To think artex ceilings are not that bad

[Lardlizard]

Better than seeing cracks and imperfections as long as it’s a sort of random design not too swirly !

I find it funny that they're not viewed as original features in the same way fireplaces and tiles can be.

Each artex ceiling will have been handmade and they last a long time looking good condition. They're not like the cheap thin brown doors houses of that age were built with and they've mostly been replaced by now.

I don't particularly love them, but they're not offensive either, I can't imagine bothering to take them out.

And I do wonder if one day they will be seen as original features to cherish.

I don’t like or dislike them - I don’t think about any type ceiling really. I wouldn’t want to be the one doing it though, I can imagine it makes your arm a bit achey!

As long as its not fans! We had that in our old house, finally got a plasterer to skim it but once it was painted you could still see the bloody fans waving at you!

I dont mind them. Remember mum and dad having nearly every surface of out house artexed. Think theres only ceilings left now

Broken leather pattern is not too bad imo

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They collect dirt, are difficult to clean, and make rooms look smaller/ lower ceilinged IMO.

Isn’t it partly because they were often made with asbestos? So not really ideal...

Artex has asbestos in it

My parents had it everywhere including walls - bloody awful when you’ve got the stipple on your bedroom wall and don’t get me started on the “fingers” effect - the people who bought their house must have hated them

Finally got ours removed and skimmed in Feb, along with stripping the original vile anaglypta wallpaper (some are liveable, this was hideous) and skimming and painting all the walls. After 4 years living here, first time we could afford to do it though. We currently have no carpet down, no curtains or light fittings up, half the furniture still rammed in the kitchen (all refurb work having had to stop with lockdown) and I still prefer sitting in the lounge now to when it was in its original anaglypta and artex glory

It just made the room seem smaller, darker and oppressive. Maybe it’s not so bad in different houses/ rooms but it was making me utterly miserable here.

I don’t mind them but then again, I don’t mind anything much anymore. I shall be so happy to return to some sort of normality that crazy paving, fake stone cladding, bidets, bad haircuts, nylon clothing, clapped out cars, over stretched & see through leggings, poncy “artisan” food, ridiculous eyebrows, odd people and cheap, whit wine will all be welcomed with a smile 😃 I’m going to be Mrs Tolerant and laid back about “stuff” from now on! 😉

Horrific. I say this as I'm currently working through a house full of the stuff. 50% plastered 50% to go. There have been/are fans, swirls, bloody every pattern possible here.

My nan thinks it's gorgeous

I love them, genuinely think they add to character of 70/80s built houses. We have replastered the stairs at that had artex going up the wall which was painful and ugly but love the ceilings.

Ive never minded the basic sort of stipple effect on ceilings but realised when we moved house recently that all of our ceilings are just plain plaster and I much prefer them.

A relative of OH bought a house that had the solar system in artex covering all of their living room ceiling, they loved it..

We have had most of ours plastered over but still have broken leather on our bedroom ceiling which isn’t too bad. The fans were awful and the rooms looked so much lighter when they were gone.

They are on a long list of things that are not worth the monetary and environmental costs of changing just for the sake of fashion.

This means I will probably never sell my house as I will be regarded as a deluded/cf seller for not having "refurbished" everything but that's OK as I have no current plans to move.

We have stipple ceilings and a wall of puffy paper. Small 80s ex housing association and cant afford to remove it. That and horrible doors!

Hate it. And not many features from the 70s are worth keeping.
Ditto pebbledash.

I wonder if our children's generation will revive it all....

We had one in our house when we moved in, was hideous and we ripped it down straight away.

I'm looking at the artex ceiling of my 1980s house now... my dad painted it with a Matte white which makes it a bit less in your face I suppose.
If I had the money I'd have it skimmed my a plasterer.

I grew up in a house with artex ceilings everywhere and used to lie in my top bunk, following the swirly patterns round the room when I couldn’t sleep. Never really thought about the fact that modern houses don’t have it - I liked it!

Whoever decided to artex swirly stiff peaks on a kitchen ceiling though? That's silly surely? It collects grease. And dust.

Sorry I think they are ugly. I don’t think they will ever be considered an original feature worth saving.,