[Bubbalarry]

Popcorn ceilings do a great job of hiding the seams and imperfections from showing with the shadows and stuff and thats it. Many homes just showing flat ceilings can easily show the taped seams and joint compound if not done correctly.

My preference on the ceilings/walls is a process they do in Arizona thats done what I heard is called a wet trowel. It is flat compound that has different designs coming off the trowel and drys on top of the drywall. Painted it comes up very nice and the corners of walls are rounded not squared and easier to maintain without having those constant specs of square edges with compound and paint chips showing up every time you knock something into the edge.