Colour advice needed!

Doozergirl

They don't perform miracles.

It's a marketing thing. 20% of people will pay more for a 'premium' product which may provide some benefit but is mainly designed to produce a higher % of profit for the manufacturer than the standard product...

ValHaller

olias wrote: »

Surely its the other way round? Traditionally you would always paint lighter above a picture rail. The benefit in this situation would be, if you painted the section above the rail the same colour as the roof, to make the roof area, and therefore the room, appear bigger.

The other obvious thing, of course, is to put a really large mirror on one of the side walls.

Olias

Yes, I would go lighter above a picture rail. Form the point of view of creating an illusion, I don't think light or dark ceilings makes much difference, it is more the matter of an observable colour change at a lower height than the ceiling. Personally, I would go for brilliant white on a ceiling and down to a picture rail, to maximize the optical efficiency of the room and go for a darker colour below the rail.

olias

Exactly! The effect given is to bring the ceiling height down to the height of the picture rail, while making the ceiling space, and therefore the room, appear wider.

Olias

pineapple

Doozergirl wrote: »

They don't perform miracles.

It's a marketing thing. 20% of people will pay more for a 'premium' product which may provide some benefit but is mainly designed to produce a higher % of profit for the manufacturer than the standard product...

I'm assuming they contain some reflective particles. Would worry about having a glittery wall :eek:

SailorSam

pineapple wrote: »

Previously I just used it as a dumping ground for all the things that would have been in a garden shed if I had one!
Might be selling in the spring, not sure yet.

Getting away from the painting for a minute, i had a small bedroom (junk room) that was created from a previous job, i thought it was to small for a proper bedroom so have made it into an office. Wasn't a big job using Mdf from B&q. I don't need it myself but i thought when the time comes to sell it would add-on something which a junk room didn't.

lostinrates

We painted the ceiling of a down stairs loo a very dark blue. The room looks MUCH bigger now. The walls are a soft greyish green. Actually......must finish that.

I wouldn't do anything that extreme in a bedroom though. Downstairs we have two rooms ceiling the same colour as the walls. These rooms have high vaulted ceilings, one is a small room, one a large one.. The same coloured ceiling has definitely been the best solution, Because it feels 'part of the room' and brings down the high ceilings somewhat to add size and restore proportion.

Personally, I'm not a fan of odd coloured walls in rooms, occasionally architecture does merit it, in most normal rooms I think it looks a bit uncomfortable tbh.

whitesatin

We had a very small room with high ceiling in our last house. I chose a Laura Ashley wallpaper with a huge pattern. People thought I was mad but agree that it had a receding effect rather than bringing the room in. I kept the ceiling and paintwork in white.

I would love to use the same scheme here, when I get the time.

It was Laura Ashley Summer Palace wallpaper in duck egg colour. Huge pink birds. Wonderful stuff!