How to Visually Raise Low Ceilings?

Designers often encounter low ceilings in apartments. Solving this issue is not complicated: we share the most effective techniques.

Paint it in the same color as the walls

Ekateryna Logvinova used this technique when decorating a studio apartment. The space turned out to be airy, and the ceilings seemed weightless.

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Choose a wide baseboard

A wide baseboard in a small apartment helps 'scale down' the proportions: visually, the space seems larger, and the ceilings appear higher. See how this technique was used by designers from Studio '20:18'.

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Mask the baseboard and cornice

The wide baseboard and ceiling cornice in this house are painted the same color as the walls. This is a favorite technique of designer Elena Skutova to visually increase ceiling height.

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Leave a light strip near the ceiling

Designer Olga Chernenko did not paint the walls up to the ceiling, but left a ten-centimeter white strip. A great alternative to a ceiling cornice.

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Paint in black

In small spaces like hallways, black graphite paint and mirrored walls can help 'dissolve' the ceiling into the space, as in the project of Studio Michael Novinsky.

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Add vertical elements to the interior

You can use wallpaper in vertical stripes, hang posters of vertical formats, or use moldings. Alternatively, install a strip partition, as in Anna Shvetz's project.

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Draw attention to the floor

For this purpose, Anna Erman chose a larger-than-usual parquet pattern on the floor: it diverts attention from the small room area, making the ceiling appear higher.

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Use lighting

You can install backlighting around the perimeter of the ceiling so that it literally 'floats' in the space. But it's even simpler to add pendant lights with long chains, as in the project of Bureau 'Common Area'.

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