But again it seems confusion is a key part in sky blue ceiling color.
Light blue ceiling paint.
This charming ceiling paint tradition looks so great in a living room or dining room.
Blue porch ceilings became widespread in the victorian period when blue paint first became available to the masses.
Some say that the color prevents wasps from building nests we re not much for haints or wasps so we ll take.
This theory doesn t seem to work now so we believe that maybe the lime in the paint long ago is why the insects didn t make a home on the porches.
The blue porch ceiling would confuse the spiders mosquitoes bees and such from building their homes along with the porch ceiling.
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In rooms that don t get much light white ceiling paint is best as it works to reflect more light into these darker spaces.
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Lay drop cloths on to protect the porch floor from splatter.
According to the literature of the time blue ceilings were thought to extend the.
If your walls are white and the ceiling has a flat smooth surface consider painting your ceiling a softer color such as a lighter peach a sky blue a very light gray or a pale yellow to give your space a breezy feel.
Another version of the tradition explains that the haints were afraid of water and would therefore flee at the sight of the watery hue on the houses but if you re not one for believing in haints you may still want to paint your porch a nice light blue for a more practical reason.
But maybe you don t want to go with white.
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The color should be close to that of the paint e g a white light gray or light blue primer for a haint blue porch ceiling.
Or as it s known in the south haint blue.