Painting textured ceilings

Emily and Shane hated their textured ceilings, but felt stuck with them because they weren’t ready to deal with the mess and trauma of drywalling. Finally, they just couldn’t take any more of those ceilings, “staring down at us,” so they took a gamble on another option, and boy, did it pay off. They covered it with beadboard! What a great way to give the ceiling a beautifully coffered look with surprisingly little effort and money.

To paraphrase Rihanna, we all want to shine bright like a diamond. But your ceiling? Not so much. When it comes to painting a ceiling, things can get a bit more complicated than when you typically take a brush to the wall. For some help in avoiding major mistakes, I turned to Kate Ziegler, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker Lifestyles in New London, New Hampshire and Arborview Realty in Boston.

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