Hey how many of you painted your rooms ceiling a different color? ie you painted your walls one color then painted the ceiling and trim the same color or did you paint the wall and ceiling the same color?
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Most ceilings I've painted have been flat white. Bathrooms sometimes get mildew-resistant paint which has a slight sheen.
Only once did I paint a ceiling a different color than the walls. It was the toddler's room and they wanted lively colors. Personally, I didn't care for it.
Sometimes I'll paint a ceiling the same color as the walls, but only if it's a fairly light color. It affects the ambience of the room much more than if just the walls were done in a color. The ceiling color seems to imbue the room with a much greater feeling of whatever feelings that color evokes. Let me try that again, the room feels much more like that color.
I have had customers that wanted the ceiling the same color as the walls, but it was a dark color. I suggested to them that we use the same color (hue) but in a lighter shade. This has worked out very well. I just ask my paint store to cut the pigments equally. Of course, the exact shade is not entirely predictable, but the color has always been right.
-Don
White ceilings are pretty much "the norm" around here and it's usually a flat "ceiling" paint.
Lots of people are doing crown molding so they will often mix a little of their wall paint into the ceiling paint to give it a slight tint - then paint the crown with a gloss white (or some accent color)
I believe the adage is that lighter colored ceilings tend to make the room feel "open", while darker colors tend to make the room feel more "intimate" - whatever those terms mean...
Light colors also seem to amplify artificial lighting better...
We're using nearly-white ceilings with earth-tone wall colors and ipe flooring (which is rather dark). Hoping for a very refined contemporary look...
I think various shades add visual interest - particularly valuable when the more traditional trim (cornice, crown, rail) moldings are omitted...
Just my 2c...
I've done 2 rooms with the ceiling a different colour. The Morocco room has a very red ceiling, walls an orangey/peach & certain other parts a chocolate brown. I think it looks great but then the ceiling is angular in different areas. The 2nd room is a typical older bedroom. Ceiling is a shade or 2 darker than the walls. The whole effect is like sleeping underwater, I like the feeling.The 3rd room will be the diningroom. One wall will be bloodred the other 3 walls & the ceiling will be a buttercream pale yellow called Antiquity.My house is 1926 tho, so the 8 ft ceiling is slightly over 8 ft. I don't think it would work as well w/a 7ft something ceiling.MS report. Fried dill pickles - what ARE they thinking?
when I paint ceilings a color, they are usually cut to 1/4 of the trim formula, or 1/4 the wall color or 1/4 the wallcovering background color
Typically, walls a color and the ceiling white. When I redo apartmnents and the walls are a light color the ceiling gets the same color. People want to spend as little as possible on apartment redos so no precise cutting on the wall ceiling line I can save them a few bucks since it saves me some time.
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I painted the ceilings in two bathrooms a dark color that I had left over from another job. I promised my wife I would paint them white if she did not like them. She loved the look. Both bathrooms had hanging lights and the feeling to me was that the ceiling was not there ... almost like being in a room with a very high ceiling. Guests using the half bath always made a comment about the unique feel to the room.
What ever the customer wants.
I've painted them semi-gloss, I've painted them blue, I've painted them grey, I've painted many flat white, too.
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