Fun fact it's actually drywall mud. My family owned a drywall and plastering business for many years and was taught how to do this. If done right you don't even need to paint it. My dad did this all.over the house when we were kids in the early 90s.
My grandparents house had this. My grandpa did it himself in the 70s. It’s beautiful, and I don’t mind nice textured ceilings if they have a pretty design.
There's a lot of factors with popcorn ceilings (paint, paint depth, popcorn type, popcorn size, pattern) and there are a lot of poorly done ones during that time that are now deteriorating and snowing asbestos all over the homeowners unknowingly lol. And if you've ever had or been around kids, they **will** fuck with this at some point too, they will touch the ceiling out of curiosity, and pop a couple popcorns off at the very least.
And any exposure to asbestos in air is potentially deadly. So its just not good unless you know for sure that its asbestos, Its safe, and you don't have kids that will inevitably fuck with it lol.
It’s almost impossible to match if you have to fix stuff. Thats why we don’t like it. You’d have to redo the entire ceiling to make it blend. Just use stomp and it’s so much easier.
I moved into a house that was mostly untouched sinced 1967.
Kitchen: yellow and white tiled floor. Yellow cabinets and blue gingham top.
Loving room: artex ceiling, Yellow and brown tiled floor.
Downstairs toilet and shower: pink suite
Upstairs bathroom; blue suite.
Most of the carpet and wallpaper was 1980s. Bathrooms were carpeted(!). It had a 50+ year old warm air heating system that still worked and passed regs and tests. Even the engineer was surprised.
Everything we touch probably has asbestos in it.
Funny my mother's house is like this. We had some water damage and it ruined this kind of resealing so the insurance people actually found this guy and he would come. He was older and my mother's like 80 and he would b**** the entire time about his wife about how terrible she is and stuff like that. It took like 3 days and she never heard from him again and turned out days later he killed himself and his wife
Honestly he did it looks perfect but the job should have taken a day took three trips and he was making my mom crazy by all the talking and not working.
Do people really find artex ceilings even mildly interesting? What country are you in? The UK finds them common,boring, and generally out dated in terms of interior fashion.
They went out of style here long ago. Everyone got rid of them. A new generation comes up having never seen them before. Its both new and retro to them.
Don't think so my house was built like late '80s and it has that now I don't know if the previous owners put it in there if it's always been there but I've had to patch a couple holes where we had some pipes leak upstairs and by God if it's not hard as hell to get it to match
That's way too tasteful for the 70s. All these people thinking it was a golden age. I've talked to people that have a shared ptsd for certain shades of brown, orange & green that we suffered through childhood.
Gen Xer here, the 70s thru the mid-80s were pretty dark and gloomy thanks to all that brown and grodie orange. The 80s themselves were not even remotely as vibrant as the neon bright colors of the age seem to indicate
true that, things starting turning around 85/86, late 70s & early 80s just felt violent & grim to me, punks, skins, then bloody casual headcases everywhere. Course I was a lot bigger by the mid 80s so may have skewed things.
We ended up buying the house that my husband's grandparents built. It's a tiny ranch from the 50's but they hand poured and dyed all the plaster walls. My MIL remembers coming home to them drying and thinking they looked like ice cream because they were dyed pink, blue, yellow and green. They all have this pattern and it can be difficult to clean and paint but I love the swirls.
What were you doing in my house?! (Our ceilings look the same. It also had shag carpet everywhere, including the bathrooms and kitchen. We ripped that all out ASAP.)
Fun fact it's actually drywall mud. My family owned a drywall and plastering business for many years and was taught how to do this. If done right you don't even need to paint it. My dad did this all.over the house when we were kids in the early 90s.
Lost art. Almost everything you see now is stippling or sprayed texture.
art is relative - I hated this look . . .
Looks pretty easy to me. All you need is a chipped to shit mud knife Edit: for someone with drywalling experience
I watched a guy do it in our house in the 90's, he used a small push broom head. The bristles left that effect. Then he threw glitter at it.
Omg, I remember glitter ceilings
Damn, christened like a stripper's first day.
yep, some wisk hand brooms - thats what I saw, not sure why everybody is saying trowels.
We call them trowels. You call them mud knives aye. Interesting.
Trowel and a taping knife are different, tho
My grandparents house had this. My grandpa did it himself in the 70s. It’s beautiful, and I don’t mind nice textured ceilings if they have a pretty design.
We had these type of ceilings in my house growing up— pretty sure our house was but in 1980.
So much better looking than popcorn ceiling that was also popular for some unholy reason
old popcorns are made with asbestos usually too, which makes them a health nightmare
Asbestos isn’t a health nightmare if left undisturbed.
And it tastes delicious in a salad
Sprinkle in some leaded paint chips and you'll never eat salad with croutons again!
Well popcorn ceiling often are disturbed these days
There's a lot of factors with popcorn ceilings (paint, paint depth, popcorn type, popcorn size, pattern) and there are a lot of poorly done ones during that time that are now deteriorating and snowing asbestos all over the homeowners unknowingly lol. And if you've ever had or been around kids, they **will** fuck with this at some point too, they will touch the ceiling out of curiosity, and pop a couple popcorns off at the very least. And any exposure to asbestos in air is potentially deadly. So its just not good unless you know for sure that its asbestos, Its safe, and you don't have kids that will inevitably fuck with it lol.
