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Who does not love the interiors of homes with towering ceilings? Without a doubt, a house with a high ceiling is a great opportunity for any professional in architecture for decoration and innovation in design. It is high ceilings that offer an extra opportunity to take advantage of space and allow the designers to create a much more lucid interior design. But, be careful, if the decoration of a house with high ceiling and the use of space in various dimensions is not well considered, the room may look disproportional. Often we tend to think about the distribution of our houses on the floor, that is, taking into account only their surface (length by width), forgetting about the third dimension, the height.
Another issue that must be taken into account when we have high ceilings is to think in 3 dimensions and not in two, because when it comes to air conditioning a house, we would need to get the right temperature and humidity for a surface but for a volume; when the volume is greater, it will necessarily imply a greater energy consumption when it comes to air conditioning or heating the space. Therefore, it is important to control the height where it is necessary to make the house energy efficient. These issues that can become negative aspects of high-ceiling homes are easily controllable with the right mechanisms. Play with false ceilings, attics, unevenness, etc. will allow you to meet the objectives of making the most of the house, not waste energy and enjoy the charm of high ceilings at the same time. Let's see what some of these resources are, that can be used to take advantage of high ceilings.
When we talk about high ceilings we should rather not think of those palatial-looking interiors with towering windows and very high ceilings. Having a height of 3 m is in itself considered good luck today (most common floors have around 2.4 m). Heights of this magnitude allows you to use resources to take greater advantage of the space and create really interesting environments. For this, the use of false ceilings will be an ideal mechanism because it will allow you to enjoy, at least, two levels on the ceilings. With this, you can give movement to the space, creating transitions that will make the circulations between the rooms of the house much richer.
This is the resource used in this beautiful house rehabilitated by the degoma team, where the ceilings are lowered in the circulation spaces, which helps to give more value to the height of the main rooms. If you do not have high walls but love the look of them, here is how you can make your walls look higher.
Playing with false ceilings is always recommended and you can take advantage of the areas where the roof goes down to create an extra storage space. The designers have, however, made accessible this space that is between the false ceiling and the floor as seen in the picture.
You can also use the lowest level of ceiling for the passage of facilities or to place recessed lighting, footlights and any other type of light that does not go on the surface. Playing with light will also help you to increase spatial richness, as is visible in the image.
If the height of roofs is very, very high, the idea of the false ceiling can directly lead to an attic. The concept is similar: play with the heights of the roofs, creating spaces at different heights while gaining a space that we can take advantage of for another use.
In the house shown in this picture, the designers implement this resource to differentiate the dining area and the living room, which share the same high-rise space. Thus, creating a more intimate environment for the living area, while also gaining a space for reading area that looks out onto the main space. See more mezzanines: a great way to create more space in small home.
When we have very high ceilings in a small house, thinking about the third dimension and taking advantage of the whole volume of it is almost obligatory. Winning an extra living area, a small bedroom or a relaxation area, will serve to free the lower area, leaving the house more comfortable. This type of decision, in addition, will serve you to give more value to the house, because we will expand its usable area and the possibilities of it.
If you have a house with high ceiling heights, not only do you have the possibility to play with that roof, we can also resort to level changes in the floor. These types of solutions are not suitable for anyone, since you have to take into account that it means creating physical barriers within the home. But if the people who will enjoy the house do not have any mobility problem, without a doubt, playing with level changes in the floor is a resource that generates a great spatial richness. It is very appropriate in diaphanous spaces to create differentiated areas within it, as it happens in this living room and the adjoining dining room, as they increase the privacy of spaces without losing spatial fluidity, generating very dynamic interiors.
We have talked about the use of roofs and floors in houses that have high ceilings, but what about the walls? The walls of this houses with high ceilings can be used for many purposes like storage and decoration. You should rather plan and not waste this blank canvas that the house offers us!
The color can be one of our great allies to play with these walls and loads of expression into space. Here are 7 wall designs that bid good bye to blank and boring.
We can also use the high walls to place a large format picture, a composition with frames of different sizes in which to place beautiful pictures or you could install a large library, as is visible in the picture. Here are 6 wonderful ideas to decorate homes with high walls.
What would you do if you had higher ceilings at home?
