When building your custom home in Vancouver, a lot of attention goes into the small details. Whether it is deciding on molding for each room, selecting faucets or determining which lights and fans look best in the space, you are certain to spend a lot of time determining what you love and what works best for your family.

An interesting architectural detail that goes into any custom home is the ceiling. While mass produced homes are often filled with flat ceilings that lack detail, custom built Vancouver homes have options. When considering the perfect ceiling for each room in your home, here are a few styles to think about.

Tray Ceilings

Picture a baking tray turned upside down, and you have pictured a tray ceiling. With sloped sides that touch the walls, this type of ceiling adds height to a room, and it can make a small room feel much larger. Tray ceilings can also give very large rooms a cozy feel by centering attention toward to middle of your space. Tray ceilings are popular in bedrooms and offices, but they can be implemented into any room in your Vancouver custom home.

Vaulted Ceilings

If you want to increase the height in a room, vaulted ceilings are a great option. This type of ceiling gives a space an open, airy feel, and it can draw the eye upward giving the illusion of great heights and grandeur. Homeowners with two-story great rooms often choose vaulted ceilings, especially when they are paired with a wall full of windows that opens the home to the great outdoors. While there are many advantages to choosing vaulted ceilings, the height of this ceiling style does bring with it the drawback of making a home more difficult to heat and cool. For this reason, they often are not the right choice for rooms that are meant to be cozy and comfortable.

Coffered Ceilings

Coffered ceilings are beautiful choices for contemporary and traditional Vancouver homes alike. They create architectural detail in a home by adding grid recessed panels to the ceiling surrounded by dropped beams. The beams can be white to match the ceiling, made of fine wood to give the home a rustic feel or created in a variety of shapes, sizes and patterns. Many Vancouver custom home builders install coffered ceilings in basements, living rooms, kitchens and dens to make houses unique and perfectly in tune with the homeowner’s design aesthetic and taste.

When planning your Vancouver custom home, never underestimate the beauty and appeal that the perfect ceiling style adds. To learn more about these options and others, call on the experts at Alair Homes Vancouver. With years of custom home building experience, we can guide you in making beautiful decorative decisions that will add value and elegance to your home. Our team is committed to giving homeowners a unique custom home building experience that includes transparency, value and honesty. We put our customers first, and our general contractors and project managers are only satisfied when we exceed the client’s expectations. To learn more about building your home with Alair, schedule your free, no obligation consultation with a phone call to our Vancouver office.