Not only did he choose an eye popping checked wallpaper but he outlined all the angles with navy blue cording. This attic bedroom was designed by Mark Sikes. Let’s face it, no matter how you choose to deal with wallpapering or painting angled walls and sloped ceilings, they are not going to go away. Embrace the angles and slopes and make it the focal point of the room Painting out all the angles, ceiling and walls in one rich color, Jeffrey gave the room the feeling of a warm, cozy sanctuary. The master dressing room below, featured at the recent pasadena showhouse, was designed by my friend Jeffrey Johnson. The bedroom has deep angled walls yet by wrapping the whole room in one light color, the angles become less pronounced and the room expands.ĭon’t assume you are limited to using white or a very light color to wrap the entire room. It will make all the oddities disappear.”Ĭheck out this room by designer Maia Roffey of Black Sheep Interior Design. Use the same paint or paper on every surface. “If your space has odd angles dormers, or unsettling beams, wrap the entire room in color. Many designers like this option the best. Treat wall and ceiling as one and paint or wallpaper the entire space This brings me to the second way to paint or wallpaper a room with angled walls and sloped ceilings. In the room below the “landing strip” feel would be even more pronounced had the walls been any darker. You don’t want to end up with a room that looks like there is a white racing stripe or landing strip running down the center of the room. AFTERĪnother situation where a white ceiling might not be the right choice is if your room has a long narrow ceiling. By painting out everything one color, the sharp angles and various shapes blend into one another.The room now feels less choppy and chaotic. The dark walls and white ceiling act to accentuate the sharp angles in the room because of the large difference in color value. You can see how choppy this ceiling looks. BEFOREĭesigner Carla Aston sent me two photos to use in this post. Also, a bright white ceiling on top of dark walls will give your room the appearance that it is wearing a big white top hat. In other words, if you paint the walls in a dark color and paint the ceiling white, the high contrast between walls and ceiling will cause the room to feel even more choppy. When painting the ceiling a different color from the walls in an angled room, keep the walls and ceiling similar in color value. Pro Tip: Stay away from high contrast between walls and ceiling when painting or papering rooms with angles This visually expands the bathroom as there is no jaring white ceiling. I love that Christine chose a light blue for the ceiling that blends into the wallpaper. In the photo below, designer Christine Morrison Kohut covered the angled wall with paper and painted the flat ceiling. Wallpaper all the angled walls, leaving the flat ceiling for paint. The same rule applies to wallpaper if you want a painted ceiling. Painting the walls grey and the ceiling white, is a perfectly good option because there is plenty of flat ceiling in the room.Visually, the ceiling reads as “ceiling”. In the image below, my friend Kelly Rogers of Kelly Rogers Interiors painted the whole room a soft green grey and painted the ceiling white. How to treat the two is another question altogether. If it’s horizontal and flat, it’s ceiling. So that answers the wall vs.ceiling question. The instructor said “everything should be treated as wall except what is completely flat”. One lesson has stayed with me from the very first color consulting class ever I took. Paint everything wall color except the flat ceiling A question I get asked over and over is “should I paint this wall or ceiling color?” Or, “where should the wallpaper end”?īelow are three different options to deal with wallpapering and painting angle walls and sloped ceilings. For many homeowners it’s confusing to know where the wall ends and the ceiling begins. Since this was a popular post, I decided to update it and add in all new photos.Ĭhoosing the right wallpaper or paint color is only one challenge in a room with angled walls and sloped ceilings. I assume that the images had been corrupted during one of the transfers from the old website to the new one. That blog post was written two websites ago. I looked back and sure enough they had disappeared. She was about to start a painting project and wanted to read my post but all the photos were missing. It was titled, Wallpapering and Painting angled walls and sloped ceilings. I received a call this week from a woman telling me she had found a blog post of mine from 2012.
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