Types of wallpaper on the ceiling: how to choose for yourself
Few young people know that wallpaper on the ceiling, until recently, was one of the main ways to decorate the ceiling. Nowadays, new technologies do not often use wallpaper on the ceiling, more often it is: panels, decorative plaster or false ceilings. But many still prefer the classic ceiling decoration wallpaper.
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Wallpaper on the ceiling
With the help of wallpaper on the ceiling, you can create an unusual and original room interior, and for a fairly reasonable price. And since wallpapers for ceilings do not go out of fashion, then manufacturers are trying to improve and diversify their products.
Wallpaper on the ceiling is diverse not only in quality, but also in texture, not to mention the colors and patterns or patterns. The selection of wallpaper depends on the room in which they will be located, as well as on the interior style of this room (see Room decoration options: materials and installation) Wallpaper on the ceiling is not only stylish and original, it is also functional.
Consider several useful features from the sticker on the ceiling:
- Wallpaper on the ceiling will help to hide small flaws in the surface.
- It is easy to use, it is quite easy to stick them with your own hands.
- The price of such a ceiling finish is several times less than some others.
- This is an original and noble appearance.
- Wallpaper on the ceiling will not take up space, which happens with other methods of decoration.
- A large assortment of textures and colors will help you choose a wallpaper for any interior style.
Types of ceiling wallpaper
A variety of ceiling wallpaper allows you to choose the material in any room, whether it is residential or household:
- Paper wallpaper
This is the most common type of wallpaper because of their low price and environmental friendliness. Their advantages also include breathability, but their fear of humidity does not make them applicable in all rooms. Paper wallpapers are divided into three types:
- Smooth - they consist entirely of paper only, and special processing allows the image to not lose its color for quite some time.
- Structural - they consist of two layers and a drawing is applied to them using a stencil, due to which a structural image is obtained.
- Photowall-paper - which became popular again due to the variety of not only images, but also qualities, textures and textures.
- Vinyl wallpapers
Such wallpapers are used much more often than paper ones, since they have a lot of pluses, and minus only in poor breathability. The positive qualities of vinyl wallpaper are:
- High wear resistance.
- Good moisture resistance.
- Easy to stick.
- A large assortment.
- Affordable price.
Vinyl wallpapers are divided into several types, depending on the method of their manufacture:
- Flat vinyl - these wallpapers have a smooth surface and give an exquisite gloss.
- Foamed vinyl - these wallpapers have a textured surface that allows you to simulate various natural or building materials. For example, plaster or tree bark.
- Thick vinyl - considered the heaviest and most expensive type of vinyl wallpaper. Due to their thickness, such wallpapers can imitate natural stone, brick or tile.
- Silk-screen printing - such wallpapers consist of two layers, the lower of which is paper, and the upper vinyl with silk threads. This wallpaper looks like silk fabric and quite expensive.
- Non-woven wallpaper
The most suitable type of wallpaper for the ceiling, because of the shortcomings they have only a high, unlike the previous types, price, although they are worth it.They are also well suited for painting, if you want new paints, no problem changing the color of the ceiling. They have many useful properties:
- Hide surface imperfections due to its dense base.
- Create a good air exchange, not allowing to damp and mold.
- Useful for plasterboard ceilings (see Drywall ceiling decoration - how to do it right), as they protect the ceiling from cracks.
- The benefit of staining these wallpapers is good in rapidly polluting rooms, for example, in the kitchen.
- Textile wallpaper
Textile wallpaper for the ceiling is created by gluing natural fabrics to a paper base and impregnated with special compounds for moisture resistance and wear resistance. In addition, the benefits include:
- High aesthetics and decorativeness.
- Seamless when glued, invisible joints.
- Do not fade and retain their colors.
- They provide additional soundproofing.
But there are some disadvantages:
- High price.
- Dust attraction.
- Careful leaving.
- Fiberglass wallpaper
They consist of two natural layers: a paper base and a fiberglass layer, which is pulled from very hot glass. They consist of solid pluses and are suitable for repeated painting. The disadvantages include their high cost.
