I’m obsessed with colorful kitchens — I’m charmed by the idea of color-drenching a space and flooding the room (especially the ceilings!) with one shade. If I see a room with a painted ceiling, I ...

One of life's greatest missed opportunities is designing a room without considering the ceiling - breaking what designers call the "fifth" wall, either subtly or (gasp!) dramatically. At Apartment ...

Q: We had a kitchen addition put on our home about 10 years ago. Decisions were made that now have us slapping our foreheads. My wife wanted a smooth ceiling with no texture whatsoever, which is ...

Drew Scott warns that making this mistake can cause unsightly chips and other imperfections in your kitchen, ruining the look ...

A green painted ceiling with a lighting fixture in the kitchen - Eduard Andrica/Getty Images Maintaining painted ceilings in high-humidity areas can feel like fighting an uphill battle, especially ...

Designer Greg Natale has a fondness for ceilings. “I find they’re too often overlooked,” he says. “Just like walls, they shape a room’s proportions, light and personality. Treating them as the ‘fifth ...

An apartment in Seattle’s North Capitol Hill neighborhood has a “Love U” message written on the ceiling of a dining room—you just can’t see it. Interior designer and principal at Le Whit, Liza Curtiss ...

Warm off-white paint creates the illusion of a larger kitchen. Dusty green-gray colors reduce visual noise in small spaces. Light and mid shades of blue add a sense of airiness to small kitchens.