Home Interior Design

For those of you home interior design enthusiasts who have a little extra spending available within your budget, lowering parts of your ceiling, in specific areas of your house, can create individual character from section to section, yet have the rhythm of one complete theme throughout the home.

The most common home interior design ceiling plans include: Lowered Hallways, Dropped Soffits, Floating Shelf, Ceiling Height Hierarchy, and the Lowered Alcove.

Lowered Hallways: Because most homes that are built today have home interior design ceilings all created with the same height as the other rooms, the hallways give the feeling of being too tall in comparison to their width.

By lowering the ceiling height of the hallway that leads into a specific room, that room will appear much larger and spacious once the person enters. This effect, although an illusion, is a wonderful outcome due to the different contrasts of the two ceiling heights.

Dropped Soffits: If you are into home interior design as a hobby, then you probably are familiar with soffits that are typically over kitchen cabinets. Dropped soffits work exceptionally well because they give the room more character and offers an excellent surface design for recessed lighting.

Some people think that having dropped soffits will make the room feel smaller, but quite the opposite is true as the room is actually made to feel taller.

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Floating Shelf: Floating shelves are the perfect home interior design addition that allows one space to look and feel separate from another space, yet both areas are within the same room.

When a floating shelf runs alongside an open space, it creates a feeling of division between two open areas, yet does not appear “stuffy” by obstructing the space entirely.

Ceiling Height Hierarchy: In order to help identify which particular space is more important than another, your home interior design plan can utilize ceiling height hierarchy.

For example, you might have a small study area that is connected to your master bedroom. You can lower the ceiling over that study area to give it a less dominant appeal, allowing your master bedroom to remain the dominant space of the two areas.

Lowered Alcove: By having a professional home interior design planner create a sense of importance for one area of a room over another, much similar to the ceiling height hierarchy above, a lowered alcove ceiling implementation is a perfect fitting. Doing so will help accentuate the difference between the smaller area and the adjacent spaces around it.