How to arrange a low ceiling

In Khrushchevs and other buildings of the Soviet era, low ceilings are considered a big problem, which, unfortunately, cannot be fixed with technical methods. If you constantly experience a lack of space, then you are recommended to visually increase the height of the room, turning to some design techniques. Today we’ll talk about how to arrange a low ceiling and add spaces above your head at least visually.

Content:

1. The problem of low ceilings
2. Low ceiling finishes
   • Glossy ceiling
   • Mirror ceiling
   • Volumetric ceiling
   • Other techniques
3. Low ceiling lighting
4. Wall decoration options
5. Furniture and decor elements
    

The problem of low ceilings

Three components of the premises of a city apartment are walls, floor and ceiling. In this combination, the ceiling can serve as a background or act as the main accent. With the help of a well -finished ceiling, you can reduce or increase the space of the living room, create a chamber or solemn environment in the interior of the apartment.

For most apartments of the old layout, low ceilings are common. The height of the ceilings in the apartments of the Khrushchev development is close to 2.4-2.5 meters, and this exerts some moral pressure on the inhabitants, not to mention the visual component of the issue.

In small rooms, such as a bathroom, an entrance hall and often a kitchen, low ceilings are not particularly noticeable and they may not make a real problem. It’s just that in a small room, a person will have to throw his head strongly so that the ceiling falls into his eyes, and only then he will pay attention to him.

In more spacious rooms, it is advisable to take measures so that the ceiling delights and attracts attention. It is simply impossible to cope with this drawback alone with technical methods. Nevertheless, nothing is impossible in the design, so even such a small apartment can be brought into a stylish proper look. They do this through different techniques that relate to the design of the low ceiling and walls, the choice of lighting sources and decorative elements.

Low ceiling finishes

Most city residents are not those lucky who live in spacious apartments with a high ceiling. The first thing where it is recommended to start in this situation the finish of the low ceiling. It must be produced in accordance with some rules.

Glossy ceiling

The ceilings low in height can be decorated with a glossy stretch of a cold shade. For a visual lifting of the ceiling surface near the walls, the ceiling is slightly lower around the perimeter, the shape of a low ceiling can be any. The use of light shades makes the ceiling surface, which is painted in such colors, visually more distant.

Light-mestern and white-gray tone looks good. Gray and light blue shades will also be priority if you have very low ceilings in your house. Objects and surfaces of green and blue are also visually like a ceiling from the viewer. But in any case, remember that the walls in a room with a low ceiling should be decorated in brighter than the ceiling, which positively affects the perception of the height of the premises.

Mirror ceiling

The dream of many owners of Khrustevo is a mirror ceiling that creates the illusion of infinity. But a real mirror on the ceiling is not the safest design. Ideally, it should be a suspended structure, which consists with a metal frame and small mirror panels in size, which are fixed on it.

As an option, you can use a mirror strip instead of a border. A mirror located to the ceiling is able to create an interesting optical effect and add volume to the room. The mirror at this height will not bother you with your reflections.

Instead of a real mirror, mirror polystyrene panels are more often used in our time. The installation of such a design in a low room will lower a few centimeters down, although this deficiency leve the illumination of heights, because there is a second floor with a transparent floor. If possible, then such a solution can be selected for the living room, hall, kitchen or bathroom.

Volumetric ceiling

If the apartment has low ceilings, volumetric ceilings will help to visually help them. The ceilings of the caisson type may seem above. You can use not very large moldings by gluing them to the surface transversely. Moldings should be lighter than the space inside the resulting rhombuses or squares. This space is recommended to be painted in a darker and cold color the ceiling in this case as if it will delve into.

Try not to use the stucco decor of the ceiling, which visually makes it even lower. In extreme cases, you can use only thin stucco molding specially designed by low ceilings.

Other techniques

If the design of the room allows, the low ceiling can be visually lifted by arranging on the ceiling of the beams. In this case, the beams must be painted in a white or other light tone, and the ceiling itself is in a smoky darkened color, then it will visually rush up.

The original way of visual raising a low ceiling is to use in the interior of a decorative painting and the so -called fraudulent technique. It is this technique that will turn the surface into a landscape, which goes into the future, into exotic flowers or something similar, which allows you to visually change the scale of the room.

A spectacular technique that is suitable for a children's room or bedroom: decoration of walls and ceiling with a heavenly pattern. At the same time, the border with the wall and the low ceiling in the house must be blurred, so the top of the room will seem endless.

