Hello there! If you are sure you want to tackle this job yourself, you will need an extension pole to screw your roller handle into, and a stepladder. This should get you close enough, although you don't mention the height of the ceilings.

A good way to do the edging is with a Mr. Long arm, which also will screw onto the extension pole. If you have never used a Mr. Long arm before, practise a bit. The only trick, really, is to not load too much paint on it.

It will be a rather messy job - you must wear goggles, and a baseball cap is also a good idea. Using painter's tape, protect the walls by hanging painter's poly plastic along the top edges of the walls so that you don't get drips and splatters on the walls.

This may seem like overkill, but I'm not a pro and I don't leave anything to chance! I have done this many times over the years, btw!

Thank you!!! I am having a professional do the job. I am really interested in where one colour starts and the other stops....ie: should I paint ceiling same colour as wall - if its a lighter colour or should ceiling be a variation of the wall colour etc? Your thoughts

Good morning, sylvmike, LOL well, you can pass along my instructions to your painter!

My personal inclination would be to do everything the same color IF the color,will be light. If you are doing a medium to dark color, then you should delineate the ceiling.

I can't see the whole ceiling, but if you are doing a more saturated color on the walls, then the "ceiling" part under that little arch, as well as the ceiling that isn't shown in the pic would be the wall color lightened by half. Or, do the ceiling white and you will never have to re-paint it!

thank you!! there are two rooms with these interesting ceilings...here is the picture of the one that I will be painting a greige for the office- so it will be light and think I should just paint it all out one colour.

What an interesting home you have, sylvmike! Congratulations, btw - I'm sure you are happy and excited to be enjoying this new home, and to be making it your own!

Yes, I think with light colors, it is a waste to differentiate wall and ceiling colors because you will have shadows at play, and doing all the work that color changes might have done.

Whatever light color you choose will look somewhat different on the ceiling anyway, so yes, keep it all the same color - and the painter will love you for it too!

Just out of curiosity, what colors do you plan to use in the two rooms?

I do see now that the original thinking was to consider those angled planes (so hard to describe what I mean here!) as part of the ceiling, rather than the wall. I don't know if I would have thought of that - and I'd be curious to see how it might have looked if they had considered them to be part of the wall instead.

If I don't get interrupted here, I might have a go at "painting" the room with the Sherwin-Williams app. I'll post it for you so you can see.

So, here is how the baby's room might have looked using the lower planes as part of the wall. Minus the lousy paint job!

I think their thinking was right in the room where they used the darker green, as it keeps the focus on the wonderful lines of the ceilings.

But if you are doing a lighter color, I would still say paint it all the same color.

Call me old fashion but I like white ceilings. Cut it at the trim or the corner but make sure they cut it real nice if there is no crown.