Let Houzz find the best pros for you. Find Pros. In this example, you can see that the walls and ceiling are all the same white shade, carrying just a hint of creamy warmth. Using one shade for the walls and the ceiling deemphasizes the points where different surfaces meet and puts the visual emphasis on other features such as furnishings, architectural elements and art.
This holds true even if there are bright white moldings breaking up the walls and ceiling. The ceiling still blends away and the eye is better able to take in the moldings.
Overall, using the same pale neutral for the walls and ceiling gives a sense of serenity and welcome, especially when used throughout the entire home for a sense of continuity. However, the richer the color you choose, the more it can begin to shrink the space when applied to the ceiling.
See 11 tricks to make your ceiling look taller. There are a few ways to approach this. One is to literally pour a little bit of the wall paint into a can of white ceiling paint, stir thoroughly and use this as the new tinted shade. However, that method has a few issues. On first try it will likely be either barely tinted or too dark, and it can take a lot of remixing to get it right. The better option is to choose a pale color from the same family, often the palest option on the same paint chip.
For bold hues, you may not be able to simply choose an off-white from the same paint chip. But you can speak with a design professional or knowledgeable paint store associate to create a custom formulation based on the tints going into your wall hue. Ceilings Darker Than the Walls The idea of tinting paints to match can work in reverse as well. In this dining room, the dark paint treatment in the ceiling cove highlights the architecture and makes the room feel more intimate.
The hue carries similar tones to ones found in the wallpaper, as well as the white trim color of the doors and moldings. The slightly warm trim shade was likely chosen from the same color family as the ceiling, at the same time, so no features subtly clash. Contrasting the walls in darkness, but not in color undertone, creates a very livable effect. Unfortunately, a truly neutral gray can be tricky to choose in the store. Often colors will look a bit purple, blue or brown when applied at home.
Ceilings as a True Accent Of course, sometimes a ceiling can be beautiful in a hue that completely contrasts with the walls. One is to swatch all of the colors being considered together as stripes on a long plank to see how shades look next to each other.
Starting with a recommended pairing from a paint line can help, but seeing the hues at home in your ambient light will reveal how they look together in real life. See the right way to test paint colors. By keeping these in timber, the ceiling becomes the focal point to the scheme. If you painted them white you would still have a contrasting effect but it wouldn't be the strong feature in the house that it currently is. Most of us do paint our ceilings white, or as I recommend, a white to go with your wall colour.
However in certain cases and for particular styles, a much darker tone or different colour can be used. In a room with very high ceilings, the addition of a matt black colour is stunning and I think really adds to the feel of the room below.
As the ceilings are high, the room is still light and airy but with added drama. Fans of Abigail Ahern will know that she loves dark colour palettes and will paint the ceiling the same as the walls. The effect of painting the ceiling white gives an airy feel to the room and ensures that it feels large and spacious, which is usually the feeling that we want to create.
By painting your ceiling a darker colour, it clearly has the effect of lowering the ceiling to create a very cosy, cocoon like space. You don't often see this treatment in interior schemes but it is a useful trick for commercial premises, particularly cafes and restaurants that you want to feel more intimate. Related: Manipulating a space with colour — lesson no. Related: How to work with a dark colour palette.
Think very carefully before painting a timber ceiling as it is very difficult to get the beauty of the timber back. This gorgeous kitchen design from Nicole Davis demonstrates the point perfectly — you wouldn't want to paint this. It does also show you how a darker treatment lowers the ceiling. The room would have a completely different feel with a white ceiling. It would be more airy but would have lost a lot of its character. I hope this has inspired you and also given you some useful background information for when you are considering the question — what colour do I paint my ceiling?
That's if you decide to paint it at all! I have lots of information in my FREE Resource Library so if you are planning a re-paint, renovation of a whole new build, you should check in here.
If you are still unsure about your colour decisions then you may like to take advantage of my online colour consultation service. You can find out all the details here. Love your quarter strength ideas. They did it! Thanks so much. Is this just me? Hi Steven In the image with the white walls and black ceiling, the height of the ceiling is high and generous and I think if this was in white, the same as the walls, the ceiling would appear higher. I think that it is just that the room is very generous to begin with.
However I think if you were actually in the room that the dark tone would make it appear smaller. This can be a very handy trick if you feel a space is too large which is why cafes and restaurants have dark ceilings to make them feel more intimate and welcoming. Hi Samantha this was really helpful! Do you think Natural White will look too cream on the ceilings? I would like a fresh and unfussy look. Or do you have another suggestion please? Love your blog! Good luck!
Hi Samantha We are renovating our kitchen. The cupboards will be two pack Dulux Natural White to match in with our existing wall colour which is wattyl feather white. What would be the best colour to paint our ceiling once we change down lights etc?
Btw, I love Navy and have had it in three kitchens over the years, this time I will have French Navy shelving in my butlers pantry. Hi Dot perhaps look at a sample of Wattyl Freesia as this is a nice light warm white that should go with your colours. Paint a small board and tack it up to the ceiling to see if you like the effect with your wall and cabinet colours.
Good luck Samantha. Hi Samantha, Your blog is a great resource, thank you! We have decided to paint the interior of our single story North face house in Snowy Mountain Quarter.
This include walls, trims and doors. Thank you in advance! Hi Craig once you opt for a quarter strength of a white for walls and trims etc. I always recommend you just continue this on the ceiling. Hi Samantha We are having polytec Blossom White cupboards and wondering which dulus white paint to use on walls, ceilings and skirting boards.
Originally I was going to paint the walls a brilliant white but now i think it will make the ceiling look darker due to the contrast. Before I painted my kitchen walls black, I painted other rooms increasingly darker shades of gray. Like any trend though, gray may have finally played out. Where do we go from here? And we can thank … IKEA? Think about it. Now we have access to design-forward furnishings and accessories that are financially plausible to replace every few years.
If you have a blue velvet couch for five years then you can change it. Not that this is necessarily a good thing, she added. Trendy accessories and the omni-present houseplants pop more against white, and the interior furnishings become the star. It also works without all the accessories.
McGarity points to the movement toward Marie Kondo and simplicity. A good test to see if you can live surrounded by white walls, McGarity said, is to head to a museum or gallery. If you fall into the love it camp, now the fun begins. There are several considerations, McGarity said. Because of course white is almost never pure white.
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