Can you, sure, its your house. I would do that at least as a temporary fix if I did not want to paint the entire ceiling.

It’s our daughters home (their first home). There is so much they have to do before they move in and they are spending a small fortune! Just trying to get by for now.

I've painted a kitchen ceiling while we lived in a home and used the kitchen. It's not as daunting as it sounds. Just a lot of tarps but if you do the areas over the counters all at once and you're careful to not overload the roller, it can go up in a few hours. Your solution looks nice too. Congrats on their first home! 👏

Yikes. I don’t know if they can tackle that. They have to replace all the flooring in the entire home, paint everything and replace countertops. Plus a ton of other stuff. Painting the ceiling seems hard (they are not very handy - lol). Now they do have to paint the ceiling in the basement and that will get interesting! Haha. Great kids. They just work crazy hours and have so much to do.

Painting a ceiling in a kitchen that needs new flooring and countertops should be stress free. A couple of youtube videos showing how to use painter's tape and plastic sheeting, and load a roller, and clean up will get them started.

I think that looks like a great solution. If they have many other things to devote resources and energy on, why spend them on doing the entire open ceiling for now. Switch out the current with this combo and move on to something more pressing.

Exactly Amy thank you. I just wanted to make sure this would work before ordering. Previous owners did not maintain this home at all for the 17 years they lived in it. So many things to do and they have to prioritize.

Painting the walls will make the ceiling look dingy. It isn't easy to do a ceiling but not so horribly difficult that a homeowner can't do it for a normal height ceiling.

Size also depends upon what is actually under there. What is there now, isnt covering all of it. I see some sort of hole or gouge at the one end. I agree, ceiling probably should be painted regardless.

If you click on the photo you can see the entire thing. The guy that lived here "thought" he was an electrician. This just looks sketchy. They really don't have it in them or the budget to have the ceiling redone. I know it would be better... maybe the painter can give them a quote.