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Scaling The Proportion Of A Great Room’s Vaulted Ceiling
The idea of a great room is, well, great! Frequently, however, they can be difficult to organize and furnish. The problem is that there are usually too many entryways into the room, and the space is vacuous especially if it has a vaulted ceiling. So as you are considering how to decorate your great room, vaulted ceiling and all, here are some ideas that may help.
Fix the Proportion
Generally you will paint the ceiling in a room a light color to give it extra height. However, in the case of a vaulted ceiling, you will want to paint it a little bit darker to make it less noticeable. By using paint with a flat finish, you will also make the ceiling disappear because it will not be reflecting light back into the room.
Another way to bring the room down to human scale is to add drama to the wall at eye level. For example, you may want to use the ceiling color on the bottom half of the wall with a semi-gloss finish. This painting technique will relate the ceiling down to the wall and make the room feel more cohesive. You can minimize contrast between the wall and ceiling by sponging the ceiling color over the lighter wall color. This also gives you a lot of control over how light or dark the walls are.
Another technique that you can use to keep the eye from going on a trip to the ceiling is to hang art groupings at eye level. If you create all of the visual activity in the room at eye level or below and keep the ceiling space clear and quiet, it will not beckon the eye upwards.
Adding a chair rail and wainscoting add more activity and interest to the bottom portion of the wall, and by painting the chair rail in a contrasting color, you continue to keep the eye on the walls and not the ceiling.
Strong Horizontal Lines
In this room you are trying to minimize the appearance of the vertical space, so you also want to emphasize horizontal space. One way to do this is to use mirrors to expand the size of a room. By hanging oval mirrors and rectangular mirrors horizontally, you actually draw the eye around the room rather than up to the ceiling.
You want to do the same thing with artwork. If you are hanging a single piece of art you want it to be rectangular horizontally. If it is not, then you want to flank the artwork with two smaller pieces, so that the grouping creates a strong horizontal line in the room. While you want activity and interest on the wall from eye level and down, you do not want to clutter up your walls. Choose your artwork, mirrors and photographs carefully to enhance the style of the room.
Furniture should be in scale with the room, and if the great room is small, it can be challenge to draw attention away from tall ceilings. In this case, work toward directing attention to the lower portion of the room by selecting overstuffed furniture. However, in a smaller great room it’s important to choose light colored furniture: This will avoid a cluttered feeling while still attracting the eye to the gorgeous furniture and seating arrangement in the lower portion of the space.
Bring the Ceiling Down
Now that you have successfully divided the top and bottom of the room, it is time to purposefully tie them back together. You will want to incorporate at least one tall element into the room to relate the two halves to each other. Try incorporating a tall plant or a decorative screen to balance all of the horizontal elements in the room.
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How do I run wire for an outlet down the inside of an exterior brick wall?
I would like to install an outlet in my living room. The wall where the outlet is needed is an exterior wall with brick on the outside. Also my ceiling in the living room is vaulted. Can I run the wire on the inside of the brick wall starting from the attic and pull the wire through the drywall to the interior and if so,how is this accomplished?
I may not have been very clear in the original question. I would like the wire to run down the inside of the wall between the drywall and brick. (If that is possible) Thanks for any help
use a fish wire.
First determine where you want the outlet. Then cut the hole in the drywall for the box. then carefully measure horizontally to a common reference point you can see both from the box and from the top of the wall. Measure over at the top of the wall and bore a hole in the wood at the top of the wall. then run your fish wire down and wiggle it until a helper can grab it and pull it through the box opening.
