How to visually increase the height of the ceiling

Many owners of standard apartments often reflect during repairs on how to visually increase the height of the ceiling in the kitchen or bedroom with decoration and accessories. This is easy to do if you use simple design solutions that are accessible even to beginners, where optical illusions are taken as a basis. But the problem must be solved in a complex, carefully considering all the details. To visually increase the height, you should follow two important rules.

Highlights

It is necessary to correct the architectural elements of the layout, located horizontally. Such details visually shorten and expand the walls. In rooms with low ceilings, do not use decorative panels that eat up the space. In the case when they are an important part of the interior, it is desirable to install them below the commonly used level.

Also, experts advise to use design techniques based on optical illusions. There are many ways to visually increase the height of the room. The following methods are considered the most effective:

• gluing wallpaper or painting walls, carried out without a distance from the ceiling, close;
• the use of elements of decoration, including wallpaper, with a vertical pattern;
• selection of the right colors;
• drawing attention to flooring;
• construction of mirrored ceilings;
• visual lengthening of the wall.

In the photo you can see how the premises look, the repair of which is made using these methods.

Vertical wallpaper pattern

The easiest way to increase the low ceiling is to wrap up the room with vertical wallpaper. But be sure to consider the fact that an excessively wide pattern or large and bright flowers as an ornament will create the opposite effect to the desired. The optimal solution will be unobtrusive drawing. Any discreet pattern, located vertically, will visually increase the height of the ceilings. Fans of bright scenery can simply focus on any particular area, adding a few colorful stripes or drawings for contrast.

The design of a room with a low ceiling makes you adhere to certain rules, the observance of which will lead to the expected effect.

The border in the form of plinth between the wallpaper with a vertical strip and the ceiling can adversely affect the expected result. If you can not do without it, it is better to use a narrow border to match the wallpaper, which does not focus on the interface of the surfaces and does not “tear” the walls.

The maximum effect can be achieved if, sticking wallpaper, get them a little on the ceiling. But here you should take into account the size of the room: in a medium-sized room, the overlap should not exceed 50 mm; the overlap is not recommended when finishing a room of less than 13 square meters. meters

Not necessarily, wanting to increase the height, purchase wallpaper with stripes. They can be applied to any pattern: an ornament of geometric shapes, leaves, flowers. It is important that the picture is placed in a vertical direction and not large or catchy in color.

Painting walls close to the ceiling

The effect of a high room is perfectly created by painting or pasting walls close to the ceiling surface. Designers do not recommend using broad borders or baseboards. They give the opposite result, even if they are painted to match the walls. If necessary, you can install the plinth as narrow as possible.

Shades that increase the height of the premises

Everyone knows that an object painted in a dark color will visually appear less than a similar figure having a light color scheme. This optical effect is also used in interior decoration. To increase the height of the ceiling, it is necessary when painting or pasting walls to use a light color and a cold shade.

At a certain experience with tinting material can achieve the same color on all surfaces. But for very low ceilings still desirable to choose paint for two or more shades lighter than the walls. In this case, the work effect of the "remoteness" of the object having light and shade cold. That is, the ceilings made in a color scheme that visually rise up.

Popular colors that give the room a more voluminous look and increase the height:

• pale green and light blue shades;
• white, milky and creamy;
• white and gray and pale yellow tones.

By combining these colors, you can maximize the height, as bright walls will benefit in contrast with the ceiling. All surfaces of the room, made in the same tone, will make the room higher and more voluminous. The emphasis on the border in the form of a plinth, tearing the overall picture, will have the opposite effect.

Advantages of mirrored floors and ceilings

Visually increase the height of the ceiling can focus on the opposite surface. A floor covered with a material with reflective properties or varnish will have a depth effect, which will give the room extra volume and airiness. As a floor covering, you can use a glossy laminate, tile, any finishing material made using a special technology - a mirror floor.

The use of reflective finishing is a great option for rooms with low ceilings, when the owners have a desire to visually expand the space and increase the height. The photo shows an example of such a design decision. Rooms look not only high, reflective materials give the room originality and a sense of crystal clarity.

It is easy to make a mirrored ceiling, for this purpose several inserts with mirrors are carried out or panels are fastened one to another, forming the effect of a solid sheet. Mirror elements are mounted for safety during operation, on a metal frame that has reliable fasteners.

To date, there is a mirror finish, which has a small mass. The basis of such a finish is plastic or PVC film, not glass. The advantage of using these materials over a conventional mirror is their safety and low cost.

Also, mirror stripes can be attached instead of a border. Only this must be done without indents, under the ceiling.

The combination of a mirror ceiling and a glossy floor is suitable for decoration of any premises, but it looks especially good in the hall and living room.

With the help of interior items

Owners of wooden houses with low ceilings can make beams a few shades lighter than the surface of the base. This creates the impression of a rising surface, and with it gives the room volume and height.

The ceiling will seem higher if the interior of the room consists of low furniture, equipped with vertical elements: handles of an elongated shape, a narrow rack and so on.

You can make the room higher with the help of curtains that will fall to the floor from the ceiling itself. The same effect is achieved by installing high narrow doors and correctly positioning lighting devices. For example, massive chandeliers, popular in Russia, make a room squat and cramped.

Experts use the correct location and shape of two-level glossy ceilings to increase visual space.

In a wooden house

As with the visual increase in the distance from the floor to the ceiling in a brick house, in a wooden one you also need to choose the right color and finishing material. To do this, in a wooden house it is often necessary to spend even less effort and money than in a brick building.

One option is to collect the caissons. In this case, the protruding parts should be darker than the ceiling plane. For coloring you can take any cold shade.

Another option is to install a glossy stretch ceiling with a mirror effect. This creates a visual sensation of height, and the feeling that the ceiling presses on the brain is reduced to nothing. The mirror surface of the floor / ceiling will also visually increase the height, but this option would not be appropriate in every wooden house.

If you need the most budget solution, then just make the walls brighter than the ceiling. To do this, you can stick on the walls colorful spectacular wallpaper or paint them in a brighter color than the ceiling. That is, for a visual increase in height it is not always necessary to think about how to change the ceiling. Sometimes it is enough just to glue the appropriate wallpaper on the walls.

It is not always a visual increase in the height of the ceilings in the room of a house built of wood, is associated with significant financial costs. This can be done with a limited budget. The main thing in this business, to show imagination and creativity.

Using any of the examples above, you can visually increase the height and total volume of the room.

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