The beautiful bones of a cathedral height exposed beam ceiling deserve special treatment when it comes to lighting.
Exposed beam ceiling lighting.
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Track can be recessed into the bottom of a beam mounted to the side of one or hung at the same plane as beams.
One of the biggest home design trends in the past year has been the reign of the exposed ceiling beam.
In reality exposed beams in residential buildings were far less common than one might think.
You don t always notice them at first but then you realize they make the face or in this case the living room wood beams are beautiful in their natural knotted state or you can paint them for a bold dose of color.
The addition of pendant lights near or between the ceiling beams in your kitchen can create a warm or inviting space in an already near perfect kitchen.
It s like being born with perfect eyebrows.
Whether you call them cathedral ceilings vaulted ceilings or pitched ceilings exposed ceiling beams are a dramatic crowning feature to any home s interior and for good reason.
Of a slow simple and true to the earth time.
Exposed beam ceilings call up images of past ages.
Country and rustic styled kitchens tend to have open ceilings.
We found out exposed beam ceiling lighting can be done no matter what style you went for at your place so rustic modern or clean and contemporary we have some ideas you can put into practice.
Reclaimed wood on one focal wall in natural shades including the brown would advance lodge style especially with a bit of gray washing added to the beams here and there and gray brown paint on the ceiling between the beams.
The choice of carefully placed pendant lights or recessed lights can accentuate some of the features of your kitchen if they re placed in between your exposed ceiling beams.
After all one of the benefits of exposed beams is the dramatic look the beams present so giving time and effort to equally dramatic lighting makes sense.
As mentioned previously the flexibility of being able to move around a light fixture is great for retail offices restaurants galleries and other areas that could be altered in the future.
There are ceilings and then there are ceilings with exposed beams.
You do not have to go with hanging lighting fixtures necessarily.