Cheap apartments around the world are similar. During construction, the investor tries to save money in order to make square meters affordable. Often, the “tasty” price for the buyer is achieved due to the height of the ceilings. If you do not have magical abilities, this circumstance is unlikely to be corrected, but everyone can make the ceilings look high.
Fixing bugs
First, let's analyze the mistakes that very often lead to the fact that the ceilings put pressure on the owners of the apartment.
When repairing and decorating rooms with a small height, you should not do the following things:
- Paint the ceiling light and the walls dark. This design in a small room creates the effect of a well.
- Use dark saturated colors to paint the ceiling.
- Use short curtains on windows.
- Get involved in stucco, especially in large quantities.
- Hang chandeliers upside down.
- Use lambrequins and other complex designs in the design of windows.
- Use large massive furniture.
- Use too much furniture and decor.
- Apply horizontal lines in the design of the walls in large quantities.
- Use dark decor textiles and furniture. At least it shouldn't be too much.
Raise the ceiling
A cozy home is not a caprice. A low ceiling creates a squeezed effect in the apartment, stiffens it and reduces the space. It is difficult to feel psychologically comfortable in such a place, which means that your plans and aspirations are bound to "hit the ceiling". High ceiling most of all affects the feeling of space in the apartment and is able to visually increase even a room with a small meterage. Designers have some flyhacks that allow you to deceive the perception. Let's start with the simplest ones.
Refuse chandeliers
If there is a lack of height, a voluminous chandelier on a low suspension will make the ceiling visually lower, and the area of the room - less. Instead of a chandelier, you can use spots on the walls. If you want to have a central source of light, you should look for something minimalist, tightly fitting to the ceiling. These can be lamps - plates or tablets that match the ceiling in color.
You can use spotlights or LED lighting around the perimeter of the room, it visually pushes the boundaries of the room. With the task of pulling out the space perfectly cope with floor lamps, sconces and nightlights, the light of which is directed upward.
Redecorate
The classic - white color, which is the simplest and most universal solution for apartments with low ceilings. Cold light shades always visually alienate surfaces and increase space. The effect can be enhanced with glossy or semi-glossy paint.
Important! Lighting fixtures reflecting in the lacquer surface will be blinding, so it is important to choose the right lighting sources (with closed lamps or directed downwards). The view from the window should also be taken into account. If there are objects with neon advertising, they can be reflected in the stretch ceiling.
One color
There is a more original and stylish option - to paint the walls and ceiling in one tone. This blurs the boundaries of the transition from one plane to another and visually gives the room a few extra centimeters. Whatever experiments with color you decide to do, you should remember that the ceiling should be lighter than the walls. If the wall color is too dark, dilute it with white paint beforehand and only then use it to cover the ceiling. Cold shades are preferable. But do not make dark walls and light top in narrow rooms, as there will be a well effect.
Mirror effect
Mirrors have an amazing property to hide many imperfections of the interior and layout. With their help you can visually increase the volume of the room at times, including add height to it, practically without taking up space. A pair of full-length mirrors or a closet with mirrored doors will cope with this task perfectly. A rather bold solution is a mirrored ceiling. It has many disadvantages, but if such a radical approach suits you, the ceiling will duplicate the surrounding environment, as if dissolving in it and at the expense of this increasing the area of the room.
Another way to take your eyes off the ceiling and add depth to the interior is to cover the floor with varnish. The most important thing is not to go overboard. Let one thing shine: the walls, floor or ceiling.
Take the best from the design styles
In cramped apartments, designers recommend using a modern style. Its distinctive feature is minimalism. "Raise" the low ceiling will help beams in the color of the walls or "under wood", especially in the interiors of chalet, rustic, Provence, rustic. However, here it is necessary to approach the decor selectively: such an element is not suitable for every room. Beams are made darker or lighter than the base, it will give volume.
Unnecessary stuff
Spaciousness, brevity and minimalism - three principles that every designer should keep in mind. And for apartments with low ceilings, this is the main rule. Piles of furniture and decor - each additional item will increase the feeling of squeezing. Remember that only the essentials should be on view. This allows you to make the space light, neat and organized. Built-in cabinets and drawers will help with this task. Don't be sorry to part with junk, sell, donate or recycle old things. Make room in your life for the new. Live light.
Window to the sky
Another design technique is a false window. Such an installation imitates a light source and creates perspective. Usually use a lamp in the form of a window, installed in a ceiling niche. You can order a stretch canvas with three-dimensional photo printing. Even cheaper execution: paste a photo wallpaper on the ceiling, and the window frame is made of moldings or wooden overlays. This method is suitable, for example, for the attic.
Fans of bold solutions can recommend a three-dimensional image on the entire ceiling. It can be, for example, a photo of the sky, tree crowns going up or just an abstract pattern with a 3D effect, creating the illusion of volume.
Low furniture
The retinue plays the king, and the overall impression of the room is created by the furniture, so it is very important to choose interior items to take into account the size of the room. Designers advise to play on the contrast: the furniture should be either very high, or, conversely, low. Narrow wardrobes-pennels, resting on the ceiling, will pull the room up, and a squat sofa will add air and enhance the feeling of spaciousness. If the furniture will be slightly smaller than standard, it is unlikely that this will affect your comfort. However, a few extra centimeters above it can sometimes make all the difference.
Doors, arches, niches
If the technical characteristics of the wall allow - increase the doorway in height. The room will look more spacious and lighter. Designers recommend one more trick. You can install a glass transom above the door. A small window in the form of a stained glass window will not only visually raise the ceiling and add light to the apartment, but also become your trick, enriching the interior.
Vertical and horizontal
Women are well aware that a dress in a vertical stripe makes the lady slimmer and taller. This technique works in design as well. Vertical lines pull the space up and add a few extra centimeters to it. You can make striped only one wall, it is quite enough to deceive the eye.
Instead of the usual stripes, you can pick a suitable pattern with a vertical direction, for example, tree trunks.
Wallpaper with a vertical print or paneling made of planks in a vertical position will do. Rhombuses are also successfully used to decorate the walls in tight rooms. Figures are placed at an acute angle to the top, and then they seem to pull out the room. And if you mix them with white stripes, the room will seem more spacious.
Psychologists have noticed that the repetition of the pattern should be 8-10 and more, and it is better when a person can not count them at all. Another technique, when one motif flows into another, and the eye, getting to the wall, wanders along the pattern, not noticing the transition from vertical to horizontal.
Important: Wallpaper should be glued without indentation, up to the top, otherwise instead of expanding, you can achieve narrowing of the walls. If a contrasting color is chosen for the walls, the ceiling skirting board should be painted in the same shade. The walls will seem higher and visually lift the ceiling.
Decor
A few tricks used in the decor allow you to visually increase the living space almost without cost. For example, folds on the flowing fabric on light-colored floor curtains made of organic, silk or batiste are essentially the same vertical lines that will raise the ceiling.
Small statuettes, picture frames and vases that are placed on shelves and countertops should be stretched along a vertical axis. Instead of a gallery of pictures, it is better to choose one large vertical picture with perspective, an elongated narrow painting or photo print, or hang a row of small photo works one above the other.
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