Ceiling Design with Gypsum Board, Flight of Imagination

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Photo 1 — Variants of suspended ceiling in an apartment

Photo 2 — Variants of suspended ceiling in an apartment

Suspended Gypsum Board Ceiling. How to Make Your Apartment Original and Uniquely Personal

A suspended ceiling made of gypsum board will add a unique touch to your design and provide a real playground for imagination. In principle, you can build a suspended ceiling yourself. However, if you are not confident in your abilities, it is better to call professionals.

Thanks to modern technologies, you can create both simple and unusual ceiling shapes today. Decorating a suspended ceiling is now a true art form. In this article, you will see photos of the most beautiful ceiling variants.

You can paint the ceiling in an unusual color, organize lighting or built-in fixtures. Or maybe you want a patterned ceiling with unusual ceiling patterns? Gypsum board allows you to create stylish relief structures of any geometric shape (ovals, semicircles, square or rectangular projections, etc.). Gypsum board ceilings can be both regular flat and multi-level with creative built-in lighting.

If the height of your room allows it, you can make a two-level or multi-level ceiling. In this case, you can play with geometry and perception of the interior. Multi-level ceilings help eliminate chandeliers, for example, by replacing them with distributed built-in lights. Built-in lighting, by the way, allows better room zoning.

Photo 3 — Multi-level Gypsum Board Ceiling

Photo 4 — Lighting Option for Suspended Ceiling

Besides, such fixtures add more warmth to your room and allow you to adjust the level of lighting (if several groups of lights are connected separately). This way, you can vary the room's illumination from intimate half-darkness to bright light. Moreover, nowadays, if you use energy-saving bulbs, it is impossible to apply a dimming mechanism as was possible with regular bulbs. In addition to the number of lighting elements, you can also make the lighting color.

This will fundamentally change the feeling and atmosphere in the room.

By the way, let us reveal a small secret. In fact, a ceiling made of gypsum board cannot be called suspended in the literal sense of this word. This formulation implies that the structure is in a suspended state and not well secured. But, this is not our case. Gypsum board ceilings are mounted on a solid and rigid frame; otherwise, due to its fragility, the gypsum would simply crumble and crack at connection points.

Due to its versatility, a gypsum board ceiling can be integrated into any interior style (from classic to hi-tech). Various combinations of color, form, and light will make transforming your room an exceptionally creative activity.

Besides a pure gypsum board ceiling, there are also combined variants. For example, incorporate a stretch ceiling into the construction. Its glossy surface will stand out and attract attention.

Photo 5 — Combined Ceiling

You can make a sloped ceiling or create something like a real starry sky. You can create your own miniature universe with planets, stars, and comets right in your bedroom. The starry sky effect is achieved either by applying fluorescent paint (then the pattern won't be visible in daylight) or using a stretch ceiling. In the latter case, the effect is created with optical fiber and a light generator.

Optical fiber does not require electrical wiring, which increases the safety of this beauty. The light generator allows creating color shifts or twinkling stars and changing colors. However, do not forget that a "starry sky" ceiling will reduce the height by exactly 30 cm. If desired, you can make the entire ceiling "starry" or enclose your universe in a separate circular, oval, or square area.

Photo 6 — Starry Sky Effect

Photo 7 — Starry Sky Effect

Photo 8 — Starry Sky Effect

If you are a fan of the East, then a ceiling styled after the Yin-Yang symbol will be an excellent interior solution for you. The circular structure in the center of the ceiling with point lighting, a pattern, individual parts of the pattern spaced apart... Your imagination will suggest the best option. If desired, you can make photo wallpapers on a stretch ceiling (though this beauty will cost quite a lot). However, if you do such a thing in a child's room, you can delight the little one with running clouds smiling sun, a field of daisies, or a scene from a fairy tale. Lying in bed, your child will enjoy the fairy-tale view and develop imagination.

