Is There A Roll-On Popcorn Ceiling Paint?

[randomparent]

Originally Posted by chris410

I also do not quite understand the severe HATE for popcorn ceilings. I agree their not the best looking, but how often are you sitting down just staring at the ceiling? We have popcorn ceilings in our house that was built in 86. It was a none factor to me when buying it.

I had to replace a large circular bathroom exhaust vent with a new smaller one and had to do some touch up around the fan, so i bought the spray on stuff in a can. it was messy but matched just fine although i ended up repainting the entire ceiling in that room.

Removing all the popcorn ceiling in the entire house wasnt worth it to me.

If you do end up getting the spray on stuff in a can, my advice is do not hold the can too close to the ceilign (it sprays far) and do very very short bursts (it comes out very fast)

I agree. The ceiling finish was not at all on my list of concerns when I bought my current home. My last home had flat ceilings and beautiful crown moulding, but the neighborhood was a poor fit for my family. Learned my lesson, though, and I now live in a plain-jane '70s tract house with popcorn ceilings -- horrors! -- in an absolutely fantastic neighborhood in a great town. The ceilings were, and still are, a non-issue.

[nightbird47]

My living room has a beautiful plaster job. I painted it with shiny paint so it shows off the beautiful surface. The popcorn on the ceiling was extremely ugly since it wasn't even uniform, but I scraped off the top surface, leaving a texure and painted over it with lighter emamel. The molding is black and the walls blue and it looks very classic. I've removed bad popcorn jobs in my old house and this actually gave it a use. It doesn't look like popcorn but adds to the nice effect of the plaster.

I love textured walls, especially plaster. If I thought I could do it I'd love to plaster the kitchen too. Eventually I'll score the hardwood and stain it and use what's there (there being two layers of hardwood floors). None of it is perfect, but the house was built in 1930 and I'd like it to NOT look like something built in the seventies.

Popcorn in good shape can be painted for a very nice effect. But if its crumbling (and risk here is asbestos) or a bad job like mine, you have to do at least some removal.

[randomparent]

If you're restoring a 1930's house by removing popcorn, I think it's worth the effort. My house, however, was built in the '70s, and, as they say, it is what it is, popcorn ceilings and all.