If you’ve painted your ceiling the same colour as the walls…

[FlouncingBabooshka]

Are you pleased you did it?

Did the room feel larger or smaller as a result? I keep reading that it will trick the eye into thinking the ceiling is higher as it can’t readily detect where the walls end and the ceiling starts. But then other articles suggest the opposite - that it will visually lower the ceiling and make the room feel smaller.

Interested to hear from anyone who’s done this.

Thanks.

@givememarmite thank you! This is exactly the post I needed to see!

👍🏼 let us know how it goes! Sure you'll love it too!

I've done it in every room of my house in calico except bathroom which is all a taupe shade.
Once you've done it all you can see is how much white ceilings clash with the walls in others houses and looks awful.
Go for it. So much easier to paint as well.

The house we're buying has a kitchen with walls and ceilings painted dark grey...feels like a cave!! So I'd say it definitely depends on the colour!!

*TangoWhiskyAlphaTango

Here's my bedroom. All f&b copy (cornforth white) except the floor.

Is the ceiling the same colour as the walls here? It looks much lighter.*

I agree, the ceiling looks a completely different colour in both those pics

Doing this in our (small!) hall stairs and landing at the moment. Love it! Avoids so much awkward cutting in and the difference in the way light hits a horizontal or vertical surface makes it seem like different shades. We've used Dulux tranquil dawn so it's not a hugely light colour but it works really well.

We did in a hallway. It's a light colour and it looks good.

My spouse and I painted the short walls and the ceiling one colour and the long walls a brighter colour for our bedroom. I'm not sure about raising or lower, but I really like the continuation of the colour basically over the bed from behind the bedboard to the end of the room. The colour does look different depending on which surface and how the lights are hitting it.

Once you've done it all you can see is how much white ceilings clash with the walls in others houses and looks awful.

How can a white ceiling clash with anything? Does white woodwork clash aswell?

Our kitchen is like this and I hate it! Despite it being a large, light room with 3.5 metre ceilings it makes it feel like being in a coffin. Our Living room had the ceilings and the walls down to the cornicing painted one colour and the rest of the walls another, lighter colour. I much prefer this!

How can a white ceiling clash with anything? Does white woodwork clash aswell?

The current view - and I subscribe to this - is that painting ceilings and woodwork white when the rest of the walls are another colour (particularly a dark colour) essentially acts as an outline of the edges of the room. If they are done in the same colour, or a less starkly contrasting one, the lines are less obvious and the room looks more harmonious.

Basically though, painting these surfaces in pretty much anything other than white says you've actively thought about what colour you want for them, that you've fully considered the room. Pure white is the default, but why does it need to be?

I really like walls and ceiling matching with a white cornice... think it looks like a sofisticated older room rather than modern - I'm doing my two main living areas differently in my current reno

We did and I personally love it. I don't think it makes it feel any smaller.

I think it might work with lighter colours but I really don't like the darker colours on the ceiling. Looks very claustrophobic to me.

A white ceiling and woodwork can definitely clash with wall treatments. When I was a child my Mum chose a Laura Ashley ditsy print wallpaper for my bedroom with a cream background. I insisted on having cream woodwork to match, I was not an indulged child so clearly my Mum agreed.

I can see that painting the woodwork to match wallpaper makes sense and I can also see complementary woodwork working with dark colours.
However I do think that white woodwork works best with light colours, especially in a period house with deep skirting boards/cornicing.

However I do think that white woodwork works best with light colours, especially in a period house with deep skirting boards/cornicing.

I do like white woodwork but it's still just fashion, the Victorians liked their woodwork painted dark colours.

@FlouncingBabooshka

I have bedroom envy *@TangoWhiskyAlphaTango* - beautiful room.

The colour for our walls is Peignoir. Wondering how dark it will read on a ceiling.

We painted the living room in Peignoir in the house we just moved out of, it's such a beautiful colour and the only regret I had about how we decorated that house was that we didn't paint the living room ceiling to match the walls. If we ever find a new place to buy the new living room will be floor to ceiling Peignoir

I do like white woodwork but it's still just fashion, the Victorians liked their woodwork painted dark colours.

Yes, with traditional dark Victorian colours on the walls. But in a pale/neutrally painted room, white shows period features better imo

I have done this in a cottage bedroom - sloping low ceiling . Room looks larger

I did it in all my parents bathrooms, 2 of them have v low ceilings, the floor and tiling make a big impact.

Toilet is dark green, weirdly big for a downstairs loo, low ceiling and not great light. The only tiles are on the floor and half one wall, white marble. Always going to feel a bit cave like so I rolled with it, it's a very cold room and the green warms it a little.

Family bathroom, even lower ceiling brighter light, spacious. Lower half tiled with white marble and upper half painted light blue. When I did the first coat I left the ceiling white but really didn't like the white with a band of blue look and the ceiling was very obviously 2 inches above your head.

En suite, higher ceiling but not grand, small room. "Fuck it that ceiling's going the same colour too" it's a dark blue/green.

@WhyMeLord - good to know, thank you (you could still paint your ceiling now of course - go on, you know you want to )

Also good to hear @grannycake and @olderthanyouthink’s experiences - especially as we’re committed now!

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to offer advice.

[quote FlouncingBabooshka]@WhyMeLord - good to know, thank you (you could still paint your ceiling now of course - go on, you know you want to )

Also good to hear @grannycake and @olderthanyouthink’s experiences - especially as we’re committed now!

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to offer advice.[/quote]
That would involve breaking in under cover of darkness - we completed the sale back in February. I think the police would be very understanding when they saw the finished result though 😂

@WhyMeLord 😂😂😂 I’d completely missed that you said you’d moved out!