Bathroom ceiling paint color - white or wall?

[Deleted]

I'm planning to paint our bathroom ceiling the same color as the crown molding in our bathroom this weekend. Right now they are both cream, I'm going Alabaster.

Do you paint the ceiling the same color as the walls? I read that YHL does that because they think it makes the room seem bigger. True or false?

I've never seen this in real life.

ETA: I am using satin on the walls. Do they really use satin on the ceiling - I suppose right? I'm using flat on the ceiling.

[wawa]

I think it depends on the look you're going for. Do you want your crown to be a big focal point? If you do then I wouldn't paint the crown and ceiling the same color.

I've seen some really cool rooms in older houses with great complex crown with the walls, ceiling and crown all in different colors. (bolder color on wall, neutral/white on crown, more subtle color on ceiling) I really liked that, but I think it only works with high ceilings and really beautiful moldings to which you REALLY want to draw attention.

[kaylie]

Ours are wall color, but I don't like it. Once I put the crown in I'm going to paint the ceiling white.

[Susie]

Our bathrooms have white ceilings, no crown molding.

With crown molding I think it might look weird to have crown molding bisecting planes that are exactly the same color. I've never seen it, but it seems like it might look odd.

Our downstairs bath needed a white ceiling so the blah ceiling fixture and fan cover blend in.

[floridakat]

In a small bathroom (like a powder room) I like painting the ceiling partly because I think it looks good, but mostly because I suck at cutting in and it's just easier to paint it.

With crown, I would do a white ceiling. (Or the same color as your trim.)

[floridakat]

Oh, and I had a wallpaper hanger look at our powder room and he suggested papering the ceiling as well. He said it can make a small room look bigger.

[Deleted]

Interesting!!!

Wawa - while it's a classic bathroom, it's the thinner crown that was done in bedrooms back then. That's an interesting idea though. Maybe we could do something like that in our dining room w/ the more substantial crown molding once we get the popcorn scraped. Something to think about.

[poisonkisses]

The previous owners painted our main bathroom ceiling the same as the walls, aqua, and I hate it. It makes it that much more of a pain to change the colour. We painted the walls purple, but I keep putting off painting the ceiling white, so now it looks very Easter eggy with the aqua ceilings. They also matched the ceiling to the walls in the dining room (yellow) and one bedroom (dark turquoise). In the turquoise bedroom they even matched the carpeting and closet doors, same colour everywhere you looked, it was freaky and a bitch to paint the doors and ceiling white.

[magdala9]

We have one bathroom that has a white ceiling and another that has a matching ceiling and wall color. The bathroom with the matching colors is very small and the color is very light. I think what color you pick will impact how the whole room looks. A dark color all over might be very enclosing.

[Deleted]

I normally use the lightest color on the color strip (the strip the wall color is on) for the ceiling and then just regular white for crown and baseboards. However, with a color as light as alabaster, I don't know if it will matter.
I do know that I enjoy white on crown moulding so that it stands out, even if it is a slight difference.

[auntie]

I prefer white. My bathroom ceilings are only at 8', a wall color would feel like it was on my head.

My downstairs ceiling are white, it acts as a thread, along with the trim, to unify the different rooms and colors.

[Deleted]

our bathroom ceilings are 2 shades different than the walls (darker in the master bath-lighter in the secondary bathrooms). I like it. I think White looks stark/naked especially when using a bold color.

It seems that most of the houses in my 'hood have colored ceilings.