We have moved into a 70s home recently with an interior that needs attention. Along with the cream walls and brown trims is a horrible textured paint ceiling. We would like to remove it and have flat white ceilings with new simple cove cornices.
The texture is not like in the American videos on YouTube where you can wet then scrape off the texture. It appears to be hard paint.
I've tried removing it in one of two way. The brown part (looks and feels like brown rough paper) where it came off easily using a scraper to go under the paper/paint.
The white bit was harder to do, seemed like I was removing only the paint but left lots of uneven bits that would need to be filled.
I think sanding would be difficult and messy.
Is the brown bit ok if I was to simply seal/prime/undercoat before paint, have I gone too deep, should I try something else, should I skin coat the whole house ceiling?
Looking to see if anyone else has had this issue and how they went about it?
Thanks all!
