Ceiling Decor
Well-Appointed Ceiling
When creating a warm and inviting home environment, it’s easy to concentrate on your home’s floors and wall spaces. After all, these are the areas that naturally draw our attention. However, there’s an important part of every room that deserves equal consideration in order to add style and create a feeling of completion within the room: the ceiling.
It’s a fact: every room has a ceiling. And it’s also likely that the ceiling is the last area to receive attention from a decorating standpoint; many designers even refer to the ceiling as “the final frontier.” But you’d be surprised at how small ceiling details can transform a room and completely upgrade the overall look and feel.
The strategic use of ceiling design elements not only provides the elegant finishing touch to a room, but these embellishments can also help to compensate for a room’s shortcomings. For example, in a room with low ceilings, the addition of crown molding at the edges of the ceiling draws the eye upward, creating an illusion of greater height. In contrast, when you paint the ceiling a darker color than the walls, a room with too-tall ceilings seems cozier.
Coffered ceilings are a versatile way to add texture and interest to any ceiling. These are small square or rectangular panels that are applied to a ceiling; you’ll often find them painted to match or coordinate with the existing wall color. In addition, coffered ceiling design elements such as tin panels provide an interesting contrast to the walls and transform the ceiling into the artistic focal point for the room.
Panel molding applied to ceilings can help to subtly upgrade and add style to the room. Especially if it coordinates with other trim elements within the home, molding details can provide a cohesive cross-linking element that helps to establish the decorative flow between various rooms within a home.
Rooms with chandeliers offer special opportunities for unique ceiling embellishments such as ceiling medallions. These beautiful decorative elements serve not only as a method by which you can showcase an elegant chandelier, but they also enhance the ceiling itself and provide an additional touch of style. With medallion designs available in a number of different shapes and with varying degrees of ornamentation, a ceiling medallion provides the perfect finishing touch for any decorating style.
A ceiling dome offers a similar stylish focal point for a room’s ceiling. Available as an enhancement for lighting or as a decorative element on its own, a ceiling dome provides a sense of completion for the ceiling and adds the illusion of height, as well.
Whatever the decorative ceiling design embellishments you select to enhance your ceiling, the room will become more welcoming and put-together for an environment in which you’ll enjoy spending time.
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In many homes ceilings are the last frontier. After reading this article I walked through the house and noted how bland our ceilings were. I like the idea of panels and corners – it’s a simple enough project – but the results can vbe dramatic.
- David, July 19th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
I think coffered ceilings are incredibly beautiful. I really go “wow” whenever I have the chance to walk into a room that happens to have its ceiling coffered. The molding used really adds so much.
- Chris, July 20th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
I think ceiling domes are a great way to open up a room! I love how there are so many possibilities and options to really make your ceiling pop.
- Christy, July 20th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
I always knew that painting walls a darker color would make the room smaller, but I never really thought about painting a ceiling a darker color to make the room seem cozier. What a great point, and reminder. Of course, you would probably want to do something like that with a room that has huge ceilings.
- Clay, July 21st, 2011 at 10:12 am
We recently added panel molding to the ceiling of our bedroom. I installed it myself, which was a great at-home project and my wife loves it. It certainly changed the whole mood of the room. Now our bedroom feels more like a special place.
- Colin, July 22nd, 2011 at 10:09 am
Coffered ceilings are so cool! I don’t understand how to get that look though–I guess that’s why i’m not a contractor.. I would love to add this kind of beauty!
- Mary, July 22nd, 2011 at 10:43 am
We don’t have tall ceilings, so we decided to put a ceiling dome into our master suite. It has really opened things up and now we’re looking to put a little embellishments along the ceiling with some panel molding.
- Clayton, July 26th, 2011 at 10:02 am
A ceiling truly does add to the room – at least if you do something with it! Adding a ceiling medallion and molding is a great way to add a lot.
- Patricia, July 28th, 2011 at 11:41 am
I can’t get over the ceiling in the photo above. I love the coffered look and will definitely be looking into incorporating this into my own home!
- Christine, July 29th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
I absolutely adore this look. My ceilings are a little low for this, but it gives me some good ideas… I wonder if I make a coffered ceiling with some smaller moldings… do you think that would look good with a 10′ ceiling? I appreciate any input!
- Raquel, August 4th, 2011 at 10:02 am
This is exactly the look I’ve been wanting in my 35 X 18 foot den with 14 ft. ceilings. I know it would be perfect; just don’t know how to do it. (:
- Mellanie, October 19th, 2011 at 7:53 pm