How to Visually Raise Low Ceilings?

Designers often encounter low ceilings in apartments. Solving this issue is quite simple: we share the most effective tricks.

Paint it in the same color as the walls

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

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Choose a wide baseboard

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

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Camouflage 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 trick of designer Elena Skutova for visually increasing ceiling height.

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Leave a light strip near the ceiling

Designer Olga Chernenko did not paint the walls all the way 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 by Studio Mihail Novinsky.

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Add vertical elements to the interior

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

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Redirect attention to the floor

For this purpose, Anna Erman chose a larger-than-usual parquet on the floor: it distracts attention from the small room size, making the ceiling seem higher.

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Use lighting

You can install a light strip around the perimeter of the ceiling so it seems to 'float' in space. But it's even simpler to add light fixtures with long suspension chains, as in the project by Bureau 'Common Area'.

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