Your Opinion On Ceiling Color For Visually Raising Or Lowering Effect

Mike Finley

Does a light or dark colored ceiling make it look higher or lower ?

Danahy

Light raises it up, dark brings it down.

slickshift

It depends




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Brushslingers

a two inch stripe of color at the top of the wall will make the ceiling appear higher... colored ceilings really don't look all that high on thier own. For the most part, ceilings are painted white for light reflection.

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Danahy

Technically speaking white ceilings make it seem higher, the side effect is that it also shrinks the room down.

Teetorbilt

I have seen ceilings painted light shades but white is predominate by a long shot.

Some of the new 'Tuscan' homes are painting the ceilings the same as the walls and using trim to frame it. I guess it's great if you happen to be from Tuscany.

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ProWallGuy

I agree.

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Danahy

I will colour a ceiling typically if the room has no windows in it, the ceilings are lower than usual, or if the corners along the ceilings are crap. Nothing worse than bringing even more attention to that.

Exroadog

Did some jobs for a designer in her home and had the ceilings all tinted (usually 1/4 tint of wall color) and the reason she gave was to "lower" the ceilings.

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LennyV-NHSNOLA

A border 2" down from the ceiling with the top 2" of the wall and ceiling being white will fix the crappy corner tape/float job (or at least make it less obvious)... or the old fix of crown molding which covers the crappy corners and adds value. And it's something else to have to paint so it increases the job value this time and on future re-paints for yourself or another painter.

Mike Finley

Here are some details. Doing this kitchen remodel and the ceiling that leads into it is already connected to other ceilings in the house and is off white, (sort of, kind of a bit darker than off white). The walls leading into the kitchen are a dark tan.

Figured I would wrap the dark tan around into the kitchen walls...

question is - I need to bring the current ceiling color into the new kitchen, I could just bring the off white celing through out the entire ceiling of the kitchen (up to the soffit and the soffit itself), or I could just bring the off white color up to the soffit (soffit is only about 4"), then do the soffit ceiling in another color to maybe make a statement with it, probably just use the wall color up onto the ceiling soffit portion.

What do you think? Good, bad, ideas?

ProWallGuy

Ask her.

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slickshift

IMO the new ceiling and soffit should be the same color as the connected (connecting?) part of the ceiling
Dark/light/white...don't matter
A line like that will look bad

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Mike Finley

What line?

Danahy

I think the soffit & the ceiling directly over the cupboards part would look good as the wall colour. The ceiling that connects to the main ceiling keep the same colour as the rest. Carrying the dark tan through the kitchen as well.

You could also paint all of the ceilings the same colour, which will hide the soffit alltogether. Personally, I think it would be neat bringing attention to it though...

imo.

slickshift

Where the off-white ceiling and the soffit ceiling meet

Perhaps I'm picturing it wrong, but I would think that would create a visual line that IMO would be undesirable

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Joewho

I think the main ceiling and kitchen ceiling should be the same.

The 4" drop should be the wall color. It draws attention to it, but not too much. If a wall or two in the kitchen is going to be the darker color, having the 4" face the same color will help the visual transition. It's vertical, like a wall.

Drawing attention this way will balance both rooms instead of making just the kitchen stand out. At least that's my humble opinion.

Danahy

Mike, is it possible that you repost that same picture, coloured in with your different choices? Then perhaps a vote on which one wins...?

I'll try to post 3 versions... Perhaps someone more techie than I would make it look better...

Danahy

I apologize in advance for my colouring skills... honestly I can paint.

Danahy

Option 2