The ceiling in the living room makes the interior more elegant, elegant and incredibly comfortable. In combination with well-chosen lighting fixtures, it creates an impeccable background and fills the room with aesthetic appeal.
Recommendations for choosing a ceiling
For a successful decor you need to take into account a number of design features of the room:
- For a small living room in apartments, such as Khrushchev, single-level constructions or multi-level models with a partial arrangement on the ceiling surface are suitable.
- In a long and narrow hall, square or rectangular ceilings would be appropriate. They will visually expand the space.
- Multi-level products with a complex design will be best suited for decorating a living room with a high ceiling.
- For a harmonious and organic look of the ceiling structure, it is necessary to take into account the proper arrangement of lamps and fixtures.
Types of ceilings
The main types of ceiling structures.
Suspension
Divided into several types:
- Rack. Reiki of different colors always look very original and allow you to arrange the living room in almost any style.
- From plasterboard. Universal products from GKL are quite popular type of finish. With their help, you can realize an infinite number of design decisions.
Tensioner
Such French models have a variety of textures, due to which you can give the living room a modern and unusual appearance.
The photo stretch glossy ceiling with patterns in the hall.
PVC panels
They have a huge variety of colors and textures, can have different lengths and widths.
Wooden
Universal wooden decoration is environmentally safe, is easy to install and goes well with any style solution for an apartment or a country house.
- Lining.
- MDF panel.
Mirror
Looks just great and forms a very elegant design. This model can be used both throughout the area of the room and fragmentary.
Venetian plaster
Consists of lime and marble chips. These two main components allow you to create a surface with a characteristic pattern of this stone.
Wallpaper
Vinyl, paper, liquid or other types of wallpaper, not only perfectly hide minor defects and shortcomings of the ceiling surface, but also provide an opportunity to create an interesting design of the ceiling.
In the photo there is a small living room with a ceiling decorated with liquid wallpaper.
Glass
Visually expands the room, creates in it an unusual light effect and a feeling of weightlessness. The best choice would be stained glass.
Colored
Budget and at the same time a fairly high-quality finish, which allows you to create a perfectly smooth and neatly decorated ceiling surface.
Caisson
It is composed of beams interconnected, forming niches of various shapes. Caisson designs create interesting visual effects in the hall and change its geometry.
Variants of ceiling structures
There are three main types.
Single level
A smooth ceiling surface located in one plane, despite its simple appearance, is capable of creating a completely original picture in the hall. By feng shui single-level model is ideal because it does not have sharp drops.
Two-level
Visually changes the geometry of space, zoning it and hides flaws. These models can combine various materials and create incredibly interesting designs.
Layered
It has a special functionality, it is in perfect harmony with all the elements of the decor, emphasizes certain parts of the room and just gives the living room a very stylish look.
Varieties of texture
The following types of surfaces are distinguished:
- Matt.
- Glossy.
- Sateen.
Ceiling colors
The color palette sets the mood for the whole interior and creates a certain atmosphere in the hall.
The black
The presentable black color gives the room chamberness and integrity, and transforms space beyond recognition.
The photo shows a black and white two-level ceiling in the living room interior.
White
The traditional look of the ceiling design. White visually increases the height of the room, makes it much lighter and more spacious and forms a light and airy design.
Green
Depending on the saturation of the hue, green can create a calm and peaceful or, on the contrary, bright and rich interior.
Beige
Unobtrusive beige color can add luxury to any living room.
Blue
Adds to the room of tranquility, freshness, extra space and a feeling of unlimited space.
Brown
This color always looks respectable and expensive. He brings to the interior of the room coziness and warmth.
Gray
Classic shade, which is often used for decoration. Gray will be a great solution to create a calm and unobtrusive design.
The photo glossy stretch ceiling gray in the hall.
Blue
The cool and discreet blue brings coolness to the room and gives it visual depth.
How to make a ceiling?
Interesting ceiling decoration ideas.
Soaring
With the help of LED strip, located around the perimeter of the ceiling structure, it creates the feeling that it is floating freely in the air.
The photo shows a single-level suspended ceiling in the hall.
With beams
Decorative beams made of natural wood or cheaper artificial materials, divide the ceiling into certain areas and are an excellent high-grade element of the decor.
Combined ceiling
A variety of amazing double combinations of materials, allow you to create unusual combined multi-level designs in the hall.
Patterns and drawings
Original patterns and drawings, located on the ceiling, not only give the interior uniqueness and unusual, but also make it more complete and emphasize the style.
