During the minimalist-dominated decades that we've experienced in our interior design lifetimes, we've gotten used to slapping some white paint on our ceilings and calling it a day. The top half of our rooms were the forgotten child--to be not seen and not heard, to fade into the upper limits of non-imagination, as we vowed to never again look up come hell or high water (well, maybe water). But leaks aside, the ceiling became a place no designer dared to travel, leaving the largest space in the room devoid of dressing, naked and bare.
But recently, we've grown tired of looking down at our shaggy piles and chevron weave rugs and yearned for a grandness that can only come from above. Facing the risk of a neck crick head on, we have finally noticed the highest echelon of room design--
The Ceiling.
Giving some needed love and attentrion to the summit of our eye space is not a new design trend, but one clipped from the more luxurious of ages-- Versailles, Robert Adam’s homes in Scotland, Otto Wagner’s post office in Vienna, and Grand Central Terminal's astrological heights of grandeur rule the roadways of opulent canopy.
To draw the eye to to the top of the room doesn't require you to forge "The Last Supper", as you dangle upside down from a scaffold. A statement that will bring down the house can be made with a much simpler gesture.
To give your ceiling the design interest it deserves, its as simple as dipping a brush into a a graphic paint color...
...bringing out a headbanging shiny Metallic...
...sticking mirror tiles overhead to bounce the light around the room...
...or using wallpaper that either keeps in the hues of the wall paint or just extend the wallpapered walls up and over to the next level.
Pimping out the upper part of your room adds intrigue to the forgotten space, allowing the eye to take in the entire room, leaving no part behind. The ceiling is the last of the interior design frontiers that will cap off your space in fashion.
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