To all the complaints about ceiling heights, money spent and anything but a white painted ceiling I say Boo Hoo.My wife and I bought a modest 850 sf post war bungalow, our first house, mostly with borrowed money and our own savings in 1985. We replastered our 8' high ceilings and added an 'antique' finish to them by squirting some paint dyes into the mud buckets without mixing them thoroughly. This created subtle color streaks in the ceilings, which we then hand waxed. our 8x5 bathroom got a coved ceiling, just enough to show, a 6" difference with a similar treatment, so did the tiny kitchen. and we 'ragged' the ceilings in the living room - a technique of dipping a crumpled rag in a slightly contrasting paint and rolling it or trapping on the ceiling surface... The results did not cost us much in extras, maybe $50 in extra paint and wax and some elbow grease. Our house sold seven years later at the highest price per square foot in our neighborhood. And we and our guests loved it in the meantime. All one needs is a little experimentation, elbow grease and imagination.

To all the complaints about ceiling heights, money spent and anything but a white painted ceiling I say Boo Hoo.My wife and I bought a modest 850 sf post war bungalow, our first house, mostly with borrowed money and our own savings in 1985. We replastered our 8' high ceilings and added an 'antique' finish to them by squirting some paint dyes into the mud buckets without mixing them thoroughly. This created subtle color streaks in the ceilings, which we then hand waxed. our 8x5 bathroom got a coved ceiling, just enough to show, a 6" difference with a similar treatment, so did the tiny kitchen. and we 'ragged' the ceilings in the living room - a technique of dipping a crumpled rag in a slightly contrasting paint and rolling it or trapping on the ceiling surface... The results did not cost us much in extras, maybe $50 in extra paint and wax and some elbow grease. Our house sold seven years later at the highest price per square foot in our neighborhood. And we and our guests loved it in the meantime. All one needs is a little experimentation, elbow grease and imagination.

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