Today we're going to talk about bulkheads. Again.
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thousand subscriber in honor of twenty thousand subscribers I decided to take a
question from the last video and answer it directly right here last week's video
was a design lesson video and it was all about bulkheads and how to deal with
bulkheads in your home if you haven't seen that video I'll link it below it's
full of great solutions for your pockets we've talked about how to conceal your
bulkhead how to decorate your bulkhead and even how to extend your bulkhead
having said all that all of those great solutions in that video
would really benefit somebody who is just about to embark on a renovation or
somebody who is handy themselves they can do it themselves but if you can't do
that or you can't afford a renovation and you're just stuck with a bulkhead
what do you do with your buckets well the best way to conceal your bulkhead is
still to paint them and Don's little cakes pose the most important question
do you paint your bulk it to match your ceiling or your wall honestly it's a
great question because I get that question all the time so here's my quick
easy tip
you decide whether your bulk it is part of your wall or part of your ceiling
it's never both so if your bulkhead runs along the wall or the perimeter of a
room then I feel like your bulkhead should be painted the same color as your
wall because you don't want to emphasize your bulkhead and you definitely don't
want to bring your ceiling height down below that bulkhead so if you paint your
wall all the way up to the underside of the bulkhead you paint the underside of
the bulkhead as well the same color as your wall and then the front face of
that bulkhead all the way up to the ceiling that means that that entire line
including your bulkhead will now be painted the same color as your wall so
the idea is that you want your bulkhead to blend into your wall you want to
lengthen your wall all the way up and including the bulkhead that way your
ceiling height is where your ceiling height should be if you did the opposite
and painted at the ceiling color your ceiling would inevitably come down to
where the underside of the bulkhead ends which means you're bringing your ceiling
down and in almost all aspects of interior design you want to enhance your
ceiling height and bring them up as high as possible visually as well as
physically if possible if that bulkhead is running through the middle of the
room and not along the perimeter of the walls then that bulkhead should become
part of the ceiling you would never paint a bulkhead that sits in the middle
of the room the same color as your walls because now you're just bringing more
attention to it again the idea is that the bulkhead will just disappear into
the ceiling so there you have it it's up to you to decide whether your bulkhead
is part of the wall or part of the ceiling but it should never be both a
big no-no is painting the front face of a bulkhead the same color as your wall
and then the underside of your bulkhead the same color as your ceiling that's a
big no-no because it just brings more attention to the bulkhead you don't want
to focus on your bulkhead thanks for watching this tip everybody thank you to
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thank you thank you thank you if you have any other questions about bulkheads
or any other interior design questions please leave them in the comments below
it could become the topic of our next video just like this one
thanks to Don's little cakes for a green question see you soon
so imagine your ceiling here and then you'd have a drop in your ceiling in the
middle right so there's your bulkhead and your ceiling