Ceeeeeeilings, oh, oh, my lovin' ceilings...

[feng_shui_house]

Finally painted the ceiling in my computer room. It's only 10 ft square, but so loaded with stuff it took an hour to clear out enough stuff to work & to drape everything else. *sigh* After the paint dried I see some places where I didn't put it on thick enough to cover. With the magic pink paint I know I painted all of it, but I have to remember to keep the roller full of paint. Oh, well, tomorrow's another work day & I can patch it then. Have 2 HUGE (by my standards) ceilings to paint, but those rooms have far less clutter, so less prep work.

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[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Painting ceilings is not fun. OH has done the section over the stairs, he's taken some annual leave so that we can get finished.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I *always* have to go back over and patch missed spots. It's annoying, and I'm always too lazy to redrape, so I'm going to have to scrub floors later. Much later. I think white paint dots on the floor add to the ambiance, don't you?

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

At least we're only painting white ceilings white to refresh them. Last time (17 years ago) they had to be papered first. This evening while both of us are here we're going to put up the long drops of wall paper down the stairs. The longest is 14ft (~4m)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

You paper ceilings? I've never heard of anyone doing that. Ours are all plastered.

I had to do work on mine to fix them before painting, but that was filling in cracks with spackling, texturing to match with a sponge & painting with Kilz over water stains. It's amazing how bad they were and I didn't quite realize until I started to fix them.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

You paper ceilings?

Yes. You can have textured ceilings, but they're less popular now because they are permanent and believed to contain asbestos. We use a blown vinyl paper, it covers a multitude of sins.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I didn't read too much of that, but it sounded a lot different- you're putting a texture over some sort of material, ours (in my area, at least) are mostly plasterboard (gypsum between cardboard, basically). The 'modern' way is to leave it smooth, and that's what they did when they put up the new ceilings, but the old way was to go over them with plaster & texture it with big sponges, I think.

I like the look of the textured better, but it takes a LOT more paint to cover.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

New ceilings just get a coat of paint over the plaster, but that's because the boards are smooth and flat. Older houses need more covering.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

*sigh* We all lose our smooth and flat as we get older and need to cover up more. :^)