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Help with a skylight shaft

17 years ago

I need some help and hopefully inspiration on paint for the drywalled shaft leading up to the skylight in our master bath. Not sure if it should be the same color as the ceiling or the walls? Or get all crazy and paint it a 3rd color? The shaft leading up to it is about 1.5 feet long. Originally I was thinking of doing mosaic in that area but not so sure anymore. If you have any pics of how you've handled this, would be really appreciated. Thanks

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graywings123
17 years ago
No pics, but ours were the same color as the ceilings.
palimpsest
17 years ago
If you do it an anything but white, that will affect the guality of the light that comes in. If that doesn't bother you, then go for a color, but if you don't want the quality of light that comes into your green bathroom to be really green, for example...white is probably best.
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10 years ago
One of the walls in our skylight shaft is actually part of the vertical wall of a vaulted ceiling room. I'm having that wall painted same as lower walls to continue the upward flow. The other three, which true walls, will be white.

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