Ceiling Paint Colors To Help Your Rooms Feel Taller

Pro tip: “If the room is small, [a trick] is to paint the room a light neutral color and carry the color up onto the ceiling,” says Karen Gray Plaisted, a home stager and decorator in Warwick, New York. “Painting the ceiling molding the same color as the ceiling will also make the ceiling appear higher,” Plaisted says. Combine this expert paint trick with one of the roof-raising paint colors below, and you’ll be amazed how a couple coats of paint can transform your space. Our favorite: Windy Sky by Benjamin Moore RELATED: Why So Many Southern Porches Have Blue Ceilings Our favorite: Pale Daffodil 370A-2 by Behr Our favorite: Ceiling Bright White by Sherwin-Williams