Illuminated ceiling gives the design of the room unique and interesting. Properly selected lighting allows you to create a favorable microclimate in the room and advantageously emphasize the features of the interior.
Recommendations for choosing the backlight
A few practical tips on lighting design apartment interior:
- When using niches, double or triple ceiling models in a room with low ceilings, you should correctly work out the lighting so that the structures do not look too heavy and heavy.
- For high-quality backlight, it is desirable to choose a white LED strip.
- As a decorative lighting box or a niche with a cornice for curtains, suitable RGB LED strip.
- The lighting should not only beat and decorate the ceiling space, but also mark and correctly illuminate all functional areas in the room.
Types of ceilings
There are several types of ceiling designs.
Suspended ceiling
Suspended models are divided into the following types.
From plasterboard
The durable ceiling, combined with various lamps, allows you to create unusual light accents in the room. See more plasterboard ceiling lighting ideas.
From wooden slats
Recessed lighting located between the slats gives this design a unique and interesting appearance.
Pictured is a slatted ceiling design with lighting in the living room.
Glass
Glass models visually expand the room and give it lightness, in combination with various outdoor or indoor lighting, they look very nice and give quite bright lighting.
Tensioner
Various textured stretch canvas allows you to fill the room with a soft glow. Such products look quite impressive and bring to the atmosphere of a romantic mood.
Stained glass
Original lighting located under the stained glass gives the ceiling space a depth and elegance, and allows you to select either the entire ceiling or certain parts of it.
The photo shows a stained glass ceiling design with lighting.
Acrylic
Plexiglas creates original lighting effects and gently diffuses the light. Acrylic or polycarbonate backlit panels form a beautiful and luxurious interior.
Mirror
It gives the room additional space and space, and in combination with the lighting the mirrors look especially monumental and majestic.
Caisson
In this design, lighting devices can be placed both in each cell and in other parts of the caisson model.
Backlight options
The choice of lighting for the ceiling is an important part of the design.
Around the perimeter
These types of perimeter lighting are very often used for various design solutions:
- Soaring ceiling. Due to the unusual effect, flying structures expand the boundaries of space and are therefore excellent for low ceilings.
- Contour lighting. Located on the edges of the ceiling model, it allows you to outline certain shapes and shapes and create an interesting play of light and color.
In the photo is a kitchen-living room with a single-level floating ceiling in white.
Internal
Solid lighting adds volume to the room, enhances color and gives a feeling of large space.
Lines and stripes
Linear lamps provide a uniform luminous flux and bring a charming cosiness to the atmosphere. Light bulbs with a variety of power levels allow you to concentrate on certain parts of the ceiling plane.
In the photo is a kitchen-living room with lighting in the form of light lines on the ceiling.
Translucent
With the help of such a translucent ceiling that glows from the inside, a unique and mysterious atmosphere is created.
Geometric shapes (circles, squares)
Contour lighting gives a variety of geometric shapes additional visual volume and makes them quite stylish design element.
Dot
Perfectly emphasizes and highlights the functional areas of the room. Spotlights can be used both in single-level and multi-level or combined designs.
Hidden
It is a modern and surprisingly stylish solution that visually lifts the ceiling and gives it a hint of mystery and fabulousness.
Pictured ceiling with hidden lighting in the interior of the dining room.
Light sources on the ceiling
Allow even more to reflect the individuality of the ceiling structure.
LED strip (LED)
Differs in special flexibility and compactness, can be mounted practically on any surface. Ice-lighting visually changes the geometry of the room, raises the ceiling plane and makes the interior much more attractive and original.
LED lamps
Emit a clear, not blurred light, as close as possible to the natural and fill the room with high-quality lighting that is pleasant to the eye.
In the photo is a kitchen with a ceiling decorated with diode ceiling lights.
Light bulbs
They may have different positions on the ceiling, for example, along a contour, along a wall, in a spiral or in several rows.
Spots
Provide an opportunity to regulate a light stream and to direct it to the necessary point. The spots perfectly highlight certain areas of the room and create bright lighting in them.
Roralite
Flexible ribbon light cord Duralight, allows you to create an unusual light for any design and give it a memorable appearance.
In the photo there is a pink backlighting in the interior of a small living room.
Spotlights
Spread the light flux in the form of directional rays. Spotlights are notable for convenience, compactness and special aesthetic beauty.
Examples of ceiling structures
The main three varieties.
Single level
The unique combination of the simplicity of a single-level design with the beauty of various lighting fixtures creates a concise and very harmonious design.
Duplex
The LED tape or lamps especially effectively emphasize a multipurpose two-tier design.
Multilevel
The three-level ceiling allows you to implement the most extraordinary design solutions and create indoors truly impressive and individual projects.
Backlight colors
A certain color or shade forms the mood of the whole interior.
