Inexpensive Way To Cover Popcorn Ceiling

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Inexpensive way to cover popcorn ceiling.

That s why covering up a popcorn ceiling may be the best option. All you have to do is paint them any color you want and glue them up there. Also the textured material in many areas contains asbestos making removal of the texture or the ceiling problematic and costly. They are cobweb magnets and are hard to clean and difficult to paint and they reduce the ambient natural light in a room.

You also have to be extra cautious if the ceilings were popcorned before 1979 because of the risk of asbestos. Which means they are super easy to install. Faux tin ceiling tiles are one of my favorite ways to cover up popcorn ceilings. For the dormer bedroom redesign we decided that the easiest way to cover a popcorn ceiling would be with planks.

I spent around 600 total. 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. I had them cut in 4 lengths rather than 8. Beadboard panels are an efficient economical way to get that popular tongue and groove porchy look to cover up an unattractive ceiling.

What an easy and relatively inexpensive way to cover up the 80 s popcorn ceiling. One of our favorite ideas for this material is covering popcorn ceiling with beadboard. Figured i would still have to paint but it alleviated the need for primer. No mess no scraping.

I was searching for a cheap way to cover a popcorn ceiling and this was perfect. They come with the patterns already embossed on them and are super light. And with the planks that we used it was relatively cheap since they cost around 1 per square foot.