What colours are your ceilings?

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Fingers crossed, we'll be redecorating our new home soon (to keep me sane while we wait for an exchange date, I'm planning the refurb!).

There's no wallpaper anywhere so we'll be sticking with paint, and I'm kind of thinking of doing a magnolia job at first, at least until we've lived with the place for a while.

So - if you have magnolia walls, do you also have magnolia ceilings?

I've always had white ceilings/ doors/ woodwork in the past but recently have visited a couple of houses where the walls and ceilings are the same (pale) colour, and think I quite like it. It would also save all that faffing at the join of two colours too! What do you think?

Unless you live in Chatsworth, ceilings should always be white. That's the law.

Lala is right. It also makes the ceilings looks higher and the rooms bigger.

When we moved to this house, the lounge ceiling was mint green. I shot you not.

Ha ha ha! I shit you not

I like having the ceilings a bit darker. Some are cream, but we also have a couple of deep blue ceilings in bedrooms and a dusky blue in the spare room. Oh, and red in the office (this room is taller than it is wide).

Our ceilings are maybe 11ft and don't need to look higher!

Incidentally, most of our rooms have cornices, which are white.

Hmmm LadyEmma I wonder if you perhaps bought my mothers old house? In my teenage years I decided to make a feature of the ceiling and one wall by paining them mint green......

My 15 yr old self liked it and was sure a career in interior design lay ahead.

My slightly older self has white ceilings . I also decided that actually I am not very good at interior design .

Mine are all Classic Cream by Homebase. Is good.

Mine are all white except for the kitchen, where it is the same putty colour as the walls. It's a light room and I THINK this is ok, but when I repaint (hopefully soon) it will be reverting to white.

tis very old fashioned now to have white ceilings.

Oreocrumbs, I suppose it is always possible, but here the ceiling was mint green, with below the dado in mauve and above the dado in lilac. The hallway is still oxford blue and terracotta. It's all so, changing rooms circa 1995 idiosyncratic

Our ceilings are very high too Allpast and we have heavy cornices, but I prefer the white. Serant I am sure you're right, but I do live in a lovely Victorian house, so it seems a bit of a shame to paint them funny colours.

Oh, and I like white ceilings :)

Old fashioned yes, but also quite a good idea if you have low ceilings.

Can't have been mine then - a dado , even my 15 yr old self wasn't that bad! Although the other walls were purple shades .

F&B Pointing, all of them. Tis very calming!

F&B Wimborne White. Very calming is a good description.

Hmm. Ceilings aren't high. White it is, I guess. Humph.

NO NO NO to Magnolia ceilings!!! The previous owners of my house painted the walls and ceilings in magnolia and despite the rooms being big and ceilings being pretty high, it makes the house feel dark and dingey. We're in the process of restoring the ceilings to white and it is making an ENORMOUS difference - so much brighter/cleaner. DO NOT DO IT!!! I can see that a more white colour (but not white, iyswim) might be ok but magnolia has too much orangey tint to it to work.

almost white, but not pbw

It looks perfectly white until you hold a piece of paper next to it.

Dulux Supermatt Trade White. I think ceilings should always be white unless the room is too tall for its size, in which case a darker colour will help bring it down. Or if you live in a character cottage in which case creamier colours may be better.

Don't do magnolia, it will just look like discoloured white.

Dulux white cotton. A lovely off-white. It's my standard white paint for ceilings and woodwork - much nicer than bog standard brilliant white, and MUCH nicer than magnolia!

Looks at pine clad ceilings and despairs...

A magnolia ceiling will just look dirty.
I moved in with DH and that house had coloured ceilings. It was awful.

Peach, blue, green, a kind of grey/white. Dire.

White is the only way to go.

Almost white it is, then....

Does anyone have any good tips for how to get a clean line between the wall and ceiling?

once both are dry, with a half-inch brush, repaint the line on ceiling first, then wall.

If you paint a ceiling and it looks dirty, it will be old dirt and dust off the ceiling mixing into the paint. Let it dry and give it another coat. You can get quite a lot of dust off a ceiling by hoovering with a soft brush.

Edge brushes are great and so much easier for getting straight lines where the two colours meet. They are kind of angled and usually quite small.

A Slant Fitch is the proper tool, I use a sash brush though.

If you're buying one really good brush, compare a good one to a cheap one, it will have four times as many bristles (!) and will hold its shape, so clean it well and make it last.

I've always used Hamilton Perfection, but the pros tell me the new synthetic Purdeys are better.

You will have to go to a proper decorating shop.