Do you have "popcorn" ceilings?
I keep hearing popcorn ceilings are “So 80s”....but I really don’t remember any other kind of ceiling from the 60s and 70s and beyond either.
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I had them in my Florida place but hadn’t seen them elsewhere – certainly not in any other home I’ve lived in.
I have no idea what this even is.
Just plain old painted sheetrock from the early 50’s here. I lived in a house in Las Vegas (1973) that had “popcorn” textured ceilings. That house was probably built in the mid 60’s.
No, but some of the much older homes where I live have popcorn ceilings. I never had a house with a popcorn ceiling. Not even growing up.
My current ceiling is a knockdown finish.
Google says it is this
So yes. And the walls, too.
I have them here where I live, in the kitchen and dining room, and the bedrooms. The house was remodeled in the 1990s. I’m not sure if the popcorn was there before that. I recently (this year) tried to remove it on my own and it was a big, dusty, messy disaster so I stopped and just left it.
I don’t see it as a big deal, I know people who think it’s horrible. When I’m in someone’s house who has it I don’t even notice. A friend of mine bought a house and when I went to visit she said her husband wants the popcorn removed, he was obsessing about it, and I honestly had not even noticed and I generally take an interest in home decor and things related.
I only notice a ceiling when it’s fabulous, like special coffered ceilings, paneling, or lighting.
Actually, I don’t notice decor much unless it wows me or if it looks extremely shabby and stained. Otherwise, as long as it’s comfortable and clean I’m focused on whomever I’m visiting not their taste and style.
In the Colorado house, built in the mid-50s, the living-dining room had a popcorn ceiling. It was a noticeably quieter room, but it got really dusty.
@canidmajor do you think the dust came from that ceiling? Wouldn’t painting it clean up the dust? What is this “popcorn” made of?
If it’s from the 1940’s-70’s it can be asbestos.
@snowberry The dust didn’t come from the ceiling, but the irregular texture of it caught a lot of regular dust. Painting it was a huge pain in the ass, I had to use a sprayer. As a noise deadened, however, it was a great thing.
@ragingloli Damn, if you run into a wall with that, you’re going to scrape off some skin.
I have it on my ceilings.
I remember those. Sometimes there was actual glitter integrated into that terrible stuff. I hated it as I lived through it, along with a whole pile of horrors which defined the 70s—shag carpet that could conceal a wheelbarrow load of dirt, platform shoes and the victims who fell off them, horrendous monster afros, ideal for housing colonies of spiders or bats and that asbestos laden popcorn sprayed ceiling crap destined to flake down for decades into your lungs and bowls of captain crunch. You can keep the 70s. Elvis—porked up to Michelin man in sequins and the rise of Donny and Marie. And then came disco.
Possibly @ragingloli has orange peal finish and not popcorn. That’s very common on walls. I have it on my walls in my current house.
When I tried to remove it, the dust from it is very fine and got in everywhere.
My stepfather’s parents owned this house before I lived here, and the mother was a big smoker. Underneath the popcorn is a stained ceiling, so I’m sure the contractor who renovated when the parents died wanted something quick and easy and cheap to cover the stained ceiling. For that, it worked.
When I lived in California when I was little, the ceiling was popcorn with glitter on it.
It can be scraped off, but will create a goodly amount of dust since it is held to the ceiling with joint compound. I suppose it could be sprayed down with water, which would dissolve the compound, lower the amount of dust created, and make removal easier. A good drywall knife would scrape it effectively.
It might be a good idea to farm the job out to a pro.
Oh gosh, I have seen glittery ceilings.
@jca2 You might want to make sure it is not asbestos if you ever choose to remove it. Asbestos undisturbed usually is not a problem, but my husband had to sign a waiver when he worked in a building that had an asbestos ceiling.
@JLeslie: If it was put on in the late 1990s I am doubting it’s asbestos.
They stopped the asbestos before that. I missed if you mentioned above what year it was put in.
Not currently. Though we had popcorn ceilings in our old place. So glad when we got it scraped off. Hate popcorn ceilings.
@ragingloli Are you thinking of Raufasertapete? That’s a type of wallpaper.
Popcorn ceilings are sprayed on, I think?
Yes they’re sprayed on. They’re bits of blown foam, like Styrofoam, mixed in white paint.
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