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I'll include a picture, because I've never heard it go by this name.
I always watch HGTV and whenever there's a popcorn ceiling, people freak out about it! I have it in my house and don't hate it, I actually kinda like it (but maybe that's cuz I grew up with it so it's like a little piece of my childhood)?
Where do you stand?
I don't really care but I have heard that some older ones may have asbestos in them which is bad.
I don't prefer them but I honestly don't really care. I think when buying a house, that'd be one of the last things I'd be really concerned about. Every rental we've been in has them so I'm used to them.
@mandb122: Definitely. I would probably choose a "flat" ceiling if I had my choice, but I'm not sure I even looked at the ceiling when we were buying, cuz it just doesn't matter that much! Haha.
Personally I don't spend much time looking at the ceiling so I don't have an opinion. However I agree with chasesgirl that they often contain asbestos and if you do decide to remove it (via scraping) you will need to take the proper precautions.
I am not a huge fan of popcorn ceiling texture, in our house we have "knockdown texture" on the ceilings and in the closets which I LOVE, it looks like this:
I voted Nay, but honestly, I never notice them in other people's houses. The people who flip out about them on HGTV make me crazy!! They're usually the same people who also complain when houses don't have stainless steel appliances, or the walls are painted colors they don't like. I'm always amazed the realtors showing them around aren't caught rolling their eyes on camera.
They are a cheap way for builders to finish the ceiling. They don't have to tape, mud, or sand the drywall on the ceiling.
They are however easy to get rid of IF they have never been painted. You just spray them with water, let it soften, then scrape it off. You then will have the unfinished drywall to decide what you want to do with.
Eh, I don't really care. My parents house has it. I remember when they re-did our bathroom they paid extra to get it. Since the guy doing it was a friend he let me and my brother watch him do it. I thought it was so cool so I guess I little part of me likes them :)
HATE THEM!!! they're in all the apartments we've been in. drives me nuts. with that being said, i wouldn't care if they were in a house i'd just have it all scraped off!
I voted NAY ... grew up with it ... then my mom thought let's scrape it off and just have a regular flat ceiling...... MISTAKE. So much mess and dust for months after. I heard too it covers up imperfections in the ceilings. I hate them .. but I live now in a 1922 bungalow with ceiling tiles .. that's MUCH worse.
My parent's house has celings like this in the family room. My sister and I used to stand on the couch and touch the celing when we were little because it felt so funny lol. I don't really even notice it in other people's houses though.
I hate them because they're incredibly hard to keep clean! Dust ends up in all of the little crevices! Blech!
I don't mind the look, though.
I'm a design blogger, so I feel a little passionate about them. I hate them. I have a blogger friend who removed hers, but it was a terrific mess. I wouldn't buy a house that had them unless it was a total steal.
I had them growing up and my parents still have them. I used to stare at them for hours and find all sorts of cool shapes in them. However, if I had them now, I'd probably scrape them off. I don't care either way.
@julies1949: Actually, they do still have to tape and mud the ceiling even if they are planning on doing a popcorn ceiling. Popcorn will not cover the cracks between the sheets of drywall. However, it will hide a poor mud job.
I don't like them, but I don't feel all that passionate in that dislike. I just really don't notice that stuff... couldn't tell you offhand if my apartment has a textured or flat ceiling, actually.
I don't care. I guess I wouldn't pick them, but it's not a big deal.
I actually really liked them when I was a kid. Our house had them and I'd lay in my bed at night and find "pictures" in them like you do in clouds and with stars :) It was fun!
Hate them.
My husband commented that's most houses he's been in have them. I pointed out to him that all the houses he's thinking about were either built or remodeled in the 70s/80s.
I'm impartial...grew up with them. Our house was built in the 90's and some of the rooms have it and others don't.....didn't make or break our decision to buy this house obviously, but with our price range every house we looked at was pretty much certain to have em anyways
Oh God, my eyes! lol I'm a designer and I cannot stand the sight of them. No aesthetic value whatsoever. Luckily I've never had to live anywhere that had them but I've seen them in plenty of apartments. It would actually depress me to look at that every day. lol
I did that too!!! (Stared at the ceiling and made pictures in my head) I'm glad I wasn't the only one!!
I don't think I care one way or another, honestly, if a house has them. The only problems I can think of are issues with spider webs collecting easily (no matter how hard you try to clean), and possibly my inablitily to focus...."OOOH. Look! That spot looks like a SHEEP!!!"
I dislike them. It's not at the point of hate, but it's a strong dislike.
I mostly dislike them because when I have things in my closet on the top shelf, and I pull them down and accidently brush the ceiling, pieces of it fall in my hair and in my eyes. It's lovely.
What's the point of that stuff, anyway??
@Ms Mini: I love that look!
now I'm worried that whenever people come to our house they're gunna be like ewww popcorn ceilings instead of all notice our other new stuff haha
LOATHING. They're near impossible to clean, look dingy if they're more than a few years old...I really just can't stand them. Naturally our apartment has them and I hate waking up to the sight of them each and every day.
I think part of it is they remind me of that weird fluffy stalactite insulation you find in some parkades. That stuff makes me shudder.
I hate them! Our condo has them and I wish we had scraped them off before we moved in. My parents scraped all of theirs off and did the knockdown texture posted above. Looks so much nicer.
@soon2bhis: asbestos was used in contruction in Canada between the early 1900s until about 1970s. Unless you live in a pre-1980s home you probably have nothing to worry about, but to be safe if you are going to remove it you can ask an asbestos inspector to check it out.
@Ms Mini: I love that look as well!!
I do not like the popcorn look, but I did have it before we bought our first home.
I have popcorn ceilings... I love them... when I can't fall asleep at night I find pictures in it like the stars... lol yeah I'm lame and an insomniac.
My house growing up had them - I would lie in my top bunk and crumble the little pieces off with my toes when I was going to sleep as a child. God only knows what horrible chemicals I got in my system that way!!!
I never really liked them, even growing up, so I would prefer not to have one. But it wouldn't be a dealbreaker for me. And I certainly would never notice them in other people's homes!
I don't even like textured walls. I wish people would stop using that stuff when building houses.
While it is a step up from the 80s faux wood panelling in my last two apartments, DH and my apartment has popcorn WALLS and ceiling. That coupled with a settling building with crooked walls just makes it a horrible mess. The popcorn patterns doen't even match, the back wall of the dining room looks like they popcorned and then tried to scrape it with the tool you use for masonry.
We bought a house that is fully popcorned ceiling with the exception of the kitchen and family room and we HATE IT. It doesn't have harmful asbestos but it's just dusty and dirty looking (it is 20 years old). We had a contractor give us a crazy estimate of $20,000 to remove it professionally. The hubby and I have been undertaking the backbreaking work of scraping it down one room at a time but it is soooo worth it to see clean white ceilings!
I hate popcorn ceilings!!! Its always dirty and dusty and pretty much impossible to clean. And that crap drops all over the place if you try to dust it. I think it just looks terrible, too. We had it in our house when we bought it (it was built in the 60's), but we tore it down during the remodel. There's no way I would keep it around if we bought another hosue with it.
Meh, kind of indifferent but I would prefer not.
Try growing up in a house with lath and plaster textured walls. Couldn't paint well, couldn't hang up posters, nails would rip right out of it. UGH.
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