Take your child to the doctor’s office. While waiting for the doctor to enter the examination room, you look up. The ceiling is a beautiful and relaxing view of the ocean.
Now you’re staring at the ceiling wondering how to transform your bedroom and living room. Other rooms also come to mind, such as the kitchen and dining room.
The idea of changing the roof is not crazy. Updating the fifth wall can bring the entire room together. Without changing the entire place, you can change the look and feel of a room with just a fresh coat of vibrant paint.
Let’s have a rest
Are you tired of lying on your bed and staring at a flat white space? Turn the wall behind your bed and the ceiling into one large canvas.
Continue drawing lines from the wall behind your bed to the ceiling. If you have a color chosen to accent your fifth wall but want to add something more than just “just color,” alternate your chosen color with white stripes to form a pattern.
Or maybe you love your new barn door-style closet, but the room still needs something to make it look a little rustic. Reuse old barn wood on the ceiling to create a rustic vibe.
A little too ambitious for your taste? Another way to get the barn wood look is to use wood panel wallpaper.
Or maybe a beautiful themed wallpaper is all it takes to liven things up. Yeah, the wallpaper on the ceiling, it’s not called the fifth wall for anything.
What about the place where the baby sleeps? Give the nursery that final personal touch. Decoupage the flat soft ceiling above the bed. Start with soft colors and then use pictures of cherubs, animals, cartoons, or calm design elements to make it more interesting for your little one.
Relax in the living room
You’ve spent countless hours decorating your living room. You’re right on trend with this bold velvet chair and antique rug. You use a glossy paint to give the room not only color but also to help reflect light throughout the space. However, the place needs something more.
Examine the space and decide what kind of feeling you want in the room. Want a more comfortable feel to the area? Next, paint the ceiling a darker color than the walls for a cozy, bug-in-the-rug look.
Are you looking to give this space an open and airy feel? Use light colors to create this free and fresh atmosphere.
Or do you want the room to feel finished? Then cover the entire room with the same color. Using the same dark paint on the walls and ceiling will make a small room feel very intimate.
In larger rooms, this monotone paint scheme will help your furniture and decor stand out. The same color of paint on the walls and ceiling in an asymmetrical room, or one with sloping ceilings, can help simplify the look of the room.
Does your living room need depth and texture? False beams can be installed to achieve the effect. If your roof already has beams and you’re not sure what to do with them, paint them a bright color and use a muted color between the timbers.
Time to eat
When choosing paint colors, take the room’s activities into consideration. For example, in the dining room, you don’t want bright colors to clash with your lasagna and turn green for your guests. Here, sticking to a neutral primary wall and relegating the dark color to the ceiling may be a suitable option.
The scout also recommends taking the shine of the paint into consideration. For example, if your walls have a high-gloss finish, paint the ceiling a lighter color with a matte finish.
The paint experts at Select Painting note that high-gloss paint is the most durable and easiest to clean. However, it also shows every pitfall and flaw. Consult the experts before deciding which gloss to apply to any surface in your home.
If you have a tray ceiling, you can add some stenciling for a bit of dining room elegance. You can also use wooden slices or different colors on the inner tray to enhance the dining ambiance.
More options
Small rooms and less-used rooms, such as the laundry room or bathroom, are great places to enjoy color. Adding color to the ceiling to match patterned towels or an exotic laundry room rug gives a whole new feel to those surroundings.
A bright color, like the bright orange in the kids’ playroom, will brighten up the room and add a spacious feel to their favorite space.
Painted wood moldings hot glued to the ceiling will transform this surface as well. Paint the molding a lighter color than the ceiling itself to give the illusion of a terraced ceiling.
Make the ceiling appear to dissipate with matte paint. Bring the color a few inches down the wall. Add a border between where the ceiling paint finishes and before the wall paint begins for a more dramatic effect.
Flat white is no longer the only option for the ceiling. There’s a whole new color palette waiting to be added to the fifth wall.
Searching for that perfect color can be overwhelming. Contact a paint professional to learn about the latest colors and add those finishing touches to your fifth wall. It will save you neck pain.
