Would you paint your ceiling in a colour other than white?

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All our ceilings are white but just musing really (and not sure I can be arsed with the faffery of painting a ceiling).

If yours is a different colour, do you love it?

Yes! I did a pink in our snug, the walls are a lovely dark green and the pink makes it fab, a then some gold light fixtures !
do it x

@Sylviebearthese are my bedroom colours and that sounds fab.

White ceilings suggest you have no imagination and no knowledge of interior design principles.

Hardly any are white. Some colour drenched, some contrasting, some complimentary. White ceilings are pretty boring!

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Made up bollocks.

Or low ceilings and poor eyesight.

I've had coloured ceilings since I moved to this house 19 years ago. Sage green in the dining room, a muted duck-egg blue in the living room. But they are high ceilings with cornicing (white).

Recently painted our bedroom a dark blue- love it- and the white ceiling & cornice looks fantastic, so it works too.

DS has a blue-grey ceiling and sunset yellow walls. He loved them so much in our last house, he asked for us to copy in our new house. It’s cosy, he had a north-facing bedroom and the colour warms it up a bit.

This photo is not his room but very similar colours.

Yes, in my living room the walls and ceiling are the same colour, which is a soft sage green. The bloke who did the whole room renovation suggested it would look nicer, and he was right.

I mulled it over for my hallway which is a blush pink on the walls, was thinking of a very light sky blue, but didn't in the end as DH has opinions that differ from mine so white is the compromise.

Our living room has a high vaulted ceiling and is painted in F&B Railings. It is a light bright room with lots of windows so can handle it.

I am about to paint DDs room and it will be colour drenched as the colour she has chosen is an off white, so woodwork and ceiling need to match walls.

Crisp white all the time.
You can only muck about with coloured ceilings if your house is amazing and really well designed.
I bought a house last year and I'm just about to paint the one ceiling in the house that is painted a different colour than white. It's like a darker version of 'elephant's breath' or something like it and it's awful... so dull and sad and it darkens an otherwise beautiful room. It's also a pain in the ass to paint over. It will take more than a couple of coats, for sure (I think it will take about four, which I am dreading). White just future proofs everything and is so much easier to refresh.

Yes, I should have added that ours are colour-drenched too. We first did this 10+ years ago at a previous house that had very high ceilings where it looked fabulous to have everything the same colour. I'd been inspired by a Georgian interior I'd seen.

At our last house (a 400 year old mill), the ceilings were lower but upstairs they curved down to meet the walls so it was hard to know where the walls ended and ceiling started. The obvious solution was to colour drench again - our main bathroom, for example, was F&B Setting Plaster estate emulsion which looked lovely.

We've now downsized to a Georgian cottage and are colour-drenching every room - one of the main reasons here is that it makes smaller spaces appear larger imo.

Recently I saw this method of painting described by someone extremely knowledgeable in the art of interiors as 'the French way' of decorating.

I'd never go back to white ceilings now!

The French wallpaper their doors.

Agree with a PP that this probably works best in interiors magazines level of homes.

You can only muck about with coloured ceilings if your house is amazing and really well designed.

I agree. We once had to paint over a green ceiling. It took three coats of paint. It lightened the room considerably.

@Unprecedentedusername Yesterday 22:19
White ceilings suggest you have no imagination and no knowledge of interior design principles.

Most of us don't live in the kind of house that @DorisTheFinkasaurus describes.

Imagine coming onto a thread like this , something so innocuous and deciding you’d try to be offensive. 😱

Ha! We wallpapered a couple of doors in the (Victorian) house we lived in between 1997-2007 😆 We had a very 'gothick' styled dining room and found some amazing burgundy/blue wallpaper for the doors. The walls were Farrow & Ball Oval Room Blue (our first foray into using 'designer' paint!), I hand-painted an arched border at ceiling height and we had a red 'Turkey' carpet.

We moved to a house where one of the bedrooms was dark teal including the ceiling. It looked really nice but was too dark in there for me to read easily. Same for the lounge in that house which was dark purple/brown - looked really nice and was cosy for watching TV but too dark for reading.

Yes, I have done, and the woodwork/doors. However in this house I love the contrast of the clean white skirting and ceiling with the walls.

I have an aunt with very high ceilings. In the big rooms, the ceilings are a colour, then down to a high picture rail, and the walls off white. Looks ace.

Yes right now i have a gray living room, white one hallway and kitchin, pale gray bathroom,
Purple redish bedroom.

Yes - walls are a lovely slate gray-blue and the ceiling is a lighter shade of the same color. The ceiling has a white crown moulding around it, which really makes the colors look nice. (I’m in the States, not sure if you call “crown moulding” something else across the pond.)

In my childhood home (which is next door) my childhood bedroom ceiling is a pale cream while the walls are pale yellow. (The room has been repurposed, but they didn’t repaint it.)

Both are quite lovely!

We had a dark green one & that wasn't great.

But the light blue ones are lovely.

I don’t like bright white on ceilings. It kills a lot of other colours. It’s nice to paint the whole room the same colour, or use a complementary white on the ceiling, F&B style. and obviously choose a good colour for the aspect, size, style and use of the room!

Yes, in our bedroom the ceiling and walls are painted the same colour.

The living room ceiling and down to the picture rail are pale pink, the walls are white, but due to pictures, a bookcase and windows on three sides there isn’t a great deal of wall visible.