Ceiling painted...not

If the title of this confused you, don't worry, I'm confused too!

Last weekend, hubby helped me paint the ceiling in my eventual quilt studio.  He even bought the Kilz primer/sealer for me!  Gotta love that man!  He had suggested the Kilz because the previous owners were smokers (ugh!).

We borrowed the neighbor's paint sprayer.  We don't know, but there's a chance, that the popcorn ceiling might be asbestos.  We can't afford to have it remediated, so we're doing everything we can to not disturb it.  Painting is okay - especially with a sprayer.

Here's a before photo:



It doesn't look too bad, in the full shot, but take a look at this one:













The popcorn is medium brown, the white stripe is where a board was holding up a valance, the dark along the wall is how dirty the ceiling tiles would be if the popcorn hadn't been added later.  You can also get a glimpse of how stained the paneling is from that light spot in the lower left corner.  That's where I removed a curtain bracket.

Here's an after photo:



Isn't that much brighter and cleaner?  Yes, we got some on the walls...intentionally.  We don't want to remove the trim along the ceiling because that would disturb the iffy popcorn, so we hit it with the Kilz and the white ceiling paint.

Now, you're probably wondering where the "...not" comes in in my post title.  This photo might clear that up:



Yep, that's the paint and primer peeling off the ceiling tiles!  Thankfully, none of it is actually falling down and the popcorn seems to be contained in the paint/primer.  So the ceiling is painted, but it's not.

Hubby came up with a brilliant solution.  You can safely cover up chancy popcorn by putting boards over it, like ¼" plywood, MDF, etc.  We're going to use beadboard and 1x6's and create a coffered ceiling!  It will extend into the hallway as well, since we painted that and it's also peeling.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy