Covering Popcorn Ceiling With Wood

From basic textures to elaborate designs glue on ceilings offer affordable options for low maintenance ceilings.

Covering popcorn ceiling with wood.

They re easy to install attaching directly to the existing ceiling or onto furring strips attached to the ceiling. Another type of popcorn ceiling is created when a basic flat ceiling is sprayed with a coating of acoustic material which has a cottage cheese texture. Covering up a popcorn ceiling is a great alternative to removing it by hand. The most irresistible ceiling styles also happen to be affordable options for covering a popcorn ceiling.

Covering the ceiling with traditional tongue and groove wood planks or beadboard paneling that you can buy through any quality lumber supplier. Beadboard panels are an efficient economical way to get that popular tongue and groove porchy look to cover up an unattractive ceiling. I think it was a lazy way of covering up the ceilings back then. Popcorn ceilings are typically tile which is an inexpensive ceiling option.

Compare wood and vinyl options and choose the one that best suits your budget and diy aspirations. Scraping the textured surface was not an option for me because the ceiling is in poor condition. If the old ceiling is reliably flat you can install the paneling right over the old drywall. This is the old school option.

The next morning we awoke to large sheets of popcorn ceiling on the floor. When we built our house in the 80 s of course that s what went on the ceilings. Their stucco or sculpted plaster look make a great covering for damaged drywall plaster or popcorn ceilings. Popcorn ceiling tiles are usually fragile and thin so no matter how you try to cover them handle with care.

Covering a popcorn ceiling with tongue and groove paneling. The popcorn ceiling was applied to hide flaws. They beckon with the shimmer of patterned metal the richness of wood the delightful charm of beadboard or the essence of old world plaster. Years later we painted the ceiling in the kitchen.

Who in the world thought popcorn ceilings were a good idea. The boards we used are very thin so there wasn t an issue with adding the small depth around the vents and fixtures. Not only is it less messy and time consuming but it is also a fairly easy process that any aspiring diyer can tackle in a weekend. One of our favorite ideas for this material is covering popcorn ceiling with beadboard.

Covering popcorn ceilings with planks.