How to Redesign Your Ceiling

Hey Guys! Its is Kim Myles, how are you doing? You keep on turning these questions and I keep on coming up with the answers, so hopefully you find that helpful and today, we are talking little ceilings. Right, everybody has them. We'd do it for lucky any way. And you spend a lot of time looking at them lying on bed, looking at the ceiling, lying on the couch as one of those design moments that can be a real after thought. But, I feel like you know what, let's take some opportunities to perhaps turn them into a feature. So, the first question actually comes from Terry. Terry wants to know what I think about painting ceilings. Should you paint the ceilings or should you paint with separate colors or what go are going to paint in it, should it be the same color as the wall color? Here are some guidelines. And bear in mind, these are rules. Yes, you could paint the ceiling with the same color as your walls, if the walls are nice light color, that is impressive, but if you're working with a deepening blue, dark brown, dark red, saturated dark wall color, painting the ceiling with the same color, you can end up in a really dark blue box. So, here's what to consider. And there are more options than just pure white ceilings. Safe bet, paint a neutral tone on the ceiling. So, something that's kind of medium level, not dark, just a medium not too bright. Another thing to consider is that if you know, have a great wall color that can work with blue, blue on the ceiling is beautiful. Sky blue, Robin's egg blue, Tiffany box blue. Those three types of blues that are beautiful, work really-really well in the ceiling, because they proceed away from the eyes so that make a feeling feel higher and our room feels more expansive. I think a bright white feeling is totally fine, most of the time, but I think that yes definitely, if you are working with color in the rest of the space, just giving that ceiling a hit of the same color, makes a big difference and makes the room feel cohesive. Ceiling is the limit on this room guys, so experiment, have fun. Our next question comes from Runae and O'Brien (ph) What's up? How you are doing? I miss New York. Runae wants to know, what to do, about having an A framed roof, because basically that means, you have a slanted ceiling to deal with and what do you do with that, how do you make that feeling make sense and how you keep everything in scale? I think you need to think about put lighting you got on the space, because with an A framed roof that is a perfect back drop just some really beautiful pendant lighting. That's a great opportunity to showcase lighting as sculpture. I think if you treat it that way for just having everything else in the space. Somehow try to counter balance, this huge roof has - that becomes a the huge job, well if you just take a simple approach, put in some light, hard wired, beautiful lightings, suddenly that roof has a reason for being and it's there to show off the lighting of the space. Furniture here is the thing, scale is everything. So it really depends on how, high the walls are. You need to think about that you have walls and space. And so the furniture scale needs to reflect that. So, nothing too tiny, nothing too thinky, really substantial pieces, that take up a little bit of visual room. But first, deal with the lighting. I think if you'll be able to light in Runae you realize the furniture is not as a big deal as you think. Our next question comes from Ilene McCartin (ph). Hi Ilene! And she is wondering how to make her small looking living room feel less cave like. There are four windows in this space, but she still feels that it's dark and everything is really low, because it's sunken. She's wondering if perhaps doing molding along the edge of this ceiling will draw the eye up and effectively help kind of raise the roof on the room. Ilene, I mean that is a great option. Molding definitely is accurate molding, always, always, always draws the eye up. So back to a great idea, but this is really one of those things that goes back to what I was saying at the top of this session, you guys think about painting the ceiling, a cool reflecting color. So, even though you have four windows, I would say picking a high gloss paint for the ceiling which I know sounds crazy, but high gloss reflects light so you will bounce more light around. And if you do something that's pale, but has a hint of color, I think you'll find that it feels much less dick. Because you -- your eye goes up, just like it one with molded, you go uh! Something is happening out there and then instantly it feels more expansive. So think about color, but - Hey! At the end of the day I think you're dead on with the molding. So, the molding is a great way to go, definitely give it a try.