Neon
Flexible neon has a soft blue or blue glow. Such a cold shade looks great, both in more spacious and in small rooms.
Pink
It creates a magical atmosphere and incredibly beautifully envelops separate fragments of the room with magical light.
On the photo is a bedroom and a single-level gray ceiling with pink backlighting.
Color (RGB)
Provides several multi-colored options that allow you to adjust the ceiling model for any mood.
Yellow
It is a rather positive and bright interior solution.
Purple
Nontrivial option that is suitable for those who love non-standard and extravagant design.
White
The simplest, but at the same time very stylish and spectacular view of the backlight, creating a uniform white light output.
Ceiling color
Lighting is perfectly combined with the ceiling plane of any color.
- The black.
- White.
- Beige.
- Red.
In the photo there is a living room with a beige, single-lighted ceiling with lighting.
Ceiling design
The most interesting ceiling design.
Window to the sky
A false window is an ideal solution for many interiors. The presence of illumination will enhance the effect of the bottomlessness and depth of this design.
Night sky
The starry sky fascinates with flickering lights and its magical appeal, resembles a galaxy and open space. This decor will not leave anyone indifferent.
Transparent ceiling
Suitable for small spaces with limited natural light. It provides a sufficient amount of light and thus becomes the highlight of the interior, which creates a cozy and pleasant atmosphere.
With beam
Spot, spotlights or diode tape can highlight the decorative beauty of the beam and create an emphasis on functional areas.
Unusual ideas
Different types of lighting, combined with unusual ceiling models, are an original stylistic device.
One side
Side lighting provides the ability to illuminate the part of the room that is used most often.
Sky with clouds
Perfectly transforms space, brings lightness, airiness into it and gives a feeling of freedom.
With stucco
Lighting favorably distinguishes the bends and patterns of stucco ornament or pattern.
With pattern and backlight
Such a combination creates various light illusions in space and undoubtedly becomes a bright and original touch.
Forms of ceilings
The most common ceiling forms.
Round
Allows you to diversify the interior and make its design truly special. It can be highlighted with any original shade that matches the style of the room.
With niche
Such models with a box provide clear lighting boundaries and are quite a popular interior solution.
Rectangular and square
Hidden lights will make rectangular or square shapes more visible and will not allow them to merge with the general background.
Figured
Ceiling waves looks quite charming, in combination with various lighting effects, it opens up opportunities for various experiments.
Photo of the ceiling lighting in the interior rooms
Several photos of examples of lighting solutions.
Living room
Dot, directional, hidden or any other lighting of the ceiling structure should first of all be in harmony with the overall design of the living room. A certain light focus allows mysteriously shrouding the room with a soft light.
Bedroom
Illumination or a variety of lamps on the ceiling, will create an unobtrusive and relaxing glow, which is particularly consistent with the relaxing atmosphere in the bedroom.
Kitchen
Spotlights or LED strip with a certain power or directionality of the luminous flux will allow you to select the working kitchen area and other elements on which you need to focus.
Children's
There should not be too bright and harsh light. Ceiling products with a variety of lighting help to create high-quality, soft, diffused lighting with smooth transitions in the nursery.
Corridor and hallway
Spotlights in the corridor provide a sufficient and measured amount of light. With proper location on the ceiling plane, they emphasize the interior of the hallway, highlight its advantages and correctly hide the shortcomings.
Bathroom
Ceiling lighting will be in harmony with tile, mirrors, bathroom fixtures and other decorative elements of the bathroom.
Restroom
For such a small room, single-level models with a minimum number of lighting fixtures would be appropriate. They must create a directional luminous flux and not overload the space.
Attic
Illumination will be an excellent additional light source in the attic, it will increase the attic space and give the sloping ceiling lightness, as well as deprive it of the pressing effect.
Balcony
LED bulbs or spots in combination with simple ceiling forms, will allow you to organize high-quality lighting of the entire balcony space.
Design examples in various styles
Properly selected light design of the ceiling, is able to harmoniously fit into any style direction.
- Classic. This style implies ceiling models with a soft, but quite bright light. They help to emphasize the impeccable, solemn and majestic atmosphere of a classic interior.
- Modern. Laconic products in bright colors in combination with modern, simple and stylish lamps are an integral part of modern style.
- Minimalism. Ceiling lighting design in cool colors will organically complement the minimalist style, emphasize its concept and will not attract too much attention.
- High tech. Geometric shapes of ceilings with simple models of lamps will give a high-tech style of thoughtfulness and perfection.
- Loft. An LED strip or spot with an industrial design, on the ceiling plane, will bring a discreet lightness and spatial depth into the discreet loft.
In the photo, the ceiling is a geometric shape with lighting in the bedroom in the high-tech style.
Photo gallery
Illuminated ceiling is a fairly common design in modern design. It allows you to unusually highlight certain areas of the room or create a full-fledged lighting in it.
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