Dining Ceiling Designs: Ideas for Small & Large Spaces
Dining Ceiling Designs: Ideas for Small & Large Spaces
Published: 19 Apr 2023 |
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A dining room is an important space where families convene, friends meet, and memories are made. A sumptuous meal can be relished only in surroundings as beautiful as the meal itself. A false ceiling design for dining rooms can enhance and elevate the dining experience with great lighting and aesthetics. Invest in stylish dining ceiling designs instead of opting for boring white ceilings and traditional paint jobs with minimal lighting. A gorgeous false ceiling design for the dining room will not only make dining a great experience but will also leave a lasting impression on your guests.
Let us discover the world of false ceiling designs and find the right ceiling design for your dining room.
What are False Ceilings?
Also known as suspended or dropped ceilings, false ceilings are hung below the original ceiling for functional benefits like heat insulation and for aesthetic purposes as well. False ceilings also conceal hard wires, pipes, and air conditioning ducts. False ceilings help illuminate your room with lights and act a wall accent on the fifth wall.
Top 10 Modern False Ceiling Designs for Dining Room
From gypsum ceiling design for dining room to vaulted false ceiling design for dining room, let us take you through top 10 trending designs for your home.
Small Dining Room Ceiling Design: Tray-Shaped False Ceiling
Small Dining Room Ceiling Design: Tray-Shaped False Ceiling
If you do not want a bulky false ceiling with big shapes, you can always design your own tray-shaped false ceiling design for dining room. A tray-shaped design saves the ceiling height and provides options for cove lighting and recessed lighting. It is perfect for small dining rooms. The best part about this type of dining ceiling design is that it can demarcate your dining area without eating up space and can give a sleek, elegant, and minimal touch to your overall living room.
Vaulted False Ceiling Design for Dining Room
Vaulted False Ceiling Design for Dining Room
Even if you don’t have a roof-shaped ceiling, you can experiment with your tall ceiling height by creating a vaulted false ceiling design for dining room. You can either use simple gypsum or POP to create a vaulted appearance or use hardwood beams to create a roof-like look. For homes with a large ceiling and a dining area with an open kitchen, vaulted false ceilings are the perfect fit bringing texture, character and dimension to an otherwise large room.
Gypsum Dining Ceiling Design
Gypsum Dining Ceiling Design
Perfect for small apartments and cosy dining rooms, a gypsum dining ceiling design helps add creativity and character to a small dining area. To make the most of your space, you can add a pendant-style light fixture with an intricately designed gypsum board above your dining table to separate it from your regular living space. You can also experiment with simpler gypsum dining ceiling designs in smaller dining rooms to save space and achieve perfection.
Classy Coffered POP Design for Dining Room
Classy Coffered POP Design for Dining Room
With a classy, coffered ceiling and panelled walls, you can make way for an airy and spacious dining room and open kitchen concept. Coffered ceilings in neutrals like white, grey, ash blue and wooden tones are a great as false ceiling design for dining room. Their boxy approach easily demarcates the dining area and the kitchen area, while statement chandeliers can draw all the attention. Pristine white furniture or rustic wooden furniture will blend in well with this type of a dining ceiling design.
Panelled Ceiling Design for Dining Room
Panelled Ceiling Design for Dining Room
Panelled ceilings are perfect to create a unified look for open kitchens extending further into a dining area. It is also a great choice to make small dining areas appear larger. Beige or white dropped ceilings as panels give an extended look to walls and ceilings while adding dimension to your dining space. A pendant light or cove lighting looks classy and elegant in such spaces.
Creating a distinguished panelled ceiling with light wood or painted panels also is a great idea for large living spaces with more room to explore.
A neutral shade false ceiling design with recessed lighting is perfect to stay subtle but also differentiate the dining area from the rest of the room. You can opt for minimalistic pastel or that match the colour scheme of your home, and recessed lighting adds to the charm of these lighter shades. Corner lights, bordering lights or geometrically placed lights act as droplets on a clean surface above the dining space. You can also experiment with metal, wood, or other materials for a texture-based approach.
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Wooden Beams for a Rustic Ceiling Design for Dining Room
Wooden Beams for a Rustic Ceiling Design for Dining Room
Indian homes are often seen sporting rustic and traditional flavours in their interior design and decor. Wooden beams paired with a flat false ceiling design for dining room, makes space for texture, natural tones, and natural contrast. It gives a rustic but contemporary aura to your dining area. Recreate a traditional, rooted and country styled home with wooden beams and plants indoors. We guarantee you; this space will hold many gatherings and memories.
Ceiling Paint for Small Dining Room Ceiling Design
Ceiling Paint for Small Dining Room Ceiling Design
Ceiling paint is one way to create the illusion of a false ceiling, or you can go ahead and paint your false ceiling to add character to your dining area. A painted false ceiling in rustic shades or pastel complementary shades creates harmony with the rest of the room. From moody greys to resting pastels, dining ceiling designs can flaunt colours beyond beige and ivory for a cool and contemporary look.
Dark Wood Ceiling Design for Dining Room
Dark Wood Ceiling Design for Dining Room
Dark wood brings in a modern gothic aura to modern homes. And if designed well, it can accentuate your ceiling design with its warm texture. When we say dark wood, most people assume the design will be traditional and country-like. That’s not true. You can use dark wood beams or bordered planks to create a modern, textured false ceiling design for dining room that extends to other spaces in your home.
You can also use dark wood panels with cove lighting to create a modern effect.
Bordered Ceiling Design for Dining Room
Bordered Ceiling Design for Dining Room
When you don’t have the advantage of ceiling height, you can always opt for bordered ceiling design. Bordered ceiling design is creating a dropped ceiling effect only on the borders of the ceiling. The borders can be decorated with panels, intricate POP carvings, wooden beams, or plain lighting. Bordering panel ideas are a great choice for small dining room ceiling designs.
From minimal dining ceiling designs to creative POP design for dining rooms, we hope you have found your match through this blog. In case you’re looking for more information on false ceiling designs for different rooms, we have got you covered. Here are a few blogs that might help you in your home improvement journey:
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