Painting Plastic Ceiling Medallions

Start with latex paint in a satin finish.

Painting plastic ceiling medallions.

Before painting the medallion buy sample pots of paint and test them in the room. The owners asked me to paint a special finish on alllll of the cabinets in the whole house. You ll get quick even coverage in a fraction of the time required with brush or roller painting. Move quickly do not allow the paint to dry.

If you have a normal ceiling height 8 or 9 height and if you really want color i think i d go with something quite pale as painting the medallion a dark hue could really lower the ceiling visually. You can still find ceiling medallions at home improvement centers. They are made of polyurethane wood plaster or metal and come in various shapes such as flowers stars circles ovals and squares. Have a damp rag ready to remove paint.

The way to paint plaster ceiling medallions painting plaster and timber medallions only once decorated the roofs of palaces government buildings and homes and businesses from the rich. Below are instructions on how to hand paint a marie ricci ceiling medallion. In the victorian era ceiling medallions were an important part of home decor often used as the base for light fixtures and always giving the rooms they occupied a sense of elegance. Painting a ceiling medallion with a decorative paint finish by brooks tucker of bella tucker decorative finishes nashville tn.

Using a 2 1 2 nylon brush apply a generous amount of paint to cover the entire ceiling medallion. Before we get into how to install a ceiling medallion a few tips lessons from my do over diy. Regarding paint i d use any inexpensive household paint because it s going to be mounted on the ceiling and therefore not in constant.