Ceiling Design Tricks to Change Your Room Sizes

We all know that lower ceilings can make a room look smaller while higher ceilings tend to increase the size of a room.  To modify the size of your rooms, you don’t have to make any major expensive structural modifications. Just follow these clever ceiling design tricks to change your room sizes.

Make a Room Look Larger

1. Paint a low ceiling in a low-gloss finish in a lighter color than the walls. The lighter color will give the impression that the ceiling is higher and the glossier finish will cause light to bounce off the ceiling creating the illusion of more space.
2. Trick the eye into seeing a higher ceiling and taller walls by extending the wall paint from five to eight inches past the point where the ceiling meets the wall. To do this measure and tape off a border along the ceiling. Paint the taped-in area a lighter hue and the non-taped area a darker color.
3. If your ceiling is low, make sure you use smaller scale furniture in the room. Keeping all of the furniture the same basic height will draw attention away from the low ceiling and the room will appear larger.
4. Hide the space between the top of the window and the ceiling. Hang your window treatments from ceiling height which will elongate the room disguising the lower ceiling.
5. Paint your ceiling, walls, and crown molding the same color which will downplay where the walls end and the ceiling begins.

Make a Room Look Smaller

1. If your ceiling is extremely high and you want to lower it to add some ambiance to the room, use darker paint colors on the ceiling. This will make an immense room more intimate. Large-scaled, patterned wallpaper on the walls will also draw the eyes downward.
2. Use a paint color that contrasts with the wall color on the crown molding, wainscoting, and trim to detract the eye from your soaring ceiling.
3. Use a statement-making chandelier over a dining room table to focus the eye away from the high ceiling. The chandelier should be hung closer to the table yet not so low as to injure someone.  Tall torchiere lighting arranged between your furniture will keep the eye closer to the midsection of the room.
4. Using two-foot baseboard, wainscoting, bead board paneling, or coffered or dark wood ceiling beams will break up the large area between the floor and the ceiling.

Whether your rooms appear too small or too large, using these clever ceiling design tricks to change your room sizes will help you realize the space you or a home buyer desire for living in or selling your home.

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