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Lake Maggiore: tips to decorate your home ceilings

When it comes to home furnishing, the ceiling plays a role that is often little considered but has great potential. From high ceilings to low ceilings, decoration, ceiling lighting: here you can find everything you need to know about this topic


When you say "home furnishing", people tend to automatically think of elements that are found on the floor or on the walls. Whether it is a kitchen or a sofa, a bed or a rug, bathroom furniture or a picture, it is always home furnishings that are at eye level.


But there is one space in the home that can be of paramount importance if it is well conceived and furnished. We are talking about the ceiling. There are many elements to be considered when it comes to the ceiling: there are high and low ceilings, decorated ceilings and those that need to be covered. Every home has its own ceiling and this can have an influence not only on the lighting but also on other details. 


How to decorate the low ceilings


In those rooms where the walls are not excessively high, it is better to use led spotlights on the ceilings. You may want to use vanishing spotlights, in order to enhance the vertical element and create a feeling of greater spatiality. As for the painting, we suggest you use soft colours, better if they crate a nice contrast with darker walls. This little escamotage will give the impression of higher ceilings. 


How to decorate with a suspended ceiling 


You can include the suspended ceiling among the furnishings. Perfect to enhance the space of wide areas and rooms and to characterize specific areas in the house, the suspended ceiling is also consdiered an ideal element to create an elegant lighting. It can be shaped to host impressive  vanishing led-spotlights.


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How to choose the eprfect chandelier


Modern ceiling chandeliers are the most popular sources of lighting, and the choice available is virtually endless. Choosing a chandelier is a matter of taste, but setting up the lighting system in a room is a job for professionals, who know how to interpret the context and think of the best solution. For example, using LED ceiling lamps or modern ceiling chandeliers, or even LED ceiling spotlights, is a choice that must be made consciously. 


Ceiling decorations


In high-end properties such as those for sale on Lake Maggiore, ceilings can become the protagonists of truly suggestive settings. We are not just talking about frescoed vaults, since nowadays there are many possibilities for customisation with easily applied mouldings and stuccoes. Not to mention more modern creative decorations that certainly add value to the personality of the home. In this case, decorative paintings with original motifs and colours are of great impact.

A wide choice of materials


Home furnishings certainly also include the materials with which the ceiling can be furnished. From the more traditional wood, also moulded or coffered, we move on to more innovative materials such as glass, stoneware, shaped metal sheets. Even wallpaper, traditionally used on walls, has great potential when used on the ceiling. All you have to do is choose the right motif. A landscape or material effect in style with the rest of the house may prove to be the right choice. Each material, of course, has its own peculiar properties in terms of brightness, the idea of space, and visual impact, which must be assessed ad hoc in each space.

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