5 Ceiling Designs For Your Living Room Walls in 2023

Make way for new ceiling shapes and textures

If you have light coloured walls and a cool room palette, then we suggest false ceilings with new shapes and texture accents to add character to your living room. Imagine a pristine white living room with arches on the ceiling and wooden accents to add warmth to it - it will look gorgeous. Different ceiling shapes and textures act as a creative extension to your cool colour palette on your living room walls. You can even experiment with brick or grunge textures on your ceiling with a background splash of greige, cream or pale yellow to bring in the cool colours. However, here are a few things to keep in mind before choosing ceiling shapes and textures:

• Consider ceiling and room height: Pop out ceilings or arched ceilings will only look good in tall rooms
• Analyse colour scheme: It’s not only about ambient lighting but also about natural light and how your ceiling looks in it

Introduce exposed beams

If a small living room has light colours, then exposed wooden beams can be the perfect ceiling design to create an illusion of a wider and taller space. Exposed beams are a new trend where modern houses reveal the bones of the house instead of concealing it. Homeowners can play with the kind of beams to use and also experiment with different colours that compliment their living room walls as well. Here are a few ideas:

• Boxed beams and warm colours: Warm colours like brown, rustic red or navy blue placed within boxed, wooden beams look perfect as a ceiling design with large expanses.
• Bohemian or Scandinavian beams: An all-white ceiling design can have accents like these with painted beams.
• Decorate the ceiling with geometric beams: You need not stick to a formation for beams. You can also align them geometrically to achieve abstract accents on bare ceiling designs.

Consider a monochromatic room effect

Monochrome does not necessarily mean black and white. It means a single colour tone across the room. Now, homeowners can either have walls and ceilings imitate the same colour, or they can have different shades of the same colour family to appear uniform. Ceiling designs with cooler tones of the same shade to compliment the darker living room walls work well, as they make the space look larger. Similarly, ceiling designs and living room walls can take an ombre effect where the gradient tone runs from the ceiling as dark to the floor as lighter shades of the chosen colour. Monochrome ceiling designs look great with contrasting light fixtures as it adds an accent to the rest of the uniformity.

• Characteristics of monochromatic living room: Uniform, serene, sophisticated

Welcome ceiling accent walls

You can either have ceiling designs with wall accents or have ceiling wall accents as ceiling designs. Let us explain the difference. Ceiling designs with wall accents include bare ceiling walls with light fixtures, a single beam, a single chandelier to act as an accent that accentuates the space. Whereas ceiling wall accents are ceiling designs that stand out and act as accents to your living room walls. Both these ceiling designs are great for modern homes with contemporary design. You can have a wall that contrasts with the rest of the room with a beautiful chandelier or you can have a ceiling with a pop fixture and track lighting that blends in with the space.

Futuristic minimal ceilings with hidden light fixtures

Imagine a modern home in the future or in space. Many designers are adapting to futuristic lighting and ceiling design styles for homes. The light fixtures are ingrained in the nooks and crannies of the ceiling design making it appear state-of-the-art and elegant. Ceiling designs become fluid and curvy false ceilings are given importance with the right light fixtures. It is a growing market and has gained prominence as a trend.

Although ceiling designs for living room walls are meant to make the room design appear cohesive, they can sometimes also stand out and be the missing element of the design. You can have a look at 9 Beautiful Trending Ceiling Designs of 2023 here to catch up to speed with the latest trends in the home design landscape.