How to Plank a Popcorn Ceiling

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Every room has the ugly popcorn ceilings. We have scraped some, but this time we decided to plank over the top of the popcorn!

Every room has the ugly popcorn ceilings. We have scraped some, but this time we decided to plank over the top of the popcorn!

How to plank a popcorn ceiling? It’s easier than you think! With inexpensive tongue and groove planks from your local home improvement store, it turns an ugly popcorn ceiling into a room with a wow factor!

The master bedroom has “great bones” as they say, but the popcorn ceiling had to be the first thing to go. It’s a nice large bedroom at 320 sq. ft.

Here is the ugly popcorn ceiling before we started, showing our grid lines, marking where the ceiling joists are. Use a stud finder to locate where the joists are and mark them with a chalk line. You will want to run your planks in the opposite direction, nailing them across the joists.

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