Repair of the ceilings in the apartment is done before the rest of the repair, therefore, their correctly chosen design to some extent determines how the interior of each room will look in the end. The ceiling can unite the space of the apartment, focus on certain areas, visually increase the volume and correct the geometry of the premises. Or it can ruin the look so much that no design tricks can fix the situation. The most difficult thing is to make plasterboard ceilings in small and narrow rooms: such rooms require a special approach.
Plasterboard ceiling and space rectification
Despite the fact that nowadays more and more apartments in new buildings have fairly spacious rooms, most people still live in houses with Soviet-era layouts. In such apartments, in addition to a few small rooms and a modest kitchen, there is sure to be a room that will look like a pencil case.
Cardinal measures to redevelop an apartment cannot always be approved by the relevant authorities. Therefore, it is necessary to solve the issue of expanding the space through the implementation of structures that change the visual perception of the territory. Plasterboard ceilings, which have long been loved by city dwellers, can help visually expand the space and at the same time adjust the shape of the room.
The opinion that suspended ceilings take up space, lowering the already low ceilings, which prevailed during the installation of the first plasterboard structures, has long been outdated. Currently, there are many fixtures that allow you to lower the ceiling to a minimum distance. In addition, professional interior designers have developed finishes that make small rooms look larger, and they achieve this mainly through ceiling decoration.
How to adjust the space in a narrow room
By organizing the illumination of a two-level structure, you can make any room visually higher. This is the main thing to remember before deciding which plasterboard ceiling you will make in your room. And you do not need to install a large number of bright spotlights for this purpose, the soft light of LEDs or LED strips is ideal.
In addition, the following rules must be taken into account:
- If the room in which the ceiling is being installed has the shape of a pencil case, then when decorating it is better to use geometric shapes inscribed in a square.
- Plasterboard ceilings in a narrow room should not be redundant. The height in the room can also be leveled by a small cornice made of plasterboard, put along the perimeter of the room.
- Complex multi-tiered structures can be afforded by residents of apartments with high ceilings, and in typical apartments of the post-Soviet space it is better to limit yourself to two tiers.
The ceiling structure has proven itself well, in which the side walls between the first and second tiers are not visible. Diode strips are built into these places, which create the feeling of a floating ceiling. Such constructive solutions look great in any room, including the kitchen and hallway.
Ceiling decoration in a small room
In a small square-shaped room, ceilings with smooth or rounded embossed lines will look good. These do not have to be lines of the correct form, you can make any figures that your imagination tells you, and you can place them both in the corner of the room and in the center of it.
The bedroom is the only room in which designers recommend mounting the ceiling structure above the bed.
Also, it is not necessary to unnecessarily overload the multi-tiered ceilings of their GKL with additional finishing. This will not only not decorate the room, but also create an effect of congestion in a small room, from which it will seem even smaller.
It is possible during planning work to create a scaled ceiling layout, on which there will be everything that you want to see later in your room. Such a study will allow, firstly, to avoid errors and problems during further repair work, and secondly, it will make it possible to make an accurate calculation of the material necessary for the construction of the structure.
Important! When planning the construction of a bunk ceiling structure in a small room with low ceilings, you must immediately abandon recessed fixtures. This will make it possible to reduce the distance by which the structure will be lowered by a few centimeters. Lamps can be successfully replaced with LED strips.
The use of colors in drywall constructions
There are people who adhere to minimalism, who consider white to be the standard of beauty. If the ceiling in the room is single-tier, then the white color on this design will look very harmonious. Another thing is the installation of multi-tiered ceilings.
No need to be afraid to introduce bright colors into the room. Using them within reasonable limits will only give positive results.
- Blue, grey, green and even purple hues can help to visually push back the ceiling when used to decorate the perimeter of a room.
- All warm colors, on the contrary, will compress the space, bring it closer. For example, if you make the ceiling orange, it will visually get closer. The room, accordingly, will become even smaller.
- You can arrange one of the walls and the ceiling in the same color scheme, this will give the room warmth, bring the wall closer. This method is good to use for a narrow wall in a pencil case room.
- In children's rooms it is possible to use a wide range of colors, the game of contrasts looks great here. This is the only room where you can experiment as much as you like, connecting the impossible.
- In the sleeping area, it is better to use halftones, any colors, except for bright and saturated colors.
- The kitchen can also be designed in any colors. A light center and orange or green edges will look good enough when used in a two-story false ceiling.
If you are going to make a complex design project for a room, you must first see if the room is lost against the background of the ceiling. If possible, it is better to turn to professional designers to create such a design. It is possible that they will advise a simple single-tier ceiling with built-in lights of different power. When installing drywall structures, it must be remembered that with an illiterate approach, they can overload the space.
