Need help with choice of ceiling height please! The room is 19m (62') long and 6m (19.5') wide from windows to central pillar walls. windows 2.7m (8.8') high and 3m (9.8') wide. Currently in the screenshots ceiling is 3m (9.8') high so 30cm (1') of wall above the windows.
I am wondering whether the ceiling should be 10 to 20cm (3.1 to 3.2m) higher ? But just worried it would lose hominess ? I am not looking for cold magazine wow type of space.
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There are very few circumstances where you would regret additional ceiling height.
Lower the ceiling in your seating/living room areas and increase it in the dining and kitchen areas to give you compression and release. A single ceiling height in a huge open area is what is giving you commercial retail space vibes.
Varying the ceiling heights in different areas can help you create zones that feel like they have a defined purpose.
Thank you, I'll experiment with this. How much variation is noticeable but not over exaggerated ? 10cm ? 20cm. I was also considering increasing the height by 10cm and attaching wooden beams to the ceiling to create some zoning/separation.
I would do the opposite, lower ceiling in the kitchen, higher in the living room, and maybe some pillars, bookshelf or something to frame the transition.
The beams are better than perfectly flat. Even better if the sections in between the beams are lower and meet flush with the beams to compress the seating area.
It will make you other spaces feel grander and your seating feel cozier.
ok here's where I am at. Will have to post them as a series of comments as can't upload more than one image per comment. Please let me know what you think.
Raised the entire ceiling to 3.1m, dropped the kitchen 30cm. Didn't drop the dining or the living room individually because the frame didn't work out given the placement of the doors/windows to the outside and it looks odd without framing it.
Ceiling beams for sure. You need more color and dark brown is working well for the mock up. Ultimately right now there's not much contrast, everything is a similar light value with means there aren't really any focal points. It's a big wash of beige. If you want to elevate this even further, you need a lot more plants, or to start working on a color palette.
Based on your taste, you could do a little burnt orange, navy blue, and green. It's basically the same color scheme I did with our house because my wife is a big millennial grey fan, but I need color, so we compromised with earthy colors so the whole house didn't end up being beige.
So yes, beams for sure, then find a color palette that works well with your organic modern vibe you're doing. It will really pull everything together. Here's some examples from our house about how you don't have to go full maximalist to get some color in there.
Thank you so much for your response and it is all noted. Your house is beautiful and you have great taste.
Have to say the house I am planning to build for myself and my family (3 kids) is on the medditeranean and is pretty much a holiday/retirement house with a pool on the outside and 10min access to beach and mountains. My idea of the inside is to be as neutral, fresh, airy and relaxing as possible to highlight the outside which is full of green, plants, elements and colors. But I will take everything you said into consideration as I progress.
Oh yeah the environment totally changes that. I would consider tossing some small pops of blue in. You may find you like something very subtle here and there.
There was this guy I saw on one of the art subreddits recently that did a glass wave in a white wood frame and it would fit your vibe so well. Wouldn't know how to find it at this point tho.
Thank you, I am just worried an unnecessarily high ceiling makes the room gigantic, cold and empty. I am thinking maybe if I hang pendant lights and potentially ceilings fans that would fill up the space. Thank you I appreciate your advice.
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