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Star Wars Room Paint Ideas

Disclosure: Zinsser Primer and Behr Paint were provided for our project. All opinions are 100% my own.

Creativity goes a long way when decorating children’s rooms. Our son’s “Star Wars” Room wowed all his friends. Check out the paint techniques used to make this really fun Star Wars themed room. Decorating kid’s rooms does not need to cost a lot of money, just patience and a fun plan. We used beautiful and inexpensive Behr paint to create an out of this world space for our son.

Star Wars PaintI wanted to share a quick photo tutorial of Star Wars Room Paint Ideas. The paint matched our vintage Star Wars sheets perfectly! We used Zinsser Primer and low VOC eggshell interior paint by Behr. We have painted a lot of condos and houses in our nearly 12 years of marriage and we have always used Behr paint. We like the coverage and the price is really budget friendly. My mom is a professional house painter and she swears by Zinsser primer, she insisted that we prime the entire interior with Zinsser. All of the paint used required only one coat (after it was primed) with the exception of the yellow. In our case we did need two coats of the Laser Yellow.

DIY Painting

 First step – Mom primed the entire room – it made all the difference!

cutting in primer

Next Step – Paint!

Behr Paint

We settled on these pretty colors….

Star Wars Room Paint

If you are looking for Star Wars Room Paint Ideas – there are lots of options, but white, navy blue, black, and yellow are good colors to use.

We used a laser level (by ‘we’ I mean my dad and husband, I pretty much was just there to say where I wanted the stripe!) to make a super straight line with our blue painters tape. We started with a big bold navy blue stripe all around the room.

Painting Stripes

Here’s the deal – I suppose there are people that have no problem using painters tape just on it’s own, but we aren’t those people. Every time we make stripes it bleeds. We started using drywall patch all along the stripe to seal the edge and it works like a dream!  Using the two together is the perfect duo for our fun decor projects.

Drywall Patch

clean stripe paint

*Mom was kind enough to paint the blue for us while we were not in the house. Unfortunately there is no visual documentation of this happening, but basically once the painter’s tape was patched she simply painted between the lines with Admiral Blue paint. It took one solid coat. We let it dry for a full day before pulling off the paint – literally NO bleeding on the entire thing – top or bottom!*

The next step was REALLY fun….. but a wee bit time consuming. Here is where my husband put what I call ‘pew pew pew Star Warsie’ lines, but he informed me the lines he did were fashioned after the design inside the space ships in Star Wars. Whatever you want to call them – they are legit!

Harry used a ruler, a fancy triangle thingy, and more painter’s tape to make a super cool design all around the room.

Star Wars Paint Treatment

Star Wars

Star Wars paintingAre you starting to see it? Simple, but it is so perfectly “Star Wars”

And we had to add in a little black too – only one coat!

Black Paint Star Wars

We didn’t patch the painter’s tape on the ‘pew pew pew Star Warsie’ lines and I lived to regret it. There were many spots that I needed to take a teensie tiny artist grade brush with Swiss Coffee paint to….. that was annoying, but ah it was perfect after!

And the final product………….

Star Wars Finished

Pretty cool right? I mean, if you were a 7 year old boy you would be pretty stoked right?

Star Wars Room

Star Wars Themed Boys Room

Paint colors used for those interested

  • Swiss Coffee
  • Admiral Blue
  • Carbon
  • Laser Yellow

(All are Behr Paint – interior Low VOC paint in an eggshell finish)

Do you have any other Star Wars room Paint ideas to share?  I’d love you to leave it in the comment section!

Until Next Time ~ Kate
Categories:  DIY
  1. My son wants me to do this now. Oh boy!

  2. Shawna says:

    i too have problems with paint bleeding under painters tape & not getting a clean line. I’m not sure though that I understand how you use/apply the drywall compound to the tape to prevent this. Could you please explain in more detail?

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