

Maximize with Molding and Paint

Arts and Crafts-style wainscoting isn't hard to create with plywood, crown molding, and 1x3 boards, more best ideas.

Mask Block Wall with Paint

Paint is an effortless approach to make the basement feel warmer, brighter, and much more welcoming. Be sure to test paint colours you might discover you can use brighter colours than you'd upstairs Because of reduced light levels.

Focus Attention with Colour

Produce a focal point wall in the basement with bright color. In an space with no natural lighting, choose colours, such as golden yellow, orange, or yellow-green.

Lines and Color Insert Orientation

A picture-frame motif repeats in the panel insets on the walls and carpet squares on the floor in this basement living area. The geometry is highlighted with a colour scheme. The artificial wall panels are made from molding.

Paint a Lively Grid on Basement Walls

Paint the entire wall whitened, then use wide painter's tape to tape off the grid. Roll on paint from the colors desired. After the paint dries, remove to show the outlines that are white.

A Bright, Beautiful, Budget End

A thrifty solution to completing a basement laundry room is to paint everything white--concrete-block walls in addition to the exposed floor joists and ducts overhead--and mask the walls with drapes.