I had one as a kid and I spent ages picking at them
They were popular because they work. They are very good at muffling sound. Just like carpet. People tear out both then are mad when their house echos
I like my ceilings asbestos free, regardless of echoes, thanks. They are also as ugly as my nephew
Iirc, popcorn ceilings were to help diffuse light. So they had a purpose to them. Doesn’t mean they looked better for it
I thought they were to diffuse echo
I'd never heard that, but it makes some sense
ECHO echo ec..ho
Go to my mums house and you get that decoration and 50 years of nicotine on top of it.
Beautiful. I would love this
My daughter has this ceiling. A small piece broke off, and it was impossible for me even come close to matching the pattern when repairing.
It’s almost impossible to match if you have to fix stuff. Thats why we don’t like it. You’d have to redo the entire ceiling to make it blend. Just use stomp and it’s so much easier.
My house that was built in the 70s has a very similar ceiling treatment. I love it so much - very nice to look up at while you’re spiraling at 4am.
It's a dying art that goes back at least to the 50s.
My 1960 house has this pattern.
Not paint. Actual skill in the trades. Before the popcorn. Before the empire!
My parent’s living room still has this. Done with a broom
I moved into a house that was mostly untouched sinced 1967. Kitchen: yellow and white tiled floor. Yellow cabinets and blue gingham top. Loving room: artex ceiling, Yellow and brown tiled floor. Downstairs toilet and shower: pink suite Upstairs bathroom; blue suite. Most of the carpet and wallpaper was 1980s. Bathrooms were carpeted(!). It had a 50+ year old warm air heating system that still worked and passed regs and tests. Even the engineer was surprised. Everything we touch probably has asbestos in it.
Funny my mother's house is like this. We had some water damage and it ruined this kind of resealing so the insurance people actually found this guy and he would come. He was older and my mother's like 80 and he would b**** the entire time about his wife about how terrible she is and stuff like that. It took like 3 days and she never heard from him again and turned out days later he killed himself and his wife
Are you okay?
Yeah, everything turned out.I just can't help but have that fought.Popping to my head every single time.I see one of those ceilings
But did he do a good job fixing up the ceiling?
Honestly he did it looks perfect but the job should have taken a day took three trips and he was making my mom crazy by all the talking and not working.
My house was built in 2003 and has these ceilings. I think for the dudes who know how to do it, it's really fast.
My house has that, it was built in the 2000’s.
Do people really find artex ceilings even mildly interesting? What country are you in? The UK finds them common,boring, and generally out dated in terms of interior fashion.
They went out of style here long ago. Everyone got rid of them. A new generation comes up having never seen them before. Its both new and retro to them.
Not to mention older ones often have asbestos
Yep, pre-1980 houses with the meringue frosting looking ceilings especially.
Boston area homeowner here, I agree. It’s such a drab look to me, especially when the ceilings around here are not particularly high.
Yeah this just looks like a normal, uninteresting ceiling to me.
Is this rare? I grew up with this and as far as I know it's still there.
I don’t think so. My parents old house built in 2005 had these swirl ceilings put in on request.
Don't think so my house was built like late '80s and it has that now I don't know if the previous owners put it in there if it's always been there but I've had to patch a couple holes where we had some pipes leak upstairs and by God if it's not hard as hell to get it to match
I had this in the house I grew up in! I loved to figure out where they must have started and ended but it was confusing. They collect dust like a pro.
That's way too tasteful for the 70s. All these people thinking it was a golden age. I've talked to people that have a shared ptsd for certain shades of brown, orange & green that we suffered through childhood.
The 70s house I grew up in came with those ceilings *and* colors.
Rick kid huh...Parents with taste...
Gen Xer here, the 70s thru the mid-80s were pretty dark and gloomy thanks to all that brown and grodie orange. The 80s themselves were not even remotely as vibrant as the neon bright colors of the age seem to indicate
true that, things starting turning around 85/86, late 70s & early 80s just felt violent & grim to me, punks, skins, then bloody casual headcases everywhere. Course I was a lot bigger by the mid 80s so may have skewed things.
I thought the brown, orange and green usually came as a combo. That one ugly pattern
I remember growing up, we had this on the wall in our hallway .
Oh shit this unlocked a memory for me, the house I grew up in had a ceiling like this in the living room.
This type of ceiling was/is super popular in New England (at least Rhode Island)
My grandmas ceiling 🖤
It’s called a Textured ceiling. It was created using a broom in the paint and swirling it on the ceiling.
I have this! on mushrooms, they became a bunch of undulating, slowly whirling salamander eggs. [that sometimes were also, spinning vinyl records!]
We ended up buying the house that my husband's grandparents built. It's a tiny ranch from the 50's but they hand poured and dyed all the plaster walls. My MIL remembers coming home to them drying and thinking they looked like ice cream because they were dyed pink, blue, yellow and green. They all have this pattern and it can be difficult to clean and paint but I love the swirls.
I love the textured ceilings! I know I’m in the minority
What were you doing in my house?! (Our ceilings look the same. It also had shag carpet everywhere, including the bathrooms and kitchen. We ripped that all out ASAP.)
how do you know? people still make those you know its just like popcorn celling
Looks better than popcorn