I painted a supergraphics mural

January 15, 2020

I partnered with my friends at Home Depot and BEHR Paints to create a super graphics mural in our guest room / home office. I used five different BEHR Paints colors (listed below) in this fun and funky mural that bounces around the room including the ceiling.

We all have our favorite stores that we love to shop at, and for me that fun place is The Home Depot. I often find myself visiting once a week to check out the newest tools, plants, and yes of course the paints. I swung by the BEHR Paints section to get inspired by their amazing variety of paint colors. It was hard to choose just one, so I ended up choosing multiple colors to work with. I picked out five colors that I really loved and arranged them in the order that I felt worked best.

I had the Home Depot paint counter mix the colors for me in the color sample size. I got one sample size for each color, which was plenty of paint for this project. The color samples are a great price point at around $4 each.

Material list all found at Home Depot :

BEHR Paints colors used for this project:

Before getting started, I prepped the room by removing anything that I didn't want to risk getting paint on. I covered items too large to remove with drop cloths. I started in the top ceiling corner with the yellow frog tape and worked my way down towards the opposite corner (Top left to bottom right). I didn't measure out any specific area, but just let the tape do the work by lightly pulling down to create fun and bold lines. After taping off the first wall, I connected the tape in the corner on the opposite wall and worked my way upward to the next corner (bottom left to top right).

Pro Tip: I cut the tape in the corners with a Utility knife so I’d have crisp lines to connect the next piece of tape to the lines on the opposite wall. I also used a plastic smoothing tool to help apply the tape to the walls, which helped reduce the paint from bleeding under the taped off lines.

I taped off the top and the bottom sections at the same time so that I was able to paint two colors the first day. I let both colors dry for a full day before moving on to paint the next colors. I knew I wanted the top line to be the bright yellow (Extreme Yellow)

so I started painting that color section first. Then I painted the darkest shade of blue (Deep Breath) in the bottom section.

I spent a little more time on the ceiling to insure I had clean lines, and less to touch up at the end.

I spaced out the colors by painting two colors each day for three days. This way each color had a full day to dry before I taped over it to paint the next color.

It was so satisfying pulling off the tape for the last paint color!

This was the point when I could really see all the bold colorful lines come together and bounce around the room.

Once all the colors were dry, I used the original wall color (BEHR ultra-white) and a small touch up brush to clean up any areas where the yellow or the dark blue bled through the tape, which really gave that clean crisp line look.

I'm so happy with the final product, and I’m glad I chose to use multiple shades that could stand out. This is a simple project that anyone can do. I spent around 2 hours each day for a total of 3 days to complete the project. Go check out some of the trending colors at The Home Depot and get inspired. Remember you don’t have to limit yourself to just one color. Get creative and make your home your dream home, one room at a time!

Here are some pictures of our newly painted room with everything back in its place.