Your floorplan can be welcoming. Your walls, conversation starters. And your ceilings can be inspiring.
Many of the decisions you make in your home’s interior design can orchestrate a room or help a floorplan come to life. But nothing can quite tie a room together like its ceiling.
Scroll back a few posts (more accurately a few years) and we talked trends in residential ceiling design in 2019.
We highlighted the simplicity of how a reverse cove ceiling adds a sense of air to the room. We were enchanted by the classic and spacious elegance of a cathedral ceiling. We examined several dazzling, tried and true ways to offer delight above your head.
This week, we’re revisiting this topic to update you and to supplement our past post to help showcase the timeliness of particular design trends. After all, home design is anything but static. As one of the leading custom home builders in the country, we bring our knowledge and passion to you, so you know all the latest and greatest options available when bringing your vision to life.
Illuminating Ideas
Any room can benefit from a unique light fixture. A fixture’s design can provide a much-needed finishing touch in creating a signature look. Distinctive lighting installations also work in tandem to enhance other elements of your home’s design through ambience, accent highlights, or by pulling focus into a particular area. You can create your own installation or use feature lighting. By grouping pendant lights at varying lengths in your kitchen, great room, or dining room you bring the eye up – enhancing the ambience while exhibiting your room’s charm.
Charmed for sure. Multi-pendant lighting brings focus to the living room of this Charleston model home.
Unexpected Color
We’re witnessing a return to painted ceiling trends in 2021. Similar to lighting, color can create focus and coordinate with walls for an overall mood builder. Neutral shades tend to go best when complementing walls, but bold choices can make a statement about your room and your home. Functionally, color can supply a sense of added space and depth. Pops of color in coordination with recessed ceilings in bedrooms, dining rooms, and offices benefit smaller rooms particularly well with surprising and unexpected visual interest.
A painted ceiling creates an eye-catching symmetry in this bedroom.
In Every Subtle Detail
Sometimes, a ceiling design does more than tie a room together, sometimes it extends the room’s design beyond walls and floors. Using wood, laminate and other materials you can extend the rhythm and patterns of a room through textures. Design choices like these can deliver subtle hints towards bold expressions.
Imagine these rooms without their ceiling details. The experience wouldn’t be the same.
A Clean Classic
Coffered Ceilings are a guaranteed way to add interest and dimension. As we’ve written in previous posts, coffered ceilings are an old-world throwback finding new ways to impress in today’s modern homes for the same reasons they’ve been a part of design for hundreds of years: grandeur. An added benefit? While visually a coffered ceiling helps contribute to an illusion of spaciousness and elegance, the coffer design also helps absorb sound.
Rustic Charm
Whether it’s a farmhouse or modern hill country style home, we’re huge fans of the rustic charm exposed beams can bring to a home’s design. We love exposed beams for their functional value and for their aesthetic attributes. Exposed beams can bring interest to any ordinary ceiling with airy confidence. They also work hard in texture and color. What material is the beam made from, what color is it painted, is it finished or unfinished? Each of these choices can contribute in a different way to the overall design aesthetic and feeling. As a custom homebuilder, we let you make decisions like these to reflect your lifestyle and personality.
Ceilings add dimension to the story of a home. Your ceiling selection brings character, charm, breath, and maybe even a little awe. At Schumacher Homes we know you have your own story to tell, we pride ourselves in helping you find a way to get started. Thinking of building a custom home? Contact us today or come to any one of our conveniently located Design Studios to begin your custom home journey.
About Schumacher Homes
Schumacher Homes, based in Canton, Ohio, is America’s largest custom homebuilder, with operations in 32 markets in 12 states across the country. The National Housing Quality award winning company has built over 20,000 homes, customized to fit each family’s lifestyle, since its founding by Paul Schumacher in 1992. Schumacher Homes takes each customer’s inspiration and gives it a home. Each Schumacher Homes location includes a one-stop shopping design studio and model homes displaying the latest in architectural and product trends. Stop in today, be inspired and receive your no obligation price quote.
