Looking Up
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 Sara Story’s purple-canopied kitchen got me thinking about ceilings. I love color or pattern overhead. Either subtle or bold, embellished ceilings invigorate a room. Here are some interiors with colorful ceilings or decor treatments overhead.
All trellised up: Kelly Wearstler Interior Design
TOP LEFT, Domino; RIGHT, TOP RIGHT, M. Design Interiors Inc.; BOTTOM, mmatins via Flickr
TOP LEFT, image via Apartment Therapy; TOP RIGHT, Domino; BOTTOM, marvelitsky via Flickr
TOP LEFT, Domino; TOP RIGHT, ooh_food via Flickr; BOTTOM, I Love You Pink by Benjamin Moore on the ceiling, Jamie Drake, House Beautiful
Monochrome beams and ceiling: Sills Huniford Associates
TOP, high gloss ceiling by John Willey Interior Design LLC; BOTTOM, a satin-finish sky blue, Domino
TOP LEFT, one color for walls and ceiling, Fuse ID; TOP RIGHT, Barry Dixon, House Beautiful; BOTTOM LEFT, Tom Scheerer, House Beautiful; BOTTOM RIGHT, Country Living
Saturate the space in one medium or dark color, such as moss, warm dark gray, or chocolate brown. Use it on every door, every ceiling, the trim, the window frames and the door frames, as if you're dipping the whole room in a bucket of paint. It takes away all the boundaries and you're left with the infinity of the universe. It's like Houdini came in and decorated. BARRY DIXON
Understated glam: Silverleafed Chinese tea paper, Courtney Giles, Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles
TOP LEFT, silver-leaf ceiling, Domino; RIGHT, hand-ragged metallic oil-based paint via Maison21; BOTTOM, Sills Huniford Associates
Click here for step-by-step instructions for gilding your ceiling. { Photo source: Gilded Planet }
TOP, my apologies — source misplaced; RIGHT, M. Design Interiors via Design-Crisis; BOTTOM LEFT, Leslie Klotz, House Beautiful; BOTTOM RIGHT, stripes in perspective, Domino
TOP, ceiling by Swedish surface designer Lisa Bengtsson via Design Find; BOTTOM, cherry blossom canopy at Cooper-Hewitt, eden elizabeth via Flickr
Fabulous: decoupaged ceiling via Design*Sponge
Exquisite: painted Shinto temple porch ceiling, Shinjukuku, Japan, IwateBuddy via Flickr
paint, silver leaf 
Reader Comments (3)
what i wouldn't give to trade in my gross popcorn ceilings for any of these fine examples. this is an awesome round up
Great round up! Paint makes a low ceiling seem so much cooler, for lack of a better word.
That black kitchen is one of my favorites!
Hey Karly and Erin, did you see I swiped one of your photos? The M. Design Interiors photo. Thanks!