Inexpensive Way To Cover Popcorn Ceiling

Figured i would still have to paint but it alleviated the need for primer.

Inexpensive way to cover popcorn ceiling. What an easy and relatively inexpensive way to cover up the 80 s popcorn ceiling. Just glue up we used cheap caulk for the adhesive these ultra lite tiles made of recycled styrofoam are easy to cut and can be painted it would have cost around 1200 to have the old ceiling scraped down and another 1200 to have it refinished and painted. For the homeowner textured ceilings come with many drawbacks. I went to home depot to get my hardboard and found they had it in white.

No mess no scraping. You also have to be extra cautious if the ceilings were popcorned before 1979 because of the risk of asbestos. That s why covering up a popcorn ceiling may be the best option. Beadboard panels are an efficient economical way to get that popular tongue and groove porchy look to cover up an unattractive ceiling.

And with the planks that we used it was relatively cheap since they cost around 1 per square foot. All you have to do is paint them any color you want and glue them up there. For the dormer bedroom redesign we decided that the easiest way to cover a popcorn ceiling would be with planks. One of our favorite ideas for this material is covering popcorn ceiling with beadboard.

They are cobweb magnets and are hard to clean and difficult to paint and they reduce the ambient natural light in a room. I spent around 600 total. I had them cut in 4 lengths rather than 8. They come with the patterns already embossed on them and are super light.

Which means they are super easy to install. Thanks for sharing this. Also the textured material in many areas contains asbestos making removal of the texture or the ceiling problematic and costly.