With photo printing
Products with photo printing have many different compositions, which, due to their realism, create the effect of volume in space and make it spacious and open.
With stucco
Heavy plaster or lightweight polyurethane moldings, is an integral part of a luxurious, expensive and fashionable interior in the hall.
Two-tone
Proper combination of colors will form an attractive appearance of the ceiling structure. Bright combinations will look extravagant and catchy, and more pastel - calmly and succinctly.
Carved
Artistic openwork slits allow you to create the illusion of three-dimensionality in space and visually resize the room.
Forms of figured ceilings
Various shapes and forms attract the views, give the ceiling plane volume and make its design truly individual.
- Geometric shapes. Circles, squares, ovals, rectangles allow you to adjust the irregular geometry of the living room and visually increase or decrease its size.
- Curved shapes. Radial ceilings in the shape of a wave can create a symmetrical or intricately curved original composition.
- Flowers and vegetation. Such exquisite and unusual configurations always look very stylish and beautiful.
- Difficult shapes. Incredible complex shapes of irregular shape can turn any interior into an individual design project.
The photo shows a spacious living room with a false ceiling in the form of squares and rectangles.
Ideas for lighting the ceiling in the hall
Properly selected lighting allows the ceiling not to lose its original and modern look.
Backlit
Various lighting, located in a niche or around the perimeter of the ceiling structure, creates in the hall a two-zone lighting and an interesting light-dynamic effect.
In the photo room with suspended plasterboard ceiling, decorated with lighting.
Chandeliers
A classic lighting option that plays a central role. For low ceilings in the hall fit flat chandeliers, and for high pendant lamps of various designs, most suitable for the ceiling.
Spotlights
Perfectly zoned space and make its geometry more consistent.
Spotlights
Can be used, as as additional, and the main lighting. Soffits, located around the perimeter of the hall, make the interior more harmonious and create in it the illusion of a large space.
Spots
They have a directed luminous flux, which can be used in the right direction, thereby focusing attention on certain objects in the interior.
Built-in lights
They create a soft unobtrusive emitted light, but at the same time provide maximum artificial lighting in the hall.
Photos in various styles
The ceiling will make the picture of the interior of the living room more holistic and harmonious.
Classical
In the style of a classic or neoclassic, single-level or stepped designs in light pastel colors, complemented by luxurious chandeliers, soffits, light bulbs, decorated with stucco or edging in the form of baguettes or baseboards will be appropriate.
Modern
Ceiling models with clear geometric shapes and straight lines will be an excellent complement to the modern style. Their color scheme depends on the general background of the room.
Loft
Simple models in monochrome shades, without unnecessary details and decor, do not violate the freedom of the room, made in the style of a loft.
Provence
Natural wood products or materials with imitation of natural textures, perfectly emphasize the French style or country country music, which at the same time combine luxury and simplicity.
High tech
Single-level glossy coatings or multi-level designs of complex shapes will become an integral element of high-tech style.
The photo has a black glossy stretch ceiling in the high-tech style hall.
Minimalism
The ceiling, made without excess, perfectly emphasizes comfort, unsurpassed aesthetics and ergonomic minimalist style and creates the perfect balance in the hall.
Chalet
Natural types of wood trim in natural colors complement the cozy and natural chalet-style interior and create a relaxing atmosphere in it.
Pictured wooden ceiling with beams in a small living room, made in the style of a chalet.
Custom solutions in the living room
With the help of a diverse ceiling design you can arrange unusual solutions in the hall.
With bay window
The oriel zone can be singled out in an original way with the help of a suspended podium or it is interesting to highlight it with spotlights and thus make the bay window a special element of the whole living room.
With fireplace
Ceiling models allow you to successfully highlight the fireplace area, using various color transitions and textures or lighting.
No chandelier
Instead of a chandelier, you can use other types of lighting. They will give at least a quality level of lighting and at the same time do not hide the volume of the hall.
With stairs
Proper placement of the ceiling structure will allow you to create a harmonious and comfortable design and it is interesting to beat the stairs, as an additional element of the living room.
The photo shows a combined white-beige ceiling in the hall with a staircase.
Living room with kitchen
The ceiling produces a clear zoning of the kitchen-living room, visually corrects the shortcomings of this room and simply creates an original and original interior.
Photo gallery
The ceiling in the living room allows you to bring to life any non-standard solutions that will favorably emphasize the overall style of the interior and give it an even more attractive and interesting look.
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