Photo 9 — Yin-Yang Style Ceiling

Photo 10 — Yin-Yang Style Ceiling

By choosing the right lighting, you can achieve a "floating" ceiling effect. Indeed, this is possible on a ceiling with at least two levels. Upward-facing light fixtures or hidden LED strips will provide this unusual "floating" appearance.

What is a floating ceiling? Of course, it won't actually float in water. But this structure, according to specialists, will be beneficial for people in homes where there is gradual settling. In this case, a two-level ("floating") ceiling has no rigid attachment to the walls.

Photo 11 — Floating Ceiling Effect

Photo 12 — Floating Ceiling Effect

Gypsum Board and Stretch Ceilings in the Living Room. Gypsum Board Ceiling Design in the Living Room: Details and Nuances

Now we will consider how to best decorate gypsum board and stretch ceilings in the living room. You cannot disagree that the living room is one of the main rooms in an apartment. It is a place for family evening gatherings, a place for guests to gather. In any case, it is, in essence, a public space, and its decoration should be approached seriously. With numerous photos and projects online, it is easy to select the appropriate gypsum board ceiling design for the living room.

Do not forget that your ideas and fantasies regarding ceiling decoration should fit into the overall room design. For example, if you plan to make a room in the countryside style, a glossy stretch ceiling will look inappropriate. However, it suits modern or hi-tech styles well.

So, what are the advantages of gypsum board in living room ceiling decoration:

• Using structures, you can zone the space;
• Gypsum board allows convenient placement of additional (spot) lighting;
• The material is easy to install;
• It helps complicate the architecture of the ceiling itself.

Using gypsum board structures, you can visually divide the living room into thematic zones. Adding stretch ceiling elements, spotlights, and complex structures can create an unmatched atmosphere in the living room and expand the space.

IMPORTANT! If you have a living room with an oriel, spot lighting will help illuminate and highlight this niche effectively.

Photo 13 — Living Room with Oriel

Photo 14 — Living Room Ceiling Design

Photo 15 — Living Room Ceiling Design

Gypsum Board Ceilings in Children's Room. The Child's World

Gypsum board ceilings in children's rooms are an excellent opportunity to turn a regular room into a wonderful fairy-tale world. Besides standard gypsum board constructions, with your imagination you can create fragments of fairy tales, thematic decorations (like the sun, sky, or a fairy tale forest) on the ceiling. Gypsum board and cheerful colors will make the child's room fun and pleasant for the child. Below, you can see photos of "children's" ceiling variants. Additionally, combining stretch and gypsum board ceilings will help divide the room into zones.

Photo 16 — Children's Room Ceiling Design

Photo 17 — Children's Room Ceiling Design

Photo 18 — Children's Room Ceiling Design

Photo 19 — Children's Room Ceiling Design

Photo 20 — Children's Room Ceiling Design

Gypsum Board Ceilings in the Corridor

Gypsum board ceilings in the corridor are already a familiar matter. The corridor is, in essence, a transition from the outside world into your inner domestic world. Therefore, you can boldly add an arch made of gypsum board, for example. Symbolically. Additionally, a suspended ceiling gives the opportunity to diversify the lighting if you don't want to restrict yourself to just one bulb on the ceiling. A corridor ceiling usually does not require such detailed design as living room ceilings. Photos of ceiling decoration variants are below.

Photo 21 — Corridor Ceiling

Photo 22 — Corridor Ceiling

Variants of Gypsum Board Ceilings. Types. Photos

Ready-made variants of gypsum board ceilings (types, photos) can easily be found online.

As we have already established, a ceiling can be made single-level and thus simple. This is perfect for interior styles like country or Provence. If you want to add a unique touch and the room height allows it, then you can confidently build a ceiling with two or more levels. This will give the ceiling volume and completely change the perception of the room.

Photo 23 — Single-Level Ceiling

Regarding interesting ideas for solving the "ceiling issue," you can create a "starry sky" in your bedroom (how to achieve this effect, we have already written above). Gypsum board ceiling can be mounted with false joists, either rough or lacquered. They will create an atmosphere of a countryside, colonial style, or shanty style in the room.

