![]() ![]() This is a great tip when painting any ceiling. I feel like I have better control with a small roller and it prevents my arm from tiring our when painting overhead. My favorite are these small rollers with a 3/8 inch nape. The best option for a roller is to use a small fluffy roller. You only need a few tools to paint a drop ceiling.Ī paint sprayer would work, but since I don’t own one I was left using a good brush and paint roller. I think about 1/2 gallon of paint covered our whole ceiling. It did not take much paint to cover the entire square footage of our ceiling. Unless you really want to draw the eye up to the drop ceiling, I would stick with a flat or matte finish for you ceiling paint. #Drop ceiling plus#I used Valspar ceiling paint plus primer in a flat finish. Using an all-in-one paint plus primer cuts down on the amount of coats needed to cover the ceiling. We are trying to reduce the amount of coats of paint that will be put on the ceiling tiles. The key is you want both the paint and primer in one. Materialsįirst, pick a good quality ceiling paint + primer. I want to share with you some helpful tips to paint a drop ceiling. So that led me to paint the drop ceiling in our kitchen. Especially as I started painting the kitchen white, it was obvious that the drop ceiling had yellowed over the years. Most of the ceiling tiles are in good shape, I didn’t see any water stains, but it was just dingy looking. In our kitchen we have not only have drop ceiling tiles, but they also have a fruit pattern…which I guess is fitting for a kitchen. Many times the ceilings are just held together but lightly interlocking with one another. That is why you have to take special precautions and steps when painting a drop ceiling. ![]() Many times the tiles are a cheap particle board material.ĭrop ceilings are not one solid piece, I repeat…not one solid piece. Usually drop ceilings are a ceiling grid comprised of old ceiling tiles. We have encountered both of these in our home. Sometimes acoustic ceiling tiles were used to help with sound.ĭrop ceilings are sometimes a suspended ceiling that hangs by wires or is just dropped slightly with furring strips. I believe the idea was to save on heating cost, but some homeowners may have wanted to cover up original plaster ceilings too. These ceilings were the big craze in the 70s and 80s to reduce the ceiling height of previously 9 or 10 foot ceilings in an older home. You may have a drop ceiling in your home and not even realize it. #Drop ceiling how to#So if you are like us and have an old drop ceiling in your home that could use an update, keep reading to find out how to paint a drop ceiling. It took all my will power to not tear down our outdated drop ceiling to regain the foot of unused space above it.īut I know now is not the time to tear into our kitchen, especially with our laundry room, mudroom and guest bathroom completely gutted.įor now these old tiles will remain in our kitchen and our best solution is painting the ceiling tiles. Since we aren’t completely gutting our farmhouse kitchen that meant our outdated drop ceiling tiles remained in place. But for now we are content with a small makeover. #Drop ceiling update#We recently gave our farmhouse kitchen a quick update with small budget.Įventually we have plans to completely gut the kitchen and restore it more closely to the design style found originally in a 1915 farmhouse. Learn the best way to paint a drop ceiling and transform outdated ceiling panels. Update drop ceiling tiles with these easy steps. ![]()
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