I can’t comment on the colors but definitely paint the ceiling- this is the time while it is vacant. In my experience ceilings look ‘fine’ until the walls get freshly painted.

I'd have him paint it all because the new fresh walls will point out the "several years faded" factor sooner or later. Which means they will be back sooner not later. That 1K won't cover the job then.

You didn't mention which sheen you are using on the walls? Often I have some of the wall color mixed into ceiling white (Charlotte Moss trick) or tinker with the wall color (because the exact same color on ceiling can look darker than walls sometimes) and end up with the entire envelope the same shade. In your case, with soaring ceilings and with a goal of layered whites, I'd probably have the White Dove mixed into ceiling white to keep the walls and ceiling close in color. But in truth, doing it all White Dove would work just about as well.

Thank you so much.

It looks like my pros here on Houzz all agree, paint the ceiling!

With that, we open up new options for “white”.

Should we go a little lighter in the ceiling only keeping walls and trim in the same color. (Semi gloss for trim, eggshell for walls/ceiling?)

Firstly, a ceiling will always appear darker then the wall when they are painted the same color. I would definitely cut the color even if you want them to look the same.

Secondly, are you sure about eggshell on the ceiling? Most ceilings aren’t prepped well enough to handle that much sheen as most people use flat paint on ceilings. Eggshell will show every flaw (of course your ceiling might be perfect)

Please tell me what to do for finish. I obviously don’t know what I don’t know. “Ceilings are flat, walls eggshell, and trim semigloss.” ???

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I want to say that for a complete understanding of space need to see the space itself, you can create photos of the space in which you want to use paint ?

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