Paint your ceilings — a color for every room's ceiling
Open **Materials → Surfaces → Ceiling Paints**, tap a room on the small plan and pick a color: a one-tap ceiling white or any real Behr, Benjamin Moore or Sherwin-Williams paint. The live 3D view shows that ceiling as you pick. **Apply to all rooms** paints every ceiling on the floor; **Back to white** clears one.
Ceilings start white and stay white until you say otherwise. When you want a warm off-white, a pale blue over the bed or a bold color in a powder room, every room's ceiling can carry its own paint — and you see it in 3D the moment you pick it, without leaving the popup.
Ceiling paint lives next to flooring and wall paint: Materials → Surfaces holds all three. The screenshots use the Medium 2-Bedroom Apartment template.
What you'll need
- •A floor plan with at least one room (walls drawn, or a room created from the size screen)
Step by step
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Open Surfaces and switch to Ceiling Paints
On a computer: in the left panel, open the Materials tab and tap Surfaces (its hint reads Flooring, wall paints and ceiling paints). On a phone: tap Materials in the row at the bottom of the plan; the popup opens on its Surfaces tab. At the top of Surfaces, pick Ceiling Paints. The other two tabs, Flooring Material and Wall Paints, work the same way for floors and walls (see per-room flooring and paint your walls).
Materials → Surfaces: floors, walls and ceilings in one popup. - 2
Tap the room whose ceiling you want to paint
The popup says Tap a room on the plan to paint its ceiling (Click on a computer). Tap a room on the small plan: it gets a blue outline, its name or size appears below, and the live 3D view shows you standing inside that room looking at its ceiling. Drag the 3D view to look around. The rooms are the same ones flooring uses: every space your walls enclose. An open-plan area with no interior walls counts as one room.
Room picked: the ceiling whites appear and the 3D view shows that room's ceiling. - 3
Pick a color: one-tap whites, or More colors
The row of swatches is the quick way: pure white and seven soft off-whites and tints — one tap paints the ceiling and the 3D view updates straight away. Until you choose anything, the button next to the swatches reads White (default). For anything else, tap More colors. The Ceiling color picker is the same one wall paint uses: browse Behr, Benjamin Moore or Sherwin-Williams, search a color by name or code, or open the Hex code tab to type an exact color and see the closest real paints to it. The color you pick shows beside More colors as its hex code.
More colors opens the Ceiling color picker — the same real paint catalogs as wall paint. - 4
Check it in the live 3D view
Every pick redraws the 3D view at once, so compare two or three colors by tapping between them. Drag to turn and look along the ceiling toward the walls — a ceiling color reads very differently next to a painted wall than next to a white one. Tap another room on the plan to move on; each room keeps its own color.
A pale blue on the living-room ceiling, shown live. Back to white and Apply to all rooms appear once a color is picked. - 5
Apply to all rooms (optional)
Happy with the color and want it everywhere? Tap Apply to all rooms. It asks first — Paint every ceiling on this floor (N rooms) this color? — and the button turns to Tap again to confirm. Tap it again and every room on this floor gets the color. It's one undo step if you change your mind. The button only shows when a color is picked and the floor has more than one room.
Apply to all rooms asks once — tap again to paint every ceiling on the floor. - 6
Back to white
To undo a color on one room, tap the room and then Back to white: the ceiling returns to the plain default. To reset a whole floor, pick the first (pure white) swatch on any room and use Apply to all rooms.
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Sloped and vaulted ceilings take the color too
The color belongs to the room, not to a flat sheet, so a ceiling that slopes with different wall heights or carries a cathedral or angled vault is painted across its whole shape. Tap the room under the vault as usual; the live 3D view shows the slopes in your color.
