Ceiling Design Ideas For Living Rooms
4 min readAre You In Need of Ceiling Paint Designs or Need A Fresh Room? Designs on the ceiling that complement a room can add interest to the space, or change the feeling of the room. From a classic beam, to rows of recessed panels – each type offers a different benefit when it comes to your living room!
The white hem of this room lets more modern design elements – such as its geometric rug and blue sofa – shine. Adding paneling also creates an extra layer of warmth and structure in here.
Black Ceiling
Ceilings are usually not noticed in a room, but using dark colors or paneling for an accent can be very noticeable in the first place. Black ceilings can make for a dramatic centerpiece in a rather drab room décor scheme.
Modern dark grey shades like graphite and charcoal are great for this design but navy or Sherwin Williams Iron Ore look just as great on walls. Paint even more with white furniture and pattern decorative accessories to keep space bright.
Go big, and paint the walls to match your black ceiling for a great and sharp look that won’t detract from the style. Here, in this boxed beam living room, for instance, the dark green painted ceiling compliments the green in wood trim and rugs to do this.
White Ceiling
White ceilings have a clean and open feeling and make rooms seem bigger or smaller. It’s also fantastic with other colours on walls to make the ceiling stand out.
An old-world look from viga beams gives this living room ceiling design a Southwest feel without all the heavy wood. These hollow painted-white beams brighten up the room for a cosy feel that invites rest.
A monochromatic ceiling color is classic and minimalist, which brings a feeling of relaxation to any space. Neutral is a soothing color while still having furniture, art, and pillows to be centrepieces. If you use one color on both walls and ceilings, this makes your room seem more efficient; use it for huge rooms with vaulted or angled ceilings, too; go a shade darker than trim color so they don’t compete visually.
Coffered Ceiling
Coffered ceilings are a classic architectural accent that gives dimension to any space. These ceilings consist of recessed panels in geometric grid designs and can easily be shaped to fit your décor.
Lower coffered ceilings hold up visual momentum, for instance this mahogany study’s octagonal caffers are panelled to a soft wood edge.
Decorations such as this herringbone pattern can stand out in a coffered ceiling, and re-unify it. Artworked beams like this also sculpt all of this together. Yet whereas tray and vaulted ceilings do not need much support because they have structural failure, coffered ceilings need more support and may not be a great fit for every home, but if you do it the right way it can be an eye-catching feature that really makes any room look good.
Paneled Ceiling
If your room’s architecture does not permit concrete beams, then paneled ceilings can be a nice alternative. This living room ceiling design gives a bit of personality but still lets rugs and furniture do the talking.
Lighter wood panels like ash or birch are great for contemporary décor instead of wood panels. Their saffron shades visually lower an arched ceiling and go well with pale walls and upholstery.
Buy stock moldings and get a low cost coffered ceiling by making large recesses in a flat ceiling with stock moldings. This is a traditional ceiling pattern that looks great but doesn’t leave you with any sound echoes. : If you’re looking for more detail or detail, make sure to arrange them in a random way for a very specific artistic effect.
Beam Ceiling
Wooden beam ceilings are rustic and charming in any living room, vaulted or not. Solid wood beams discarded from old wood that has had saw blades cross-cut into them are nice and rustic; faux beams achieve similar visual effect at lower weights.
Boxed wood beams are a more muted decorative element where the weight of hardwoods doesn’t make it into your room; Whittney Parkinson has deployed them in this living room design, hanging them above a striking light fixture but not taking up too much room.
An accent beam can also complete a living room with added colour and design. To get this effect, you can paint it to the same colour as the walls or the room furniture.