How to Paint a Corner Where Two Colors Meet

Are you looking to give a room (or rooms) in your home a new paint job? Painting your home’s interior is an easy way to upgrade its appearance and make it more stylish. While it is a lot easier to paint the entire interior one color, current home décor trends don’t always dictate that to be the wisest choice. Even if you don’t make it your priority to follow home décor trends, having a variety of paint colors in your home can have lots of benefits. Here are a few reasons why you should use multiple paint colors and a few tips on how to do so.

Why Should I Choose Multiple Paint Colors?

If you find yourself slipping into your old habits of all-white walls all around the house, remember the benefits of using multiple paint colors throughout your house. Here are just a few reasons why choosing to include multiple paint colors in your home’s interior design can be a great idea.

Different Paint Colors Have Different Paint Effects

First off, incorporating different paint colors into your interior home design can change the feeling of different rooms of your home. Different paint colors can affect the way you feel when you’re in a certain room. For example, blue paint colors can help you feel calm, relaxed, secure, and peaceful. Yellow paint colors, on the other hand, can help you feel excited, energized, happy, and creative. Even adding a splash of color on an accent wall can help you and your guests feel certain, positive emotions when you’re in a certain room in your home.

Accent Walls Can Spruce Up Any Room

Next, you can use multiple paint colors to make an accent wall in a room (or two) of your home. An accent wall is one wall that is painted a different color in a specific room. Sometimes, accent walls also have designs and textures to make them stand out even more. Accent walls can spruce up a formerly boring room, giving them more depth. Some different paint colors applied to accent walls in certain ways can even make your room look bigger, brighter, taller, or deeper.

To Make a House a Home

Finally, using different paint colors can help you to make your house feel more like a home. Sometimes, personalizing a space for a certain individual in your family can make their room feel more personal, comfortable, and inviting. For example, if you have a new little baby, adding an accent color to the room can help the nursery feel cozier and happier. This is especially important when you’re caring for your baby late into the night and early in the morning. Personalizing a child’s bedroom with their favorite color can also help them to feel special and loved.

What Supplies Do I Need?

Here are a few supplies that will make your painting job a lot easier. Make sure to add these to your shopping list!

Two Paint Colors

Obviously, you’ll need your two paint colors of choice! Make sure the colors complement each other. For example, shades in the same color family or with adjacent undertones look great together.

Painter’s Tape

Painter’s tape can help you to get a straight, crisp, pull line when you take the tape off your corner wall.

Paint Trays

Paint trays will make it a lot easier to get lots of paint onto your paint rollers since they won’t fit into the paint cans.

Paintbrushes

Paintbrushes can help you to get the hard-to-reach spots near the corner seam between your two walls.

Paint Rollers

Paint rollers will help you to cover large spans of your wall quickly and easily.

How Do I Paint a Corner with Two Intersecting Colors?

Now that you’ve done all the necessary preparation to start your paint job, let’s get to the actual steps of this process! Here are some tips to have the best approach to painting a corner with two intersecting colors.

Paint the First Wall

You’ll start off this painting project by painting the first wall. If the rest of the room and nearby rooms are going to be painted in this same color, it is easiest to start with this color. On this first wall, you don’t need to worry about getting the corner straight because you’ll be painting it over after you lay down the tape. Before moving on, make sure that your wall is completely and entirely dry. If you try to continue without your paint being dry, your paint job could get messed up.

Tape and Repaint the Corner

To get the tape down nice and firm for a tight seal, use an old credit card (or something similar) and run it across the length of the tape. The edge of your paint needs to be at a precise and perpendicular angle to get a straight line. Sometimes, using small portions of tape and lining them up together can make this process easier, but you have to ensure that the tape lines up perfectly so you don’t have crooked seam marks. Once your tape is laid down, repaint over the corner seam with the first paint color. This will prevent any bleeding or different colors from showing through. Remember to let the paint dry completely before moving on.

Paint the Second Wall

Next, you’ll be ready to paint the second wall. Use your paintbrush when you’re painting near the corner for an easier and more precise application. Also, paint over half of the painter’s tape to ensure that you get a crisp line when you remove the tape.

Remove Tape

This time don’t wait for the paint to dry before you remove the tape. Instead, remove the tape while the paint is still wet. This will allow the paint to dry completely without any bubbles or tears in the paint from contact with the tape, leaving you with a straight, clean result. Once your wall is done, enjoy!