One of the latest materials on the construction market. This type of wallpaper is more like plaster and is also sold in powder form and diluted with water before application. Such wallpapers are divided into three types:
- Cellulose.
- Silk.
- Cellulose-silk.
Their differences depend on their filling with cellulose or silk fiber. With the help of liquid wallpaper create unique panels on the ceiling. And since they are erased from water, it is worth applying a special protective layer after applying them to the surface. Their advantages are:
- Fairly reasonable price.
- Ecological naturalness.
- High breathability.
- They tolerate temperature differences well.
- Easy to use.
- No additional surface treatment is required before application.
- They have no joints and no cracks.
- Quite a wide range of colors.
Advice! Wall-paper for ceilings is chosen for quality, considering which room they will be in.
Color and texture
Pasting the ceiling with multi-colored wallpaper is not suitable for all rooms, since this type of decoration visually makes the room smaller and it is better to use bright plain wallpaper in a small room. But although the room is reduced in size, the wallpaper on the ceiling makes it more comfortable and original.
Such a ceiling decoration is well suited to a large room; an ideal option would be a one-room apartment, where, using wallpaper, you can zone a room, which is: a living room, a dining room, a bedroom, an office, and sometimes a nursery.
Wallpaper on the ceiling provides more opportunities to create an interesting interior design and design techniques. For example, you can choose wallpaper on the ceiling and walls in one color scheme, which will make them one whole or use the same pattern on different color backgrounds.
Wallpapering the whole ceiling with wallpapers is not necessary at all, you can create patterns from them, you can only paste around the perimeter or around the chandelier. You can also complement the composition of the wallpaper with lighting or elements of false ceilings.
By connecting imagination, you can still come up with a lot of different options for wallpapering the ceiling. But do not forget that if you want to focus on the ceiling, the walls should be plain. If the wallpaper on the walls is the same as on the ceiling, it is worth separating them, for example, using moldings.
Many people dream of seeing the starry sky on their ceiling and now it can be created not only with stretch ceilings. Wallpaper the starry sky on the ceiling can glow in the dark, due to the special phosphoric paint added when they are created.Wallpaper with the image of stars or planets will create a feeling of something cosmic and mysterious, unknown and distant. Such images are diverse and will look good in the bedroom or children's room.
Also in great demand are wallpapers on the sky-colored ceiling, they fit very well in any interior and room. Both in the nursery and in the bedroom or living room. There are a lot of images of the sky, it can be: the sky with snow-white clouds, the cloudy sky, and the blue sky with soaring birds.
Glossy ceiling wallpaper is also popular, they are especially good for small rooms. The reflection of the room in the reflective surface of the ceiling will make the room visually larger. In addition, the gloss on the ceiling looks not only very impressive, but also quite noble.
Advice! The color scheme of the wallpaper on the ceiling is selected, taking into account the shades of the interior of the whole room and the room in which they will be located. For example, a quiet range of colors and shades is chosen in the bedroom, and you can use bright colors in the kitchen or living room.
Wallpapering the ceiling
When preparing the ceiling for wallpapering, the same work is done as when gluing the walls. The main additional finish is the priming of the ceiling (see How to primer the ceiling: we understand in stages), for better adhesion of the wallpaper to the surface.
Wallpaper is pasted in the direction of sunlight entering the room or along the length of the ceiling. For convenience, they are glued across the ceiling, so it is easier to cope with the panels of wallpaper. Pasting the ceiling, you can lower the wallpaper a little on the wall, so it will turn out to be a certain cornice.
Of course, one person cannot cope with such work, so when pasting the ceiling you need at least two people, and ideally three. One of which will paste the wallpaper with glue, and serve the other two, which will stick them on the ceiling. After applying the canvas, you need to remove air bubbles with a brush, heading from the middle to the edges. Of course, if you try very hard you can do everything yourself, but not the fact that it will turn out qualitatively.
The video in this article shows detailed instructions on how to properly paste wallpaper on the ceiling.
