Decorate Ceilings: The Fifth Wall
It’s amazing what you can do with a little creativity and subtlety to decorate you ceiling! Charisse describes how she and her husband found an affordable and creative way to add personal character to their vaulted living room ceiling by adding painted stars that looked professional:
There’s nothing like personalizing a room so that you place your permanent stamp upon it. Of course, I don’t exactly know what psychological symbolism is reflected by the way my husband and I decorated our living room, but we are glad we did it. Reaching the vaulted ceiling in the living room was not as difficult as I anticipated, once we were able to navigate the 15 foot ladder inside the center of the room. Spray painting the multi-colored stars upon the white walls wasn’t too challenging either. The hardest part was creating the various starred patterns. After going to a local arts and craft store, we came out with foam board; day glow spray paints of blue, yellow and orange; and, a box cutter. After stenciling stars of differing shapes and sizes, we cut out the stars and discarded them. Left with the hollow exterior, we would press the foam board onto the ceiling and “fill” in the empty space with one of our spray paints. The best idea is to practice on a couple of surfaces away from where they can be seen since, inevitably, nothing goes as planned. The first stars came out looking more like bloated puffs on the wall: we sprayed too close and so the paint clumped. Spraying too long didn’t turn out well either as the slanted ceiling now made our stars streak – we weren’t going for shooting stars and it sure did not look like it either. In the end, it took the right amount of distance and a light “dusting” of spray to get the actual definition of the star. It also took larger and thicker poster board to project the image as desired. Aside from almost falling a couple of times and the crook in my neck from looking upwards for an extended time, it looks surprisingly good. It appears so faint and subtle on most days that it draws attention because of its lack of conspicuousness. Most people don’t bother to stare at the ceiling, but casual glance upwards reveals something more.
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