A cathedral vault over the living room, painted with the rest of the ceiling. - 8
See it in the full 3D view, walk-through and renders
The cube in the popup's header (View in 3D) opens the full 3D view; close it and the popup comes back with your room still selected. In the 3D view, ceilings are hidden at first so you can look down into the rooms. Tick Ceiling (bottom right of the 3D view) to draw them. Seen from above, the top of the ceiling stays white on purpose (the color is on the side that faces the room), so to see your paint use Walk through (the footsteps button), pick a room and drag upward to look at the ceiling. Expect it to look darker there than in the popup: the walk-through lights a ceiling only softly from below, so a pale color reads as a deeper, warmer shade. Judge the color itself in the popup's preview. AI Render opens Render Studio with the ceiling switched on, so the view it turns into a photo includes your painted ceilings, and Save image keeps them in the picture too.
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On a phone
Tap Materials in the row under the plan. The popup has three tabs — Surfaces, Picture Gallery and Tile Planner — and opens on Surfaces, with Flooring Material | Wall Paints | Ceiling Paints underneath. The live 3D view sits on top; the small plan and the color choices are below it, so scroll down for More colors, Back to white and Apply to all rooms.
On a phone the 3D view is on top; the plan and swatches follow underneath.
Tips
Keep most ceilings in the whites
The seven off-whites in the swatch row are there for a reason: a slightly warm or cool white reads as a finished ceiling without fighting the walls. Save the stronger colors for a small room — a powder room, a nursery, a reading nook — where a colored ceiling is the point.
Judge it against the walls
Paint the walls first (Wall Paints is the tab next door), then pick the ceiling while the 3D view shows both. Drag the view so a wall and the ceiling share the frame.
Match a paint you already have
On the Hex code tab, type the code from a paint chip or a photo; the picker lists the closest real Behr, Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams colors so you can buy the one you picked.
Common mistakes
Looking for the color on the 2D plan
Ceiling paint never draws on the plan: the plan looks down at the floor, so a colored ceiling would hide everything under it. It shows in the 3D view (with Ceiling ticked), in walk-through, in Render Studio and in pictures saved from the 3D view.
Ceiling ticked, still white from above
From above you're looking at the top of the ceiling, which stays white on purpose. Walk through the room and look up, or open Render Studio, and the color is there.
Judging the color in the walk-through
The full 3D view lights ceilings only softly from below, so even a white ceiling looks greyish-beige there and a pale tint looks deeper. Pick the color while watching the popup's live preview, which lights the ceiling evenly.
Expecting Apply to all rooms to cover other floors
It paints every room on the floor you're on. Switch floors in the floor picker and apply again for the next one.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the ceiling paint option?
Materials → Surfaces → Ceiling Paints. On a computer, Surfaces is the first tile of the Materials tab in the left panel; on a phone, tap Materials under the plan and the popup opens on Surfaces. Ceiling Paints is the third tab inside it, after Flooring Material and Wall Paints.
Does the color show on a sloped or vaulted ceiling?
Yes. The color belongs to the room, not to a flat sheet: a ceiling that slopes with different wall heights or carries a vault takes the room's color across its whole shape (see the vault picture above).
Does it change the ceiling height?
No. Height is set separately — the floor's ceiling height in Plan Settings and per wall for slopes. See wall and ceiling heights.
Is the ceiling color in my exports?
Pictures saved from the 3D view (Save image) and the view Render Studio works from include it, as long as the ceiling is showing. The 2D plan exports (PNG, PDF, print) look down at the floor and never show ceilings, and the GLB 3D model file is exported without a ceiling.
Can I undo a ceiling color?
Yes. Every pick is one undo step, and so is Apply to all rooms. Back to white on a selected room removes its color outright.
Why is there no Ceiling Paints tab on my yard?
A yard floor has no ceiling (and no walls to paint), so Surfaces shows only its Ground Cover. Switch to an indoor floor for ceiling and wall paints.
I don't see a 3D view in the popup
On a device that can't run the small 3D preview the popup says so and offers View in 3D instead — the cube in the popup's header opens the full 3D view with your colors, and closing it brings the popup back.
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