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Pretty color. My bathroom is the same, keeps it simple and clean looking.

Anyone know of a source for that circular shower rod?

I love how the stained glass window adds pop of colors to plain walls. I've not painted the ceiling with the same color as the wall. But love the idea!

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Great color! I am thinking about making a faux tray ceiling in my kitchen. I'll post pics if it turns out well.

LoriSF- You can find that kind of rod here: http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/177-3603324-0928745?ASIN=B0004JNOAK&AFID=Froogle&LNM=B0004JNOAK|Chrome_Oval_Shower_Rod_With_Support&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=B0004JNOAK&ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001

Or here:
http://www.restorationhardware.com/rh/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=prod4090002&navCount=1

And I have seen them at Home Depot and Lowe's on occasion.

nice

HCVMama - thanks! I did not think of target or duh restoration hardware.

The one I saw at Home depot looked too cheap.

Looks fab! I recently recommended this solution to a condo board for their teeny, tiny hallways. Having the ceiling the same color as the walls gives the eye less information to define the limitations of the space-thus making it feel larger! Or thats what I'm screaming and now I am justified by Apartment Therapy. S W E E T!

Yep, my bathroom and bedroom are like this. seafoamy and terracotta-like respectively.

Funny that this topic came up now: I'm thinking about painting my bathroom and kitchen and am thinking about painting the ceilings the same color as the walls. The issue is that because my apartment is old, the building has settled, and there's no molding around the ceilings, getting a clean, straight line between a colored wall and a white ceiling would be impossible. Guess I'll try it and see how it goes.

I'm currently UN-doing this tactic room by room in my house. I think it was done by the previous owner out of laziness more than anything else - no worries about accidentally overlapping where the ceiling and walls meet when they're the same color. I'm loving my new ultra bright white ceiling that is letting the modest 8-foot height feel a little airier.

It looks really good. Subtle and sophisticated.

OH yes, in my daughters' bathroom, it was a light blue color that I created by adding off white to a dark blue...mixed it until I liked the shade, then painted the walls & ceiling the same color. Even painted the insert for the doors of the bathroom cupboard that same blue (it was the off white color all over)

Looked pretty darn good, if I say so myself! ;-)

Back in '91, in our first house renovation, we installed a bathroom in our 1 1/2, and so had a situation with sloping ceilings.

I painted the walls and ceiling the same colour, a glazed ragging of Pratt and Lambert's Carribean Blue and Carribean Green over Color Your World's Milkglow. It was beautiful, and a perfect contrast to the black and white traditional scheme of the bathroom... (clawfoot tub painted black outside; 1" black and white mosaic tiles with a Greek Key patterned border; white marble countertop with undermount sink, brass legs and exposed plumbing; antique brass fittings -- unvarnished).

Actually, ALL the ceilings on the second floor were painted the same as the walls... it was very dreamy, and appropriate as they were bedrooms.

My entire apartment is painted this way. It makes the rooms feel light and airy. I live in a modern molding-free space so it works.

we painted our bedroom ceiling same as three of the walls (one wall is darker shade), partially out of ease - 11.5' ceilings, but also I liked the idea of feeling submerged - it is painted pool blue. It does make the room look larger and the ceilings look higher.

Both of my bathrooms have ceilings painted the same color as the walls - the Master Bath is Ocean Blue, and the Hall Bath is Black Bean Soup.

IMO - for small spaces, this is the way to go to keep the place from feeling any smaller.

When my parents had a bathroom remodeled they picked a very rich paprika-coral-ish color. The contractor painted the ceiling, too, to their surprise. Since it was a basement bathroom with a small window, and from the 60's so it was fairly small-- it left the bathroom feeling like a dungeon. Long story short-- I think the one-color concept works great in large rooms, rooms with tons of windows, or with light colors-- like the bathroom in this post.

This is beautiful!

We did this in a couple of rooms in our house. First of all, it's easier to paint because there are no delineations between the wall and ceiling, and also, what we've noticed is that the way the light hits both areas makes them look like there are 2 different paint shades.

We did the same thing in our bathroom, with a buttery yellow on the ceiling and upper walls, white tile on the lower walls, and a deep colonial green on the woodwork (there's wood trim between the tile and the painted wall). We used outdoor-grade paint to withstand the humidity, even though we have an exhaust fan, and the wall color still doesn't need repainting after 12 years. The paint on the door and in one or two places on the vanity could use a touch-up, because we bang into it all the time, but otherwise it still looks great and the yellow paint bounces a lot of light around the room and makes it seem sunnier than it would be otherwise.

I like this very much. I was considering this in my bathroom pre-post and these pics sealed the deal. I'm going with it. Thanks!

i have not done this, but would definitely try it. i've seen it done well in bedrooms and dining spaces.

kelly
http://tearinguphouses.blogspot.com

Nice choice of color...looks really fresh!

Foozi

It is beautiful, I think that the fact that this was done in a small space must be the key to looking right. Our entryway has floor to ceiling yellow and looks pretty oppressive. My husband is repainting the ceiling in a white this weekend. We hope the white ceiling will help to bring in a more natural looking light.

love it

i'm a huge fan of color continuity in a room in a restricted space

this works well here

thanks for the view

you rock

I did this in my bedroom (mostly b/c I wanted an accent wall and I didn't want to buy a third paint color). I chose a very light blue as my main color, so I thought it would go well with the ceiling. It's a bit hard to see in the photo, but the ceiling is the same color as the right wall. (Left wall is the accent). http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahartman/3782796526/

Like home body, I plan to undo this look in my bathroom once I start painting. I don't think it makes the room feel larger (on the contrary, the ceiling seems lower than it is). Maybe it's the warm, beigy color our landlord chose that makes the walls close in, but even so, it's not getting the monochrome treatment even with the cooler, lighter grey-green we've chosen.