Paint and ceiling will be at odds...
I'm in the midst of a house project-- painting everything, ditching the nasty carpet and putting Pergo like faux-wood floors in and putting slate in place of the horribly outdated brown and gold 70s tile around our woodstove. Many of the changes are decidedly unsaucy in terms of general funkiness-- we're doing a very natural look in the great room to emphasize the forest seen through the huge picture windows.
Our bedroom, however, is very shady and we use it mostly for sleeping and reading, so we're happy with emphasizing that cozy cave feeling it already has. We're doing a very deep indigo color on the walls, and then we'll stencil in a regular pattern all over the walls a kind of starburst in a slightly darker tone on tone, with a translucent iridescent silver in the center. It's right out of a book we got, which I don't usually do, but it's so damn cool that I feel in love. It kind of has a star/moon feeling to it without being a specific entity.
My problem is this-- the ceiling is that acoustic popcorn stuff. We've done some research, and it almost certainly contains asbestos, so removing it ourselves isn't an option. Painting it isn't an option either right now, as it has to be done with a sprayer, and since the popcorn sucks up paint like a dry sponge, it takes approximately seven times the amount of paint that it would to cover a similar area on a wall (this info. from a professional painter friend and from friends who have painted their popcorn ceilings), and I've pretty much maxed out what I'm able to spend on the house right now. So that leaves me with ultimately cool indigo walls and a dingy white popcorn ceiling. Do you think that's going to look atrocious? Long term I'd like to either paint it or at least tack some dark burlap up, but in the meantime is my cool paint job going to be upstaged by the popcorn?
The good news is that the room is dark enough that the popcorn will almost always be bathed in cool shade, and while there is currently a ceiling light fixture, it suffers from total tackiness and the commonly associated disuse, so no external factors will draw attention to the ceiling.
I thank you for your thoughts!
Our bedroom, however, is very shady and we use it mostly for sleeping and reading, so we're happy with emphasizing that cozy cave feeling it already has. We're doing a very deep indigo color on the walls, and then we'll stencil in a regular pattern all over the walls a kind of starburst in a slightly darker tone on tone, with a translucent iridescent silver in the center. It's right out of a book we got, which I don't usually do, but it's so damn cool that I feel in love. It kind of has a star/moon feeling to it without being a specific entity.
My problem is this-- the ceiling is that acoustic popcorn stuff. We've done some research, and it almost certainly contains asbestos, so removing it ourselves isn't an option. Painting it isn't an option either right now, as it has to be done with a sprayer, and since the popcorn sucks up paint like a dry sponge, it takes approximately seven times the amount of paint that it would to cover a similar area on a wall (this info. from a professional painter friend and from friends who have painted their popcorn ceilings), and I've pretty much maxed out what I'm able to spend on the house right now. So that leaves me with ultimately cool indigo walls and a dingy white popcorn ceiling. Do you think that's going to look atrocious? Long term I'd like to either paint it or at least tack some dark burlap up, but in the meantime is my cool paint job going to be upstaged by the popcorn?
The good news is that the room is dark enough that the popcorn will almost always be bathed in cool shade, and while there is currently a ceiling light fixture, it suffers from total tackiness and the commonly associated disuse, so no external factors will draw attention to the ceiling.
I thank you for your thoughts!