Home Renovations: Removing a Popcorn Ceiling

Want to change the popcorn ceiling in your home? It can be scraped and prepared smooth for paint except when the rough texture has already been painted several times. In that case, it’s less expensive to attach another layer of drywall on top of it.

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Here’s a picture of a typical 1920’s house in the Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver. Our Alair Homes Vancouver location updated this older historic home with a major renovation that included a home addition. The picture above shows the living room with wonderful, big plaster and lath coves. The owner wanted ceiling speakers installed for a sleek home sound system, so we cut open the old popcorn ceiling (which was painted many times over the years) installed the speaker boxes and wires, then covered it all with new drywall. This picture shows the drywall boards just installed, ready for mud and sanding. As you can see, this is a great way to cover up and get rid of popcorn ceiling to give a room a completely new feel.

Tip: when doing this work be sure to have the floors and other non-movable items like fireplaces covered and protected. Also, any light fixtures, speakers, etc. need to be set for the additional thickness of the new layer of drywall. If you don’t want to undertake this home renovation project yourself, or maybe you just don’t have the time, contact us! We’d love to hear about your ideas to remodel or renovate your home and tell you how we can make them happen.