Photo 24 — Joists in Ceiling Design

Photo 25 — Joists in Ceiling Design

In bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens, people often use not only strict geometric shapes but also so-called "waves." They create a feeling of warmth in the room. Hidden lighting in them looks very stylish.

Photo 26 — Ceiling with Waves

Photo 27 — Ceiling with Waves

Photo 28 — Ceiling with Waves

There are also arched ceilings. They come in two types:

• A clean arched ceiling (half-circle). The ceiling smoothly transitions into the walls. This variant suits people who have apartments with very high ceilings.

• A vaulted ceiling (in the shape of a segment of a circle). The diameter of the circle significantly exceeds the width of the room. This variant suits residents of Khrushchyovkas with low ceilings.

Thanks to the properties of the material, you can create a butterfly, clouds, or castle outlines on your ceiling from gypsum board. Now you are not bound by strict shape limitations, so you can create your unique design.

Photo 29 — Arched Ceiling

Beautiful Gypsum Board Ceilings. How It's Done in Other Homes

Beautiful gypsum board ceilings. As we have already discussed with you in the article, gypsum board gives builders and those who want to transform their apartment boundless opportunities for imagination. If you wish to find out how it's done elsewhere, we will show you the best fashionable and beautiful ceiling decoration variants.

Those who prefer strict geometric forms can make two- and multi-level ceilings with square, circular, or oval structures. Those who prefer strict classicism can make a single-level ceiling but creatively arrange light sources.

From ancient antiquity, we have brought the coffered (lucarnae) ceiling. What does this strange word hide? Coffer ceilings today lighten the structure, improve acoustics, and decorate the room. This variant is often used in baroque or empire interior styles in spacious rooms with large windows and high ceilings. The word "coffer," by the way, means a polygonal depression made in the dome.

Photo 30 — Coffer Ceiling

Photo 31 — Coffer Ceiling

If the height allows, you can make a dome ceiling. Then you can place a chandelier inside the dome, and the room will slightly resemble an opera hall. Of course, such a style is not suitable for everyone.

Photo 32 — Dome Ceiling

Gypsum board is also often used in attic finishing, although it is less popular than wood. Usually, after finishing with gypsum board, it is covered with wallpaper or painted with water-emulsion paint. (Learn about combining wallpapers in interior design).

Photo 33 — Attic

Photo 34 — Attic

Often, ceilings are combined—both gypsum board and stretch ceiling elements are used. This approach gives even more opportunities for creativity.

Curved ceilings are achieved using flexible gypsum boards (e.g., from "British Plasterboard" or well-known to all "Knauf"). Curvature visually highlights a definite zone in the room. It also looks very original compared to regular squares and ovals.

Photo 35 — Curved Ceiling

$ Cost of Gypsum Board Ceilings

In Russia, the cost of installing a single-level ceiling is 600 rubles per sq. m. Installing wiring for spotlights costs 150 rubles per piece. Spotlights in Ukraine can be purchased from 20 UAH for the simplest one to 500-600 UAH.

In Russia, spotlights cost from 15 to 1000 rubles.

Gypsum board in Ukraine can be purchased from 30 to 80 UAH per sheet, depending on its size. Usually, Knauf's GKL is available in the market. In Russia, GKL from manufacturers such as Knauf, Belgips, and Volma is popular. The cost is from 200 rubles per sheet.

The approximate cost of a GKL ceiling for 10 sq. m in Ukraine is from 2400 UAH (material GKL, profile, about 700-750 UAH, install the profile and secure GKL 700 UAH, finishing work plus material 1000 UAH). Gluing the frame costs 30-40 UAH per meter.

The cost of a stretch ceiling for 10 sq. m in Ukraine is approximately 2000 UAH.

In Moscow, a gypsum board ceiling will cost approximately 350-450 rubles per sq. m. A stretch ceiling will cost from 150-200 rubles per sq. m.

Profiles for gypsum board in Kiev will cost your wallet from 15 UAH per piece, in Moscow – from 30 rubles.