The information in this article applies to:
QUESTION
I want to change the color or material of just one wall in my room to create an accent wall. How can I do this?

ANSWER
Changing the color or material of a single wall is easy to accomplish using either the Material Painter or by accessing the Wall Specification dialog.
To change the color or material of a single wall using the Material Painter
- First, select View> Library Browser
to display the Library Browser.
- Select 3D> Create Camera View> Doll House View
so you can see the wall you wish to apply a material to.
- Select 3D> Material Painter> Material Painter Component Mode
to set the material painter to use the component mode.
- In the Library Browser, search for and select the color or material you wish to apply to a single wall, bring your cursor into the 3D view, and notice that it changes to the material painter
.
- Click on a wall to apply the selected color or material to that wall.
To change the color or material of a single wall using the Wall Specification dialog
- First, use the Select Objects
tool to select the wall and click on the Open Object
edit tool.
- Go to the Materials panel of the Wall Specification dialog, select the Wall Surface you want to change, and click on the Select Material button to display the Select Material dialog.
- Navigate to the material or color you want to apply to the wall.

Notice that a display of the selected material displays to the right in the dialog if you have the Preview and Selection panes active.
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Once you have the material that you want to use selected, click OK to close the dialog and OK again to apply the chosen material or color to the wall.
In some cases, such as when an exterior wall runs the length of several rooms, you may not want to change the material of the entire wall. Alternately, you may want to apply different colors to several different sections of the same wall to create a striped effect.

If you are in a 3D camera view, return to your 2D floor plan view for the following steps.
To change the color or material of a section of wall vertically
- To apply a different color of material to just a section of a wall, you will first need to place break points on either side of the section that you want to change. To do this, Select
the wall you'd like to break into separate segments, click on the Break
edit tool located in the Edit toolbar, then click at the location where you want to place the break.
In Home Designer 2020 and prior program versions, navigate to Build> Wall> Break Wall
instead and click where you want one of the edges of the differing material to be at.
- Follow the same procedure to place additional break points as needed.
- After you have used the Break
tool, use the instructions above to change the material on just that section of the wall.
