What would you do with a bedroom with a sloped ceiling and low?Paint it all white?
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No...get away from white. There are darker colours that will extend the eye up and make the room look taller (i.e. that's why we tend to wear all black when we try to hide a few pounds...and it works).
You can use a dark colour of your choice but paint the wall and the ceiling it attaches to all in the same colour.
Don't make the mistake of painting the walls one colour and the ceiling another. That chops the room in half and makes it wider but lower.
If you don't like the idea of a dark ceiling, then if the sloped part of the ceiling extends a long way, you can use tromploei to paint a skylight and use a white surround for the "skylight" and light blue and white for sky and clouds. Tricking the eye if fun and not hard to learn. Pick up a book at your local library and if you feel you are able to and/or willing to give it a shot, get a book for keeps and go for it.
Good luck!! I love rooms with sloped ceilings...so much more character.
A couple years ago I would say yes, go with white, keep it simple. But I have been looking at magazines lately like Country Home and Cottage Living, and they are doing some amazing things with brilliant colors and vibrant designs, even on sloping ceilings. My entire house (200 years old) has white walls because I thought that's what I should do. Now I am planning on going really colorful and creative.with the colors upstairs on the sloping-ceilings rooms. Take a peek at some good magazines for inspiration -- don't be afraid of patterns and colors! Have fun!
White is too boring, but if you paint it, paint it with a light color so it makes your room look bigger. If you don't like the slope, then paint it a darker color.
You could hang fabric from it, kinda like make it a tent type thing.
Or, if you are good at painting, paint a mural, or the night time sky.
Definitely leaf through some magazines or websites online for some ideas. White is too boring imo, but a light color will help a small room look bigger, especially if the ceiling is low. Perhaps a painting treatment that makes the ceiling to appear to be open to the sky, or to look like fabric or some other texture (so many possibilities!) depending on what the theme for the room itself is.
Get creative and let your inspiration and imagination guide you...if you can imagine it, it can be done! ☺
My neighborhood is filled with 1-1/2 story bungalows. So I've seen a number of angled ceiling-walls done both ways; treating it as a ceiling (with flat 'ceiling white' paint) and treating it as a wall with room color.
It might be counter-intuitive, but in my opinion, painting it ceiling white 'brought the ceiling down' reinforcing the potentially cramped feeling, while painting it wall color 'pushed the wall up', opening up the feel of the room a bit. In other words, it seemed like there was an unusually angled wall instead of a low ceiling.
That having been said the angled walls I've seen painted were relatively bright and vibrant colors, I don't think it would have worked if the angled wall were painted a dark color - that would have been imposing to me.
Good luck -
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