Just re texture the entire ceiling you can texture over the paint. I am assuming the texture is hand troweled? (SKIP TROWEL) I can probably talk you through it. I own remodeling business we do this often. If you need to I can text you
If it's popcorn texture, use a spray bottle with water. Then use a flat blade to scrape it off. If it's a knock down texture skim coat it and reapply another knock down texture.
Put a knockdown finish on the entire ceiling. It's so easy, I did it once and it looked fantastic! Buy the tools at HF and you simply spray a thick texture on the ceiling and use a drywall tool to smooth it out. Probably a cost of around 50-$60.00 total. Son-in-law did a hand texture and afterward he seen what I'd done and he wished that he'd done knockdown. It is quick.
I have done drywall and also found there is definitely an art to it. I have a tendency to inspect finish work while sitting in a room, shoddy work bugs me.
I met a fellow one time who could take sheetrock and make it look like crown molding. He was a bricklayer by trade. A real artist. He had trimmed his whole house in sheetrock and made it look like wood trim.
As conservative as I am, I will pay for sheetrock work. Every time I try, it's usually like socks on a rooster when I get done. And as a realtor, I've seen a lot of it from folks like me. I agree, it's artwork.
Without so much light on it, I'll say it doesn't actually look like crap but I'm still gonna have to eventually do something about the different textures. I hate getting up on a ladder and working over my head.
Yep, I I won't try to match anything over like a 6" circle. I do the whole room. And that's also the reason everything in my house is a trowel on type texture.
My favorite is a very thin skip trowel type texture. Basically thin out the mud and trowel it on as thin as possible without trying to get it perfect. Much of it is smooth in the end with little texture here and there. Easiest to match, looks good and hides joints well.
