Highly versatile, durable, covers in 2 coats and looks great – this should be your go-to bathroom ceiling paint. The painted ceiling in this contemporary and artistic living room gives an unexpected splash of fun that contrasts with the space’s monochromatic colours and square geometric elements. The pendant light’s tangled appearance effectively represents the clashing hues. Of course, to set off the dark shades of your room, you’ll want to focus on furniture and decoration. Great! Bold colours on the ceiling enliven a room while creating visual interest and contrast. Consider matching yellows, greens or blues with a feature wall or to perfectly offset white walls. Colour on the ceiling acts to bring intimacy to a large space, adds instant character and it’s also an easy way to harmonise a colour scheme. For example, use the shade on your ceiling as a base for pops of a similar colour throughout your home.

When it comes to overall quality and value for money, anti-condensation paints don’t get much better than Ronseal. As you can probably tell, there are plenty of options on the market and the best ceiling paint for bathrooms very much depends on your personal situation. Suitable for almost any bathroom environment, Crown Trade Acrylic Eggshell covers like a dream with its 16m2/L spreading rate with most jobs completed in just 2 coats unlike some other bathroom ceiling paints that can take up to 5 coats to fully cover some ceilings. Like Crown Acrylic Eggshell, this eggshell paint is perfect for bathroom ceilings with its robust defence against moisture and water stains.This is a legitimate question that a lot of people are concerned with when they think about painting their ceiling a darker color. The design myth that’s been going around for as long as I can remember is that dark paint colors tend to make rooms appear smaller. It’s perfectly ok to use normal ceiling paint in the bathroom but it’s worth considering how well-ventilated your bathroom is before using this option. If your bathroom is well-ventilated and doesn’t suffer from steam or condensation issues then you can go ahead and use normal ceiling paint in your bathroom. I only did one coat on this project, because we didn’t feel like anyone was going to be looking super closely to notice any drips, so I wasn’t afraid to go somewhat heavy on it. Ready to start? First up, clear your room and lay down drop sheets to protect the floor. If you have furniture that you can’t move, push it into the middle of the room and cover it with a sheet. If it’s possible to remove parts of any fixtures, like elaborate light fittings, do this too. Have all your tools within easy reach, pop on your favourite music and get set to make your ceiling shine.

In terms of aesthetics, this anti condensation paint has a clean, white matt finish which in itself is a look worth keeping. Of course, if you wanted a particular colour scheme you could always paint over it with a different coloured emulsion of your choice. If that’s the case, you don’t need to worry as the anti condensation paint continues to work as promised.

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First up, we have an old house, which means the ceiling height in the basement is quite low. While it might not seem like much, adding drywall would lower the lowest point of the ceiling about an inch. By leaving it open, we not only have the actual extra height, but it feels even higher because of the up and down of the floor joists (does that make sense?). 2. Accessibility Let me start by saying that I am obsessed with my paint sprayer. It’s been the gift that keeps on giving and gives me crazy ideas that I can probably paint the exterior of our house by myself, right?? So you’re considering going for it, but now you have all the questions and you’d like to see some inspiration before you take the plunge, am I right? We’re taking a bit of break from this project at the moment, just to focus on the bathroom and outdoors, but we’re getting so close and I can’t wait to see it all come together! Update March 2022: Frequently Asked Questions About our Basement Ceiling