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Advice on blue ceiling please

11 years ago

I'm planning to repaint our living room sometime soon, and looking at colors. Due to husband's input, I'm thinking a pretty tame color like SW Whole Wheat on the walls, but, I keep thinking about painting the ceiling a pale blue.

The room is long and narrow, with 8' ceilings, and white trim. I do not have crown molding, and that is one of my concerns. Almost all the pics I've seen of rooms with blue ceilings have either crown molding, tray ceilings, coffered ceilings, or beams and beadboard. Mine has no architectural detail. My other concern is that my ceiling has knockdown texture (very common in my area of the country), and I think it might look strange painted a color other than white.

Any thoughts or opinions?

Comments (13)

  • 11 years ago

    Thank you Foxes! That looks great! Maybe it will be ok in my house.

    Isn't that the ceiling you painted black? I loved that too.

    jlc712 thanked jlc712
  • 11 years ago

    I love my blue ceiling in my bathroom. Probably not the exact shade I'd use if I had to do it all over again but I'd still use blue.



    jlc712 thanked monicakm_gw
  • 11 years ago

    I think you could definitely do it. Make sure that you do a sample first so you know the colors go well together and that the lighting works with the colors. I once had a beige room which was huge and not cozy (nine foot ceilings). I painted the ceilings a dark gray green and it was fabulous. I did have crown and my ceiling had a type of swirly texture. I always find doing something with the ceiling very interesting and unexpected. Make sure and keep us posted!

    jlc712 thanked amykath
  • 11 years ago

    Love painted ceilings....I think I only have one white ceiling in my house.

    jlc712 thanked Annie Deighnaugh
  • 11 years ago

    I was just playing on SW color visualizer and used your wall color with several blues. It looked great! You should go and play around with it. Maybe upload your photo.

    jlc712 thanked amykath
  • 11 years ago

    Yes that is the ceiling that I painted black after the blue.

    Does anyone remember the GW member who built her home and then used EK paint throughout? I ask because EK mixed a special color for her. Think it may have been the DR area and the walls were a rich camel color and the ceiling was done in a beautiful blue. One of those colors was the special mix. It was divine!

    jlc712 thanked the_foxes_pad
  • 11 years ago

    Hi foxes pad. Was it Demi? It seemed like the walls were cognac or something. And there was Amy, whose walls were Amy's Sarasota Sand. I don't remember the ceiling though.

    jlc712 thanked indygo
  • 11 years ago
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    I had BM grey wisp on my ceiling in previous bedroom and it looked great! (but they were smooth and we had crown) my ceiling in current bedroom is blue too, but it's the same color as the walls... i think a color on the ceiling is usually much nicer than plain white! :)

    i have never had a textured ceiling tho--- I would make sure the paint was matte without any sheen to it.

    jlc712 thanked busybee3
  • 11 years ago

    I have a 20% Yarmouth Blue ceiling.

    For those of you with colored ceilings, how do you handle different wall paints: Is the ceiling then different accordingly, too, or do you have the same color through all rooms?


    jlc712 thanked nosoccermom
  • 11 years ago

    Thanks everyone. At this point, I think my biggest concern is the textured ceiling. I could always add crown molding, but I don't want to redo the texture just so I can paint it blue :-)

  • 11 years ago

    I'd use a flat paint on the textured ceiling. Quite frankly, I don't see a reason why you can't have a colored textured ceiling. People paint those textured wallpaer ceilings in a color.


  • 11 years ago

    We have very pale yellow walls (Valspar's pina colade) and very pale blue ceilings (I forgot the name, but it's Valspar and then done with half the pigment to make it paler)

    In our previous house, all the ceilings were a pale blue.