Walls and Ceilings - Removed cottage cheese ceilings - What next?

Need advice:

My husband and I scraped off the cottage cheese texture from our ceilings yesterday. We wore respirators and other equipment as we weren't sure when the texture was originally applied in the home we bought that was originally built in 1960.

So now we have the waterstained drywall showing. What next? How do we finish these off so we can paint them?

I know we need to apply Kilz primer and then paint them but do we need to apply some other product or texture? Is this something we can do ourselves or is it best to hire someone? We don't want the cottage cheese texture again. Do we have to put another texture on there at all? We have also been told that if we don't put a texture on there then it might be kind of echoey since we are thinking of ripping up the carpeting and redoing the hardwood floors underneath.


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All that you need to do is repair any cracks, scrapes or other damage to the seams and ceiling sheetrock, and sand it smooth.
Defects in "smooth" sheetrock will show more than with textured ceiling, so get it as smooth as you can.
Then a coat of Kilz, and paint. Kilz will seal the water stains.
Good Luck!
Mike

Thanks for the info. We definitely appreciate it!
Guess we'll be doing a little sanding first.

Thanks for the info. We definitely appreciate it!
Guess we'll be doing a little sanding first.