15 Coffered-Ceiling Ideas
Design ideas, tips, and techniques for a unique coffered ceiling in kitchens, living rooms, basements and more.
Coffered ceilings add a beautiful element 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.
For more information, check out these links:
- Video Series: The Craft of Coffered Ceilings
- Tips for a Coffered Ceiling
- A New Approach to Coffered Ceilings
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Coffered ceiling with massive, MDF box beams.
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Custom-Stained, Poplar Coffered Ceiling
This reader-submitted project features a custom-stained and poplar coffered ceiling.
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This dining room gets an elegant face-lift with a coffered ceiling.
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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.
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With all of the beams, ducts, and pipes that need to be hidden, coffered ceilings can be a practical detail for a basement remodels.
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Arts and Crafts Oak Kitchen with a Coffered Ceiling
A totally gutted and remodeled kitchen gets the coffered ceiling treatment.
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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.
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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
This contemporary basement remodel includes a unique, modern take on box-beam ceilings.
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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.
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In this article, senior editor Charles Bickfod shares 5 tips for installing a coffered ceiling.
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Learn how to build and fasten faux beams with U-shaped ceiling supports instead of the traditional elaborate grid of framing.
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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
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.
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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.
