David F. Eisan wrote:
My main question is how to deal with this soffit for paint and
"orange peel" knocked down spray on texturing.
Different scenarios,
1) Treat the entire soffit as the ceiling and texture the side and
bottom of it, paint the entire soffit white like the ceiling.
Works OK but will visually lower ceiling making room height seem less.
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2) Texture just the bottom of the soffit, paint it white like the
ceiling and paint vertical portion the same colour as the body of
the room.
No. That could work if the ceilings were, say, 10' or more and the
soffit height 2' but not as they are. Even then I'd treat the
vertical side of the soffit as a separate entity, different from both
ceiling AND wall.
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3) No texture on the soffit at all, paint the entire soffit the
same colour as the room.
Works OK as long as room walls are untextured too.
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4) Treat both surfaces of the soffit the same but color differently
from walls and ceiling...sort of a transitional detail twixt the two.
For example, white ceiling, red walls, pink soffit. No, I'm not
suggesting either red or pink, just an example to illustrate the
suggestion
5) Treat vertical side of soffit as ceiling, bottom as wall. I think
I like this one best. I might even put a molding at the bottom of the
vertical soffit side and carry wall paint onto that molding. That
would tend to visually extend walls upward and would make a great
paint "stopper".
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You need to decide if the soffit is part of the ceilng or room walls.
If treated as ceiling, it will tend to visually lower same, vice versa
if treated as wall. My personal preferance would be to treat soffit
as ceiling but NOT in this case as ceilings already seem low.
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Being the wood guy I am, I would like to add some crown detail, but
I don't know where or even if I should.
The soffit is already sort of a huge crown. If you just gotta add
more do it at ceiling/soffit. Putting it at wall/soffit will make
walls even lower and - IMO - would look wierd. Really wierd. If I
were going to put something at soffit/ceiling it would be small,
probably a cove.
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The floor and new staircase with be Jatoba. The kitchen cabinets
will be cherry, you can see the rough in for the island beside the
dishwasher. There are lots of new pot lights and rough ins for a
fixture above the kitchen/dining table (in front of the new sliding
door) and pendants above the island.
What are your ideas?
Randomly...
1. A bullnose corner bead on the soffits could have worked well as
long as both vertical and horizontal surfaces were painted the same.
2. I suppose no room in soffit for wall washer pots? They could still
be used for track lights - either on vertical or horizontal surface.
3. Think about what is going to happen when you hang upper cabinets
under the soffit in the kitchen area. How much of the soffit bottom
will be remain exposed? How are you going to treat it? Leave as is?
Cover with molding to match cabinet? Other?
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