How To Paint Basement Ceiling White
Painting the ceiling a color can make a small room seem bigger or a room with a high ceiling seem more intimate.
How to paint basement ceiling white. This guest post on how to paint a basement ceiling with exposed joists comes from a reader and friend of one project closer chuck williams. Dry fall paint will ensure proper adhesion to the ceiling surfaces. You may not want to paint your ceiling yellow but don t be afraid to deviate from plain old white.
Neither a finished drywall ceiling nor a drop ceiling were in our overall budget for the basement. Plus drywalling ceiling involve a lot more work and neck aches. Plus it s just more interesting.
I used benjamin moore white dove for our exposed ceiling in the basement. We did framing and electrical ourselves but we hired out the drywall. Painting a basement ceiling black or a dark color will give the ceiling a more endless appearance like that of a dark sky.
Our quote for the ceiling alone was thousands of dollars. To leave access to pipes. Diy home and modern motherhood 6 190 views.
However black or a dark color will cause the basement area to have a darker appearance. During my efforts to upgrade my unfinished basement i wanted an alternative to the typical acoustic tile drop ceiling or drywall ceiling. Fred told me of his tentative plans to paint his open.
It is more noticeable when you have a exposed basement ceiling painted white. This entire ceiling was painted using a sprayer in about 3 hours with breaks between to let paint dry drywall would have taken days to finish. Ask at any full service paint store for help in choosing complementary wall and ceiling colors or.