8 Reasons to Tile Your Ceiling
To highlight architectural details or finally finish off the basement, you might try adding tile to your ceiling
If you’re looking to redecorate a room, or even simply to replace your old popcorn ceiling with something fabulous, consider a ceiling treatment that puts an ordinary material like tile in the place you’d least expect it. Here are eight reasons to consider tile for your ceiling design.
1. Distract from a room’s size. A curved ceiling just cries out for a special treatment, doesn’t it? In this narrow kitchen, an ocean of glass mosaic tiles graces the ceiling and back wall, distracting from the galley’s small size. The continuity of the material visually expands the room.
2. Define an area in an open floor plan. Open floor plans are popular today, but if you still want to delineate specific areas, a tiled ceiling can be a great solution. The ceiling in this Texas dining area is covered in a travertine tile that mimics the look of brick. While no walls separate the dining area from the living space, the tiled ceiling gives the area its own distinct feel.
3. Finish off the basement. Basement ceilings are rarely beautiful on their own. To make a finished basement feel truly finished, a ceiling treatment to cover up unsightly ductwork is often in order. Here, Montreal designer Melyssa Robert ordered a dropped ceiling made with vinyl ceiling panels. While not tiles in the ceramic sense, these have the added virtue of affordability and ultimately serve the same function by adding visual interest to an often-neglected area.
4. Highlight architectural details. In Mexican architecture, it’s not uncommon to cover nearly every surface with beautiful handmade tiles unique to the region, but what’s especially striking about the way it’s done here is how the tiling actually enhances the architecture by drawing attention to the room’s contours. You don’t need to live in Mexico, or even in a hacienda-style home, to appreciate this look. Any style home with contoured ceilings can benefit from tile.
5. Incorporate period details. This Chicago bathroom possesses all the hallmarks of the Victorian house in which it sits: stained-glass windows, claw-foot tub and a tin tiled ceiling. In a space such as this with tall ceilings, tile draws the eye up, highlighting the room’s grand scale.
6. Make minimalism anything but boring. Rather than mirroring your rug’s color or pattern, you might opt to scale way back on your design and let the ceiling and rug speak for themselves as the only two patterns in a minimalist room. Wide swaths of color or small-scale pattern can often be all the interest you need to pull a space together.
7. Save your ceiling from smoke stains. Though a vent hood above the range will collect most of the smoke created during cooking, the ceiling around the range can begin to darken over time. Instead of having to repaint it, try surrounding the hood with tile, which can be wiped clean regularly with a wet cloth.
8. Express yourself. The black mirrored hexagon tile covering the ceiling in this chic Chicago home makes a bold artistic statement. By covering only parts of the ceiling in tile and laying it out in a creative manner, the ceiling becomes a true work of art.
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