9 Best Paints for Interior Walls (2025)

Benjamin Moore Regal Select Waterborne Interior Paint is a trusted brand with one of the most popular latex-based interior wall paints out there. Why? It creates a uniform finish that goes on easily and smoothly.

Engineered with Benjamin Moore’s signature Gennex Color Technology, it promises a gallery of bold, beautiful and one-of-a-kind hues that resist fading.

Offering a hard, rich luster, Behr Urethane Alkyd Semi-Gloss Enamel is an excellent product for painting walls, even those covered with beadboard, wainscotting and paneling. It gives you a non-matte, long-lasting, durable finish.

It’s also not your grandmother’s oil-based paint. Behr cleans up with soap and water; no turpentine or paint thinner is needed.

Some less expensive paints, diluted with fillers and extenders, produce uneven coats and downright lousy performance all-around. Not so for Glidden Essentials Interior Paint ($15).

It’s a budget-friendly paint to apply to already primed or painted walls of similar color, as well as for repainting between tenants or simply freshening up a dingy room. It goes on smoothly and it’s scrubbable when dry. It earned more than 7,000 five-star ratings on homedepot.com.

With a velvety-soft ultra-matte finish, Rust-Oleum Interior Chalked paint generally covers most surfaces in one coat, adhering without sanding or priming.

Choose from a range of colors, from pale to bright. The paint dries to the touch in just 30 minutes and one quart covers up to 150 sq. ft. There’s also a brush-on Rust-Oleum Chalked Clear Protective Topcoat if you want extra protection.

Benjamin Moore Waterborne Ceiling Paint is highly sought-after for its spatter-resistant properties and ultra-flat finish that hides imperfections on ceiling surfaces. Another big plus: Its slow dry time, which helps avoid unsightly lap lines. It’s great for use on new and previously painted drywall, wallpaper, acoustical ceiling tiles, plaster and other ceiling substrates.

Behr’s Marquee Ultra Interior Paint & Primer delivers outstanding hide and coverage in a single step. Paint over an ill-advised Goth-inspired black wall in your teen’s room or block years of tobacco smoke stains in a living area. Marquee is tintable with more than 1,000 colors and backed by Behr’s One-Coat Hide Guarantee.

“As a professional painting contractor, this is probably one of the best paints on the market money can buy,” writes one Home Depot web site customer. “Hides easy making for flawless color changes. Sprays well in airless machines and [is] very durable. My go-to for interior paint.”