So we made some major moves in our home the past few weeks. After falling in love with opening up our ceiling in our kitchen… we finally pulled that design choice into the rest of the house, yes we tore out our ceilings throughout the entire main floor.
During this process we have had so many people message, asking why we decided to take them out, because they are debating doing it too. Well, I will say, like most design, it is not for everyone. If you are on the fence of going down this path, we are going to cover a few reasons why we love this look!
The Power of the Eye
When everything is said and done, you are only gaining a few inches up from where the drywall was, but with the power of the eye, the room feels like it gains feet. Once painted, the floor joists create leading lines that can feel like they don’t end. This naturally allows your eye to run up-forever brightening up the room-making it feel much taller and bigger than it truly is.
Being Open for Change
This is organically by design and not part of the plan. We haven’t made any remodels to our bathrooms upstairs, still flipping and flopping with design. Nonetheless, we can see all of the plumbing from below, making our remodel very accessible and easier to see what we are able to do. We have already added/moved lighting electrical boxes too. We did get asked if the sound has changed… can we hear more upstairs or downstairs? No, in fact Cope’s bedroom is right above the sunroom where we spend most of our time and movie night. And being in his room, you cannot hear anything from his room.
Customizable and Rustic
You can add elements to get a more curated rustic look with historic features. Some of the things that come to mind are adding floor joist cross bracing or planking/tongue and grooving the flat areas between the joists. It is no secret that I love deconstructed furniture so this look brings in the style a little bit more.
Reversible
At the end of all this, you can undo and put ceiling material (drywall, tin, tongue and groove) back up.
We started painting the old office/dinning room space… and instantly the space grew. We highly recommend spraying over brush and roller… the many faces and little corners and crevices makes rolling and brushing a bit of a challenge. Overall we are so excited to get into these spaces and get some fun new inspirational looks for the upcoming fall and holiday seasons. Thank you so much for stopping by the blog today and every other day. And I hope our home can inspire your next design look. XxLizMarie
I was so interested in what you would do about the exposed wiring. Relocating them would have been a nightmare ?
Can’t wait to see what you do with these rooms! P.S love the new chandelier above your table.
At first , to be honest here; I was worried about the look. The cables and exposed pipes , stressed me out. Then when I saw all of it painted, it all made sense and I really like it. ♥️
These are super helpful reasons Liz!! Thank you for sharing this! It looks amazing!!! ❤️❤️
Are you going to cover the sewer pipes? Love the look.
We did the same thing in our living room and nursery! We live in a farmhouse from the early 1900’s and have the low 7’ ceilings upstairs. What is worse, the old home owner textured the crap out of the drywall- pop corn cowlings x 500 (literally)… I have advocated for us to just paint the exposed beams in the living room, as my husband spent so much time and effort wrapping every beam in the nursery above. This really helped him see my vision, although he still wants to clean up the wiring and hide them behind molding.
Will you be leaving the ceilings as is? Or will you be tidying up the plumbing and exposed wires? I can’t remember if you can see the wires in your kitchen? ?
Really love the look!! Thanks so much for sharing!!!❤
There are parts I like but I struggle with seeing all the business of the pipes and all the wires. What are options to address those?
LOVE IT!!!
Did you post the white paint color?
Maybe I missed it?!?
Thanks for sharing!?
Sorry not a fan at all. I can’t see why you would have wanted to do this. Your home was beautiful and I understand the constant redecorating for your blog, but it just seems like you are never ever going to come to a finished product of a home. It’s exhausting to watch and I can’t imagine how your husband has that much patience to continuously move, build rebuild, decorate redecorate, paint, hang rehang reinstall take down, it’s draining to watch.
This is so very fantastic, i love this look and am so excited to see all you do. I am an older person and i so enjoy all the aged pieces and your home your so lovingly bringing life to. Thank you so much and have a great weekend.
No need to watch if you don’t enjoy it.
Can you please share what white paint color you use? Thank you !!