Low ceiling lighting

An important factor that affects the height of the ceiling is the light, which is a good assistant in creating optical illusions. Therefore, it is so important to choose the right lamps for low ceilings.

Here are the main techniques that should be followed when decorating low ceilings:

1. Provide more light. The brighter the light, the higher the ceiling seems.
2. It is better to use lamps, guiding light not down, but up. You can remove the pressure from the stretch ceiling using the installation along the perimeter of the premises of several lamps-brushes, the cryphones of which are directed by the hole up.
3. Include local light sources in the design of the premises. Such light accents can create a cozy environment and distract attention from low ceilings. Bright light expands visually the rest of the less illuminated part of the room.
4. The backlight will help to raise the walls and the low ceiling, which is installed at the floor level.
5. A good option for designing a room with a low ceiling is a rejection of a bulky suspension chandelier in the center of the room. It is better to distribute lighting along the walls of the room.
6. But when it is still impossible to abandon the chandelier, then give preference to a small flat plate lamp, the room will become visually much higher. An additional sensation of freedom and air is able to give a special chandelier for low ceilings, which has the appearance of the dome.
7. You can increase the height of the ceiling using a suspended ceiling lighting.

Wall decoration options

When decorating a low ceiling, wall decoration is also of great importance, which will help to optically increase the height of the room:

1. The simplest solution to the use of wallpaper with a vertical pattern. It is important to remember the measure. Bright wide strips around the room will not help, they will rather give a room to some squat. It is best to use a dim and discreet pattern. It can be not only a strip, but also a plant or geometric ornament. And if you want bright stripes, then it is recommended to include them with accents, in the appropriate place, for example, to allocate some kind of functional zone.
2. For a visual increase in the low height, you need to paint the walls or stick wallpaper close to the ceiling surface, as shown in the photo of low ceilings. Wide borders in the tone of the ceiling steal a height at the room, so it is better not to use them, or to color the walls of the walls, or use very narrow borders.
3. To increase the height of the room, add heights to the walls let them go to the ceiling surface. To do this, paint a low ceiling at the walls in the color of the walls, or glue wallpaper, starting from the ceiling. The sizes of the strip on the ceiling that you give the wall will depend on the dimensions of the room. The more they are, the more the ceiling can be used. But in any case, do not take more than 30 centimeters from the ceiling. In small rooms, 5 centimeters are enough. But in too small rooms (up to 12 square meters) this technique should not be used.
4. This technique refers to games with color: you can paint a low ceiling with a similar color as the walls, but lighter than several tones.
5. The stylists have the following rule: not to hide the shortcomings, but to emphasize the advantages. The same trends are applicable in the design of apartments. To distract attention from the low ceiling, it is worth attracting it to another object, for example, to the floor. You can cover it with brilliant or glossy varnish. This gives the floor of the depth, which means that the volume in the entire room is added. You can use glossy tiles or other material that has reflective properties.

Furniture and decor elements

How to decorate low ceilings, we examined, now we should figure out which furniture and decor elements to choose so that the ceiling height seem acceptable. Preference must be given to high and narrow cabinets, racks and racks, while it is better to abandon bulky furniture in favor of more neat and minimalist.

Vertical elements in the interior structure elongated spaces and correct the proportions of the room.
If you add small chairs and low magazine tables to the above large furniture and sets, then such games in contrasts will give the impression that the ceilings in the room of a rather decent height.

If you increase the height of the doorway, make the doors almost to the ceiling, this will help to visually raise ceiling floors. An excellent alternative to the door extension by adding on top of the transmigion. Sometimes you can generally abandon the use of the interior door, replacing it with a high arch made of drywall.

The window is also recommended to stretch up. At least visually. You can achieve a similar effect by buying a light translucent tulle. Curtains for low ceilings should be selected long. The curtain must be hung directly under the ceiling itself. Well, if at the same time a little fabric is lying on the floor. Vertical folds on the curtains, vertical drawings or stripes also contribute to an increase in height. In the kitchen, according to the same principle, it is worth using vertical blinds.

The design of the room with low ceilings should consist of objects of vertical elongated form of mirrors, floor lamps and vases. The installation of wall and wall elements of radiators, paintings and aquariums should be made slightly higher than their normal location.

Thus, a low ceiling is a kind of character of housing! The design of the low ceiling can be charming and cute, or it can escalate the feeling of closed space. All in your hands! And finally, remember what you can not do in a room with a low ceiling: you can not divide the wall with wallpaper or borders, since any horizontal are contraindicated, you can not use wallpaper with a large pattern, you can not hang a massive chandelier.