Homeowners sometimes neglect their ceilings during remodeling or renovation. Direct attention to your ceiling and visually expand the height of your space by adding color to the ceiling. Instead of painting the ceiling white, try adding a splash of color or a design to improve the ambiance and enhance the look of a drab room. You can paint directly on the ceiling or use painted ceiling tiles.
Instructions
Painting Patterns
1. Paint the entire ceiling the base color with a paint roller and allow it to dry.
2. Draw the desired pattern on the ceiling with a pencil. If you are working with an elaborate design, use scaffolding instead of a ladder to avoid neck strain. If you are painting patterns like blocks or circles, draw the circles or squares on a piece of cardboard and use a pair of scissors to cut out the patterns. Place the cardboard patterns on the ceiling and trace around them. Use masking tape to tape around the edges of the designs.
3. Paint the patterns the desired colors and allow it to dry. Remove the masking tape.
Painting Clouds
4. Paint the areas of the ceiling sky blue around the areas where you will paint clouds with a paintbrush. This does not have to be exact, as clouds are not perfectly shaped or uniformly sized.
5. Apply pale blue paint to form the edges of the clouds. Push the paint across the ceiling by pressing the bristles of the paintbrush against the ceiling firmly to create indistinct edges on the clouds. Avoid painting the edges of the clouds as lines, as it will look unnatural.
6. Paint the center of the blank areas white. Push the paint toward the pale blue edges, swirling the brush to give the clouds a billowing shape.
Painted Ceiling Tiles
7. Purchase paintable ceiling tiles with an attractive pattern to add dimension to the ceiling.
8. Paint the tiles in a contrasting color with a paintbrush or roller to brighten a room with neutral colors. Paint the tiles a color several shades lighter than the walls if you've used bright colors in the room.
9. Place the painted tiles on the ceiling as directed by the manufacturer's instructions included with the tiles.
