Low ceilings with a height of 2.4-2.5 m is a characteristic feature of typical panel houses, with which you have to be considered, planning the repair and design of the kitchen. In this material you will find 15 simple techniques that will help you visually increase the height of the kitchen, several tips on what you should not do, as well as a selection of 30 photos of real low kitchens.
15 tricks design
- White Walls + White Ceiling
In general, it is not necessary to ceiling and walls must be white, the main thing is that they are one tone. This technique will wipe the border between the surfaces, and as a result, the kitchen will seem higher.
- High kitchen with white facades in the upper cabinets
The headset to the ceiling height can be completely white or only partially, namely in its upper part. So the facades of mounted cabinets are merged with the ceiling and will not "cut" the walls horizontally. If the headsets are low, then the facades for the upper cabinets should be chosen in the tone of the walls.
- Ricule or Filong Kitchen Facades
Our goal is to bring in the interior as much vertical lines as possible. If you create a kitchen design from scratch, we recommend choosing a headset with scribes, and it is better to rack facades like on this photo.
- Wallpaper / Curtains Vertical Striped
Wallpapers in a vertical strip create the desired optical illusion, visually stretching the walls of the upstream. Together the striped wallpaper can be wallpapers on one accent wall or on all four at once. By the way, the canvas with such a print is much easier to poison, and the seams between them practically do not do.
- True, there are striped wallpaper and disadvantages - they visually narrow the space, and therefore for narrow and elongated kitchens are contraindicated.
- Striped wallpapers in the interior of the classic kitchen are especially good, such as in the photo below (leaf).
- Wallpaper with vertical pattern
Not only striped wallpaper, but any wallpaper with vertical lines will work on an increase in the height of the kitchen. Images of trees stretching up plants or, let's say, built vertical repeating elements if they do not increase, then definitely do not lower the already low ceilings.
- Wallpaper in Rhombik
Wallpaper in Rhombick is also able to deceive our vision so that the kitchen will seem higher. At the same time, the space is squeezed, unlike striped wallpaper, they will not.
- White wooden lining
Facing the walls by white lining is popular in Scandinavian countries, where in typical houses the ceilings are often low. Take into service and you this technique, because the white color and vertical lines of the lining will work doubly effectively.
- White lining will fit into the kitchen interior in Country style, Shebbi Chic, Provence and any other "rustic" style.
- By the way, the lining or wooden rails will be good and in the facing of the apron of the kitchen, especially if it is still not high as in this kitchen-dining room in the photo below.
- Duplex ceiling with backlit central niche
Suspended ceiling structures for low kitchens are contraindicated, but a two-level ceiling with a highlighted niche can create the illusion of a high ceiling.
For example, in this classical kitchen, a niche in the ceiling imitates a stained glass window, and its backlight replaces the chandelier.
"Window" here is made of plexiglas. Moldings framing it - from polyurethane. And the suspended ceiling itself is made of plasterboard.
- Approximately the same effect can be achieved by issuing a niche glossy stretch ceiling and melting the LED backlight around the perimeter. Niche can have any shape.
- Dark floor
Dark colors, for example, dark blue, black, graphite, etc. have a property to visually reduce objects and surfaces. So, the floor, decorated with dark tiles or dark wood, will be as if falling down and thereby increase the height of the kitchen.
- If the repair you have already done, then you can just sit on the floor of the dark carpet as on the bottom right of the photo. Of course, the coating should be shortwood.
- Lighting light up
One to two vesters and / or wall-mounted sheds, the light of which is directed up, will be enough to create the effect of a higher and "air" space. And all because reflected from the ceiling and walls, the light will be distributed more evenly and will not create harsh shadows.
- Ceiling mirror
It is not bad to raise the ceilings and will increase the space of large mirrors, especially in the facing of one or two walls of the kitchen. In the next photo-slider, you can see how the low kitchen-dining room has been transformed in the panel house due to two mirrors with floor height to the ceiling.
- Curtains in floor
Curtains should choose long, that is, relating to the floor or even lying on it as shown later in the photo. Suitable storm styles - assembled in uniform fold, panel (Japanese) or dense (kinic).
It is desirable that the fabric has a vertical pattern, that is, all the same stripes, rhombus, plant motifs, etc.
Whatever curtains you choose, the curtain eaves should be installed under the most ceiling. Perfect choice - Ceiling tire cornice.
- Point or ceiling lamps instead of suspended
Suspended chandeliers in the kitchen with low ceilings will practically touch the heads of its inhabitants, visually overload the interior, even more shadow and "omit" the ceiling itself. Point and ceiling lamps look although it is not so smart as chandeliers, but it takes less space and create more pleasant and uniform lighting.
- For stretch ceilings, you need to use embedded point lamps, and for conventional - overhead.
- Small plinths in the tone of the walls
Outdoor plinths worth choosing low, preferably in the wall tone or universal white.
- Wall-mounted decor with vertical orientation
Pictures, posters, panels or decorative plates can also contribute to an increase in the height of the kitchen. To do this, they need to hang out a little higher than the level of the eye, as shown in the photo below or in a row vertically. It is also desirable that the drawing of wall decorations contain vertical lines.
And a little about errors that are better not to do
Low ceiling kitchen design has some restrictions to know to prevent an error. Here are their small list:
- Suspended chandeliers, as already noted, grind space and will simply interfere. The only place where the chandelier does not hurt - above the dining table. The lamp here can hang at a distance of 60 cm from the tabletop.
- Decorative ceiling beams - they are driving the ceiling and attract too much attention to it.
- Unfortunately, stucco, especially with gilding, is good only on high ceilings, and it looks too much foreign on low and hard.
- The decoration of the ceiling with a tint of darker walls, most likely, slightly reduces its height, and the painting in a dark color will lower at all, will create a feeling that the ceiling presses.
- Installation of suspended ceiling systems. Standard whirlpool and painting is the optimal method of finishing a low ceiling. However, with a great desire, you can install a stretch ceiling, which, compared to other suspension systems, takes not so much height, namely 4-5 cm.
- The design of the walls with horizontal stripes, as well as the design of the window with the curtains with a horizontal print, although it will push the wall, but significantly reduce the kitchen ceiling.