Guess the cost?

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I have an angled vaulted ceiling just like this one and am thinking about having coffered moulding added to it (like shown in this photo, but without the beadboard). The room is 14'x16'. Any guesses what a project like this would cost?

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HALLETT & Co.

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15K? Is there a prize for closest without going over? (My guess includes paint )

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Patricia Colwell Consulting
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NO.
littlebug Zone 5 Missouri
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That sounds like a pretty small room for such a ceiling.
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maddie260
last year
I think pretty traditional and 'elegant' (for lack of a better word?) furniture and a large room would be required to carry off such a ceiling.
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JAN MOYER
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In a word? NO. IN THREE?? No, no , no.

That pic is proof that not every image you find on the internet deserves a second glance. (Apologies inserted here)

Coffers belong on a flat high ceiling; they should not completely overwhelm the room beneath. Proportion matters! Add that is a rather casually elegant treatment suggesting luxury......in a deserving home for that treatment.

Tongue and groove alone perhaps, PROVIDED you show your room. The room in your home, not that of another. Be open to better ideas for your space as well.
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Beth H. :
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this^^

so many better ways to spend your money if you have a ceiling like that

can you do some faux beams?

or nothing
decorpatti
last year
Your inspiration picture is so over the top: vaulted, coffered, bead-boarded! Yikes! And with plaid family room furniture...they just don't work. So, please don't do it!. And such a 'heavy' ceiling for not a huge room (my master bedroom is 16 x 16 with plain vaulted ceiling; I can't imagine all that going on in a room that size. As for cost, I have no idea, but here in the LA area, it would be prohibitive, I'm sure...maybe 20K, if not much more.
palimpsest
last year
If that is what you wanted, done properly and neatly I don't think it would come under maybe 20-25K here, East Coast Metro, and there is a fair amount of this sort of thing done.

The extra thing that strikes me about this particular installation is that it stops dead and does not continue down the parts of the ceiling that come down to the bookshelves, so not only is it heavy-looking, it's heavy-looking and sort of floating unsupported, so it doesn't look structural, and anything like this should look structural.

I think that you could do something that was both more realistic looking and cheaper to execute.
btydrvn
last year
In a small room the most you could expect to carry off would be …beams only…if the ceilings are not extra high even a contrasting color on the beam may be overkill…but like in everything else …a picture of your apace is worth a thousand words
btydrvn
last year
Another aspect is that this treatment is very confining decor-wise
arcy_gw
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No estimate posted yet????? Candice seems to have no problem putting ceilings like this in about anywhere!!
jewelisfabulous
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last year
So what you're all saying is that this is a great idea! :)
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last year
Really that is wht you heard ???? NONO NO
RedRyder
last year
Some of get your sarcasm @jewelisfabulous. 😂

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