Alright, I realize I left you hanging on the ceiling for a really, really long time. So, here's the update and big reveal. After putting another coat of gray on the walls they looked pretty good and I felt it was time to start the ceiling transformation. Keep in mind I only needed two coats of walls because I used a paint plus primer. I fully believe that obtaining good coverage over that chocolate brown color would have required at least three (maybe four) coats of paint with a normal paint. I've used Behr paint to paint every room in my house (except the kitchen) and the last three rooms I've painted I've used Behr Premium Plus Ultra (paint plus primer). I love, love, love it. It covers great and seems to come out very true to the color I chose.

Anyway, without further ado - the "tin" ceiling. After painting the walls and making sure they were fully dry I taped off the walls with blue painters tape. In hindsight I wish I'd used that new Frog tape (the green stuff) as I did get a little feathering of the metallic paint onto the walls. Once the walls were taped I proceeded to cut in around the entire ceiling using a 2" brush. And then I rolled the first coat of metallic paint on using a 6" roller with a pretty thick nap to get into all the crevices. This did cause some splatter and I know I ended up with little "sprinkles" of silver paint on my face (in my hair, on the toilet, the sink, you get the idea).

Here's a picture of the cutting in process:

The first coat seemed to take forever and due to the sheen of the metallic paint it was really hard to tell where white ceiling tile was showing and where it wasn't. You can see in the pictures below how spotty the coverage looks.

 

I put two coats of the silver metallic paint on to get the coverage I wanted. This just so happened to be two jars of the Martha Stewart Living MSL Metallic Polished Silver paint. 

These two pictures really show how the silver paint makes the ceiling POP.

While DH wasn't too sure about painting the ceiling silver in the end he's really happy with it and that makes me really happy. I think painting the ceiling made the room finally feel finished. Before I always felt like the ceiling was unfinished, as though it was begging for someone to give it some attention. Now the ceiling gets plenty of attention for all the right reasons.

All that's left is to put up some final pictures and give you a final cost breakdown. That's coming up in an upcoming post. I promise it will come sooner rather than later.