Drywall Ceiling Design

The time of discreet monophonic ceilings has passed, the unique capabilities of a material such as drywall allow you to turn the ceiling space into a real work of art. Due to the ease of installation, low cost and the ability of drywall to take a variety of forms, suspended ceilings have gained incredible, but well-deserved popularity. Choosing gypsum board as a ceiling coating, you get the opportunity to realize any creative ideas on the vast space of the ceiling surface. If you have not yet decided how to decorate the plasterboard ceiling in the corridor, living room or bedroom, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the various finishes and win-win design ideas.

A few words about the advantages and disadvantages of drywall ceilings

Outboard drywall constructions have their pros and cons. The prevalence of this type of finish indicates that the advantages significantly prevail over the disadvantages.

Advantages of GKL ceiling structures:

• ecological purity and absolute non-toxicity of the material, which makes it possible to use it in any residential premises;
• the ability to level the surface with any elevation;
• good moisture and fire resistance;
• convenience of hiding communications and ventilation systems;
• ease of installation and the ability to replace individual damaged modules without removing the entire structure;
• practicality - drywall can be repeatedly painted, as well as wallpapering;
• compatibility with any existing types of lamps;
• compliance and the possibility of adopting any form, allowing to realize any design ideas.

Some disadvantages of plasterboard ceilings:

• insecurity from leaks from above;
• some decrease in the height of the room.

Plasterboard suspended ceilings can have one or more levels. Each of these options has its own design and design capabilities.

Plasterboard single level ceiling

Despite the relative simplicity of the design, a single-level drywall design deserves attention. Such a ceiling is an ideal solution for a living room or bedroom in an apartment with low ceilings. The minimum height to which the ceiling surface falls is 3 cm, which make up the thickness of the supporting profile. For such a ceiling, an overhead or pendant chandelier is suitable.

If you want to use point sources of light, the surface level drops to a high height of approximately 10 cm and is determined by the height of the built-in lamp housing.

The design capabilities of a single-level design are more limited compared to multi-level ones, but there are still options.

• A combination of several colors. It can be used for visual zoning of a room, for example, dividing the living room to the recreation area and dining room.
• Drawing on the ceiling. It can be beautiful patterns, an ornament or another image - the main thing is that the selected decor is combined with the interior of the room. Drawing, passing on the walls, will help to visually expand the room.

• Plates and skirting boards with plaster moldings. The LED illumination built into the baseboard will make the design of a single-level design in the hall comparable in effectiveness with its multi-level counterparts.

• Wall murals with the image of a voluminous cloudy or starry sky will make the living room or bedroom visually higher.

Layered Design

Multilevel plasterboard ceilings are especially popular, since it is this design option that allows you to use made of GKL figures. It can be any geometric shapes, twisting lines, stars, flowers, spirals, step transitions.

Interesting: despite the actual decrease in the height of the ceiling, competently designed multi-level structures allow you to visually increase the volume of the room.

Beautiful multi-level designs look very stylish and modern, in addition, they do an excellent job of masking wiring and any communications. Such ceilings are perfectly combined with spotlights and LED backlight located at the junction of different levels.

Living Room Ideas

The living room is the main premise in the apartment, therefore special attention is paid to its decoration. We offer you some interesting ideas for decorating a multi-level ceiling in this room.

• The combination of materials. A combination of drywall and stretch web.

• Inclined ceiling surface - an original solution for fans of a non-standard approach.
• A piece of the night sky or lake surface. A higher level of the surface is made out using a glossy stretch fabric, LED projectors with fiber optics are used to create stars.

• The "soaring ceiling" is obtained by properly selected lighting, consisting of a hidden LED strip or spotlights pointing upwards.

• Zoning with the help of different levels, limited by smooth lines - an effective method of dividing the living room into several zones.

Decoration of the ceiling in the hallway

For the ceiling in the hallway from drywall, it is especially important to have a sufficient number of lamps, since very little natural light usually penetrates here. In addition, a suspended ceiling in the hallway with spot light allows you to visually expand the cramped space.

A small or narrow hallway is well complemented by a multi-level structure of strict form. This can be a rectangle, circle or square, located in the center and complemented by hidden illumination along the contour. In the narrow long corridor the ceiling surface can be decorated with several squares or wavy lines - this allows you to visually expand the space.

Suspension and tension surfaces can be combined by surrounding a glossy tension web with a drywall cornice. The rotary lights integrated in the cornice will allow you to achieve the effect of a "solar" ceiling.

There is an interesting design technique that allows you to create the effect of increasing the space in a separate room, for example, in a hall. If you make the ceiling of drywall in the corridor lower than in the living room, it will seem more spacious.