5 drool-worthy ceiling design ideas to inspire your next home renovation

Lal Kothi, Peter and Cecile D’Ascoli’s verdant Delhi farmhouse, is a layered, maximalist homage to Indian textiles. In this verdant corner, tucked away from the city’s hustle, the couple has quietly established themselves as creative tastemakers.

The salon is a feast for the eyes with furniture upholstered in jamavar printed linen from the D’Ascoli x Chester’s collection. The walls, painted with Asian Paints’ custom colour “jade”, are covered with tiles collected on travels to Turkey, Italy, Spain, and China. “I came across the Chinese coffee table at the 25th Street Flea Market in Manhattan and the taxidermy bobcat was found in a roadside diner in South Carolina,” laughs Peter. The 19th-century pastel of a female nude was discovered in the Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen while the tented ceiling has been created using Peter D’Ascoli Custom Fabrics.

A Grand “Fresco-Like” Ceiling

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The apartment in Krakow, Poland, renovated by Grzegorz Pniok, founder of the interior design firm Hauslab, measures 624 square feet and includes four rooms. From the entrance, a corridor gives access, on the right, to the bathroom and leads straight to the living area, with one of its tall windows visible from the entrance. A glass block wall running alongside the corridor brings light into the bathroom before it enters the apartment’s central space where the dining, living, and kitchen areas are located. The space is dominated by a spectacular ceiling that provides a guaranteed wow effect.

“My inspiration came from the work of the early 20th-century artist Stanisław Wyspiański.” Painter, designer, poet, playwright, scenographer, designer, and director, Wyspiański was a complete artist, a leading figure of the Young Poland movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the most prolific European artists of his time and it is easy to understand why Pniok was drawn to his work. He explains, “I wanted to bring 20th-century art into a historical interior. The basis of this project is a theatre curtain created by Wyspiański which can be seen at Krakow’s Juliusz Slowacki Theatre.” The interior designer took inspiration from it to create a wallpaper to use on the ceiling. That done, he just had to add mouldings, which he painted white, while the walls were painted in a pale yellow tinted with beige to create a scene that is elegant, original, and inspired.

A Ceiling Inspired By Islamic Architecture

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