Home Design Ceilings can be as beautiful as their walls. Ceilings are the “jewelry for the room” according to designers and homeowners have an opportunity to place something unexpected or special on this fifth wall of their home.
Wood has an organic feel if you use it on the ceiling as Cortney Bishop did in this house to create an asymmetrical ceiling with wood elements that coordinates with earthy hues.
Beamed Ceilings
Beam ceilings have always served as a traditional, rustic, warm, dimensional and friendly way of furnishing spaces.
You can paint trellis beams to match or contrast with your ceiling for added drama. Metal brackets make for a nice solution to seams between beams and wood can be interesting too.
For real wood beams in your ceiling it is important that they be sanded before you stain them. It does this to ensure that the beams receive it evenly. Use a pre-stain wood conditioner for best results. Even more so if using dark stains; a sophisticated chandelier like the one in this antique dining room by Creative Tonic Design works well with dark stained beams; contemporary designs make similar combinations by matching with real or artificial beams.
Mirror Ceilings
Mirror ceilings visually open and expand by shining light up, giving an impressive appearance that fits with a modern or luxury design. The mirror ceiling also helps provide the room with more natural light which has positive psychological effects on those who live there as well as people who come to visit.
Anyone who chooses any kind of ceiling for the home design needs to think long and hard if it can accommodate its load and how it needs to be maintained. Installation is absolutely necessary which needs professional as in case of mishaps may be very costly and may result in serious injuries, shatter proof mirrors help with the safety concerns and you should regularly inspect them for proper function.
Mirrored ceilings are a bold design touch that can change any home. Choosing this feature should not be a pop-culture projection of that; seeing the spaces that do this, and chatting to those who have made this aesthetic choice, are excellent ways to learn why they’re so beloved.
Patterned Ceilings
Consider your ceiling the fifth wall – a space to be you, creating character and interest in any room! Patterned paint, wallpaper, wood slats or any design will attract the eyes to look up to make for an impactful focal point in any room.
Dayka Robinson Designs offers you an ordinary living room ceiling painted in multi-color wavy effects for a clean and refined look. These vivid ceiling tiles visually extend the room while working with other elements such as an area rug in their pattern and dark blue walls.
Skip trowel patterns make for a beautiful pattern on your ceiling that glows in the right lighting condition. It can also be achieved by the amateur handyman using drywall compound and a slap brush or roller; its rough texture matches everything from Mediterranean to country styles; and stripes of all sizes work great, as they do on this wood ceiling by Elnaz Namaki Studio.
Photo Ceilings
Photo Ceilings can be a great, innovative solution for decorating your home. Photo Ceilings combine several photographs into a single photo, so you get an image that covers every square inch without distortion, and Photo Ceilings give you a fast and creative method to photograph high ceilings where they’re otherwise hard to get a picture of. This is a particularly useful trick when you’re dealing with homes that have high ceilings and the photography is challenging.
A pattern ceiling is also either an intimate or contemporary space, depending on its appearance. For sleek and flat ceilings, we like smooth or flat but for orange peel, skip trowel, knockdown, swirled and popcorn texture, more is the rage.
It brings rustic appeal to a room with wooden beams, but can be tricky to paint and clean. You might be able to solve it by using stained wood as a ceiling material as it’s an insulator and has little maintenance; or wallpaper, like Amber Lewis’ study with its high-low stripes, which draws the eye upwards to the ceiling’s height and into the beautiful barn rafters.
