I am sorry but your space and your inspiration are not even close a tin ceiling just plopped into a space IMO will always look bad

I say yes. Maybe because I love them too. Patricia, I don't think it will be plopped! Geeze. It may be difficult given the shape of the ceiling but not impossible.

Just because you love them does not make them doable and yes if there are no other spaces with tin ceilings this would be plopped.

Noooo!

Would you settle for Anaglypta Wallpaper instead? You could buy a roll, put it up, and if you don't like the look, just take it down. It would be an inexpensive way to try the look in that irregular shaped room. I do agree with the others above, though. Your room is too contemporary for a tin ceiling, as well as your light fixture. Sorry!

Anaglypta wallpapered ceilings

It's a gorgeous room. Why do you want to screw it up with a tin ceiling? The only belong in traditional environments, and then those tin ceilings are still ugly.

Could you consider doing a ceiling details like this one below?

Don't screw up your gorgeous space with a tin ceiling.

Could you create something like this below?

I vote no.

Thanks for the input! I appreciate all of you taking the time to read my post and offer feedback.

Thanks @My3dogs and @BeverlyFLADeziner for your tactful and considerate responses. These are great suggestions, and will definitely give me a lot to think about.

And @ctlane, I really appreciate your vote of confidence. You have great taste. ;)

While tin ceilings can clearly go horribly wrong, I respectfully disagree with the opinion that they're all ugly, or that they are only for traditional settings. They can be quite beautiful in transitional homes. Our house is transitional, even though the glass panels veer toward the contemporary (again - we have safety reasons for the glass). Maybe this is not to everyone’s taste (and I’m *not* suggesting I could accomplish this look in my dining room), but this transitional kitchen makes my heart skip a beat:

(Peter Salerno)

Obviously, you should do what makes your heart skip a beat! (I wonder why you asked us to vote, though, when clearly your mind is set?) At any rate, if you do end up installing the tin ceiling, please post your "after" photos as I'm sure a number of us who cannot currently envision it would be interested in seeing how this turns out. Sounds like you definitely have a good vision for what you believe will work.

I think a simple ceiling painted with a high gloss /laquer paint would be stunning and suit the style of your house without having to mess with the issues of assymetry and lack of tray.

The high gloss may satisfy your desire to have a wow ceiling but suit the more contemporary lines of your house. Here are a few pics plus one of the Anaglypta wallpaper with gloss paint on it. It may be easier than actually tin panels like someone suggested.

I like tin ceilings but it may be one of those things that if you file away the picture for 6 months and come back to it, you may wonder why you wanted it in the first place. I go through all my saved ideas every few months and find that I delete quite a few pictures that I initially loved.

and then those tin ceilings are still ugly.

Excuse me but that is YOUR opinion only. And you know what they say about opinions.

To the OP. I too love a tin ceiling and had considered trying to put one in my kitchen/dining space. However I realized that even though it would work with my house style, (craftsman), it would not work with the way my ceiling was.

Unfortunately you have two strikes against putting one in your house.

1. as mentioned the house is too contemporary. If you look carefully at your inspiration, you'll see that everything in that house is more traditional.

2. It doesn't work with the shape of your ceiling.

There are other treatments that can be done though. One thing I would probably do is paint the ceiling a dramatic DARK color to help visually pull it down a bit. My 3 dogs mentioned Anaglypta. There is also a product called Lincrusta which has some more contemporary patterns and is a more permanent solution. My first house had Lincrusta on the ceiling.

Both of your inspiration photos are the most successful installations of tin ceilings I've ever seen, and IMO this has to do with the feature being confined to a rectangular inset that matches the dimensions of the square format tin impressions.

I would also suggest that both installations lean more traditional than transitional in style. They might be white and spacious, but the architectural details and windows lean traditional.

Square format patterns have difficulting being forced into a space with a variety of angles, and in your case, your dining room walls are not symmetrical which adds an additional level of difficulty to overcome.

Maybe an angled ceiling detail can be created for your area.

Again, I appreciate your comments and the time you've all spent considering this idea!

@IdaClaire - actually, the more I think about this, the less certain I am that it might work. All the reasons that you've all stated are totally valid.

@cleo07 - thanks so much for these photos. These are all much more achievable and appropriate for our space.

@cpartist - thank you! Yes, you're totally right. The dark paint is a great idea.

@BeverlyFLADeziner - thanks again for your perceptive and helpful comments. I really appreciate the time and effort you've spent putting together these ideas.

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To give a little background, I've been sitting on this tin ceiling idea since we moving into this house in the spring. We're about 3/4 of the way through a whole-house "facelift" reno (refinishing floors, retiling bathrooms, etc). We weren't planning on renovating the whole house, but I'm sure you Houzzers all know how addictive this process can be. After a rocky start, we are really having fun with the renos, and we're happy with what we've accomplished without an interior designer. We are nearly finished with the design, having left some of the dilemmas to the end.

However, I have **tremendous** respect for good interior designers. I cannot stress that enough.

My plan at this point is to get some Anaglypta wallpaper and stick it up, just to satisfy our curiosity about the tin ceiling look. My husband still insists the tin ceiling will be fine, and that the contractor will work it out. I really am ready to move on to another design option, though.

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@Molli Young Design Consultant - thank you!

@MS Colours Inc- YES!! Thank you SO MUCH!! I showed this photo to my husband, and we both love it. Others had suggested high gloss here, but as I wasn't that familiar with it, I couldn't really envision it in our space. This photo really "brings it home," so to speak. I wish you were in our area - we would have you do this for us. I really appreciate you taking the time to comment here.

We will try to post some before-and-after photos once our ceiling is complete.