When hung correctly, curtains can elongate your walls, making your ceilings look taller. Taking the tile all the way up will visually extend your walls. If you leave a foot or two of wall above your tiles, it will make your ceilings look short.
The same advice applies to cabinetry, where you want to make sure your cabinets are meeting the ceiling, which not only gives you some extra storage space, but also makes your ceilings look much higher. Much like how crown moulding and baseboards painted to match your walls extends your wall height visually, so does carrying that same colour on to the ceiling.
Many people were shocked when we carried the black paint on the walls of our bathroom on to the ceiling, citing that black ceilings would make the ceilings feel extra low, but actually the opposite is true. A dark ceiling paired with a dark wall will make the ceilings feel endless.
Similarly, I carried the light greige on my office walls on to the ceiling in order to minimize the contrast between the walls and ceiling, effectively making the walls look taller than they really are. While I broke this rule in my bedroom for good reason! By creating vertical lines on the length of your walls, you keep your eye moving upwards towards the ceiling, the same way that adding stripes on a wall can lengthen your walls.
Have you discovered any other tricks to making your ceilings appear to be much taller than they actually are?
View all posts by erinkestenbaum. You house is really just so lovely. Once again — well done, and explained with pictures to support the information. Love reading your stuff!!!! Thank you! VERY helpful — and absolutely gorgeous pictures. Thank you for the advice, Erin. What a gorgeous and exquisite home. I love your tips! I have 8 foot ceilings all through my bottom floor and am excited to use this info!
Do you have posts where you detail paint colors in your home? It's completely removing all of the roof, the second floor, and the first floor, then rebuilding the home entirely, including all of the plumbing and electrical and HVAC. It only lacks removing the foundation from being a teardown. Much, much cheaper to move to something existing that meets your needs. Like 5 Save. Meghan B Original Author. I was just looking around realizing the same thing. I love our home I just feel a little claustrophobic!
Like 2 Save. Related Discussions How much to raise a ceiling fron 8' to 9'? Astronomical and not worth it. You might as well sell and build new, this is a huge job with very few pluses.
You need a lot more factual information before you decide what to do, but consider this. Raising the floors will not address the issue of the low walls and low elevation, which means that to leery lenders for your project, all you have done is raise the floors on a structure whose walls are at risk.
If the old part of the house doesn't meet code as far as flood plain, what else about it doesn't meet code?
As soon as you touch the old structure, you need building permits and those will require that every last thing pass the latest building codes. If you have a lot of extra money lying around, trying to save an obsolescent structure with no historical significance might make sense, because you can afford to lose it.
Otherwise, reconsider your stance. I'm back here to thank all of you who helped me with this question. I found another house that is not at all pretty but has a fantastic basement. My offer was accepted and if all goes well, it will be my house. The sellers were in the process of finishing the basement when they separated and put the house on the market. They lifted the house, installed two sump pumps, a french drain, reinforced the foundation, and built a nice new bathroom in the basement.
Now it's up to us to remodel the rest of the house, which will cost a lot less than the foundation work that has already been done. Absolutely -- treat yourself if the tray gives you that luxurious feeling. My 3 kiddos are between , too, so I know the struggle is real! That is the blessing and the curse of building -- you can make these kind of choices, but they are very stressful!
That is enough for me to create our oasis from the munchkins, but we are all different. Foley Development Group 7 years ago. Yup, too expensive. You have to rip everything out to the first floor and start over. Like 3 Save. Darzy, that's a good idea. We also have a few separate rooms that could be opened up. I just worry about doing all the reno work and still being unhappy w the height of the ceiling. Ill submit some pics tomorrow and get some more opinions.
Ill call it renovation recs. Larger windows is a major undertaking, not a minor change. If you dislike this home so much, it's probably cheaper in the long run to sell it and move to one you like better. Thx for your input but I do love our home and am quite attached to it. I think it just needs a little help structurally to fit my preferences. Windows expand the look of any space, so omitting the curtains or drapes all together will increase the feeling of spaciousness.
Again, as you go about styling your space, you want to incorporate items that are themselves or that reflect light. Mirrors are ideal for increasing not only light but also perceived square footage. Hang them on the wall, or lean them up against the wall for maximum effect. In some cases a low-hanging chandelier or pendant lamp can draw attention to the ceiling and make it appear higher. This can work particularly well for staircases but other spaces as well. Another nice trick that you can use when designing and planning a space like the living room for example is to strategically use the fireplace to highlight the height of the room and to draw more attention to the ceiling.
That works particularly well when the fireplace surround goes all the way up. It can match the walls and only add depth to the room. If the ceiling, walls and the furniture attached to them all match and have the same color and look this creates a uniform and seamless transition and as a result the room appears larger and more airy and the ceiling can also feel higher, especially when dealing with a pitched roof for example.
This goes without saying, but if you have a loft or a multiple-story house, leaving aside a space which can have a double-height ceiling creates a wonderfully open, airy and bright ambiance and impacts the entire home. These spaces are usually dedicated to the social sections like the living room. Floor-to-ceiling windows are more and more often integrated into a lot of designs, in particular those with a contemporary or modern vibe. They help to make the ceiling look higher and they open up the rooms to the outdoors.
This ties to the very first idea we mentioned, that of exposing the architectural skeleton of the space. Making the beams more visible helps to draw attention to the ceiling which in a lot of cases is a positive thing. A clerestory window is placed along the top of a wall, at or very near to the roof line. The windows do a lot to add light to a room and to make it appear larger, more spacious and more open.
There are many different ways to integrate one or more windows on a wall, including the option to create an entire grid of windows that takes over the entire surface. This particular strategy can also include a row of clerestory windows which can be cleverly and seamlessly placed at the very top. It can be used in lots of different ways in interior design and a particularly interesting option is to have the ceiling or a portion of the ceiling covered in wood planks.
You can do this for a small area like the space about the kitchen island or for an entire room. Plywood is an alternative to natural wood in many cases. In the case of this project from woodshopdiaries the plywood was used to lower and flatten the ceiling of this big open space. Another beautiful idea is to install shiplap on the ceiling. The shiplap ceiling can be painted white and can feature built-in lighting for a clean and airy mood.
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