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15 Coffered-Ceiling Ideas

15 Coffered Ceiling Design Ideas and Tips

Coffered ceilings add a certain je ne sais quoi to any room. Whether you're looking for a traditional or contemporary design, we've put together a collection featuring some of our best reader-submitted projects and articles highlighting coffered ceilings in living rooms, kitchens, and basements. You'll also find tips and techniques on building box beams, installing a coffered ceiling, and leveling old ceilings.

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Coffered Ceiling for All
Coffered ceiling with massive, MDF box beams.
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Custom-Stained, Poplar Coffered Ceiling
Custom-Stained, Poplar Coffered Ceiling
This reader-submitted project features a custom-stained and poplar coffered ceiling. Read more...

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Classic Coffered Ceiling
Classic Coffered Ceiling
This dining room gets an elegant face-lift with a coffered ceiling. Read more...

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Family Room Gets a Coffered Ceiling
Family Room Gets a Coffered Ceiling
For this custom coffered ceiling, the individual coffers were dry-assembled in a shop, tested for fit, delivered and installed in the home. Read more...

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Coffered Ceiling in Walkout
Coffered Ceiling in Walkout
With all of the beams, ducts, and pipes that need to be hidden, coffered ceilings can be a practical detail for a basement remodels. Read more...

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Arts and Crafts Oak Kitchen with a Coffered Ceiling
Arts and Crafts Oak Kitchen with a Coffered Ceiling
A totally gutted and remodeled kitchen gets the coffered ceiling treatment. Read more...

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Coffered Ceiling with a View
Coffered Ceiling with a View
These beams suspended at ceiling height help to carve out a cozy space, while the skylight-filled, vaulted ceiling above makes the room bright and airy. Read more...

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Framing for a Barrel-Vaulted Coffered Ceiling
Framing for a Barrel-Vaulted Coffered Ceiling
This reader-submitted project is still in the works. We can’t wait to see what it looks like when it’s done.
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Transformed Basement with Coffered Ceiling
Transformed Basement with Coffered Ceiling
This contemporary basement remodel includes a unique, modern take on box-beam ceilings. Read more...

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Cotemporary Kitchen with Coffered Ceiling
Cotemporary Kitchen with Coffered Ceiling
Here’s another unconventional take on a coffered ceiling done simply by creating concentric recesses in this kitchen’s drywall ceiling. Read more...

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Tips for a Coffered Ceiling
Tips for a Coffered Ceiling
In this article, senior editor Charles Bickfod shares 5 tips for installing a coffered ceiling. Read more...

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Perfecting Coffered Ceilings
Perfecting Coffered Ceilings
Learn how to build and fasten faux beams with U-shaped ceiling supports instead of the traditional elaborate grid of framing. Read more...

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How to Level an Old Ceiling
How to Level an Old Ceiling
More often than not, old ceilings feature studs and joists that have sagged, twisted, and bowed making it to prepare it for coffered ceiling installations. This article details a simple technique for solving the problem with steel studs.

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A Coffered Ceiling Begins With Box Beams
A Coffered Ceiling Begins With Box Beams
In this online-member article, builder Joseph Lanza shares some advice and tips on how to build box beams that can be used as the basis for coffered ceilings. Read more...

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Add Character with a Box-Beam Ceiling
Add Character with a Box-Beam Ceiling
This online-member article shows you how to build a simple box beam using quirk joints between the sides and bottom with. Read more...

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