Now, for too much rambling about ceilings...

My objection to white ceilings has always been that they tend to look like the inside of a box top instead of part of the atmosphere of the room. The subliminal effect of that, in my view, is to emphasize the long horizontal lines where the wall meets the ceiling, to squash any sense of height, and to make the whole scheme seem unfinished.

You can certainly have different colors in differently colored rooms, but if there is a pale tint of ceiling color that is harmonious with all the room colors, it can pull the scheme together.

Here are photos of two rooms...our ivory living room, in which the ceilings match the walls, and our gray/brown library, in which I painted the ceilings a very pale peachy-pink to add warmth, and to bring out the pink cheeks of the portrait. In the last photo of the other end of the library, you can see a bit of the entry hall, which is painted to seem almost like leather, and the LR beyond. I used the same peach tone in the hall and in the dining room, which was the same color as the library, and then was golden tan, and then terra cotta, and it worked with all of them.

These rooms have 8' ceilings, and the effect was to raise them. I also emphasized the vertical wherever I could...the floor-to-ceiling sheers and vertical lines of the painted paneling in the LR, the proportions of the library cabinetry, and the long windows in both rooms also helped.