Illuminated ceiling: views on the design, light sources, color, examples in the interior

Recommendations for choosing a backlight

A few practical tips for interior lighting design:

• When using niches, double or triple ceiling models in a room with low ceilings, you should correctly work out the backlight so that the structures do not look too heavy and oversized.
• For high-quality illumination, it is advisable to choose a white LED strip.
• As a decorative illumination of a box or a niche with a curtain rod for curtains, an RGB LED strip is suitable.
• The backlight should not only beat and decorate the ceiling space, but also designate and competently illuminate all functional areas in the room.

Types of ceilings

There are several types of ceiling structures.

Suspended ceiling

Suspended models are divided into the following types.

Drywall

The hygroscopic ceiling, combined with various fixtures, allows you to create unusual lighting accents in the room. See more drywall ceiling lighting ideas.

From wooden slats

The built-in lighting located between the rails gives this design a unique and interesting appearance.

In the photo, the rack and ceiling structure with lighting in the living room.

Glass

Glass models visually expand the room and give it lightness, in combination with various external or internal lighting, they look very nice and give quite bright lighting.

Tension

Various textured stretch sheets allow you to fill the room with a soft glow. Such products look quite impressive and bring a romantic mood to the atmosphere.

Stained glass

The original lighting located under the stained-glass window gives the ceiling space depth and sophistication, and allows you to highlight either the entire ceiling or certain sections of it.

The photo shows a stained-glass ceiling design with backlight.

Acrylic

Plexiglass creates original lighting effects and gently scatters light. Acrylic or polycarbonate backlit panels form a beautiful and luxurious interior.

Mirror

Gives the room additional volume and spaciousness, and in combination with lighting, the mirrors look especially monumental and majestic.

Caisson

In this design, lighting fixtures can be placed both in each cell and in other parts of the caisson model.

Backlight Options

The choice of lighting fixtures for the ceiling is an important component of design.

Around the perimeter

These types of perimeter lighting are often used for various design decisions:

• Soaring ceiling. Due to the unusual effect, flying structures expand the boundaries of space and are therefore excellent for low ceilings.
• Contour lighting. Located at the edges of the ceiling model, it allows you to outline certain shapes and figures and create an interesting play of light and color.

In the photo there is a kitchen-living room with a single level soaring white ceiling.

Internal

Continuous lighting adds volume to the room, enhances color and gives a feeling of large space.

Lines and stripes

Linear luminaires provide a uniform luminous flux and bring enchanting comfort to the atmosphere. Bulbs with various power levels allow you to focus on certain areas of the ceiling plane.

In the photo, the kitchen-living room is illuminated in the form of light lines on the ceiling.

Translucent

With the help of such a translucent ceiling that glows from the inside, a unique and mysterious atmosphere is created.

Geometric shapes (circles, squares)

Contour lighting gives a variety of geometric shapes an additional visual volume and makes them a pretty stylish design element.

Spot

Perfectly emphasizes and highlights the functional areas of the room. Spotlights can be used both in single-level, and in multi-level or combined designs.

Hidden

It is a modern and surprisingly stylish solution that visually raises the ceiling and gives it notes of mystery and fabulousness.

In the photo, the ceiling with hidden lighting in the interior of the dining room.

Light sources on the ceiling

Allow to reflect more individuality of a ceiling design.

LED strip light (LED)

It is particularly flexible and compact, can be mounted on almost any surface. Ice lighting visually changes the geometry of the room, raises the ceiling plane and makes the interior much more attractive and original.

LED lights

They emit a clear, unclear light that is as close to natural as possible and fill the room with high-quality lighting that is pleasing to the eye.

In the photo there is a kitchen with a ceiling decorated with diode ceiling lights.

Light bulbs

They can have different positions on the ceiling, for example along the contour, along the wall, in a spiral or in several rows.

Spots

Provide the ability to adjust the luminous flux and direct it to the desired point. The spots perfectly emphasize certain areas of the room and create bright lighting in them.

Duralight

A flexible ribbon light cable duralight allows you to create unusual lighting for any design and give it a memorable appearance.

In the photo, pink duralight lights in the interior of a small living room.

Spotlights

Spread light in the form of directed rays. Spotlights are distinguished by convenience, compactness and special aesthetic beauty.

Examples of ceiling structures

The main three varieties.

Single level

The unique combination of the simplicity of a single-level design with the beauty of a variety of lighting fixtures creates a concise and very harmonious design.

Duplex

LED strip or luminaires especially effectively emphasize the multi-functional two-tier design.

Layered

A three-level ceiling allows you to implement the most extraordinary design decisions and create truly impressive and individual projects in the room.

Backlight colors

A certain color or shade forms the mood of the entire interior.

Neon

Flexible neon has a soft blue or blue glow. Such a cold shade looks great, both in more spacious and in smaller rooms.

Pink

It creates a magical atmosphere and incredibly beautifully envelops individual fragments of the room with magical light.

In the photo there is a bedroom and a single-level gray ceiling with pink backlight.

Color (RGB)

It provides several multi-colored options that allow you to adjust the ceiling model to any mood.

Yellow

It is a rather positive and bright interior solution.

Purple

A non-trivial option that is suitable for those who love a non-standard and extravagant design.

White

The simplest, but at the same time very stylish and spectacular appearance of the backlight, creating a uniform white light stream.

Ceiling color

Lighting goes well with the ceiling plane of any color.

• The black.
• White.
• Beige.
• Red.

In the photo there is a living room with a beige single-level ceiling with backlight.

Ceiling design

The most interesting ceiling designs.

Window to the sky

A false window is an ideal solution for many interiors. The presence of a backlight will enhance the effect of bottomlessness and depth of this design.

Night sky

The starry sky captivates with flickering lights and its magical appeal, resembles a galaxy and outer space. Such decor will not leave anyone indifferent.

Transparent ceiling

Suitable for small rooms with limited natural light. It provides a sufficient amount of light and thereby becomes the highlight of the interior, which creates a cozy and pleasant atmosphere.

With beam

Spots, spotlights or a diode strip can emphasize the decorative beauty of the beam and create an emphasis on functional areas.

Unusual ideas

Various types of lighting, combined with unusual ceiling models, are an original stylistic device.

One side

Side lighting provides an opportunity to illuminate the part of the room that is used most often.

Sky with clouds

Perfectly transforms the space, brings lightness, airiness to it and gives a feeling of freedom.

With stucco molding

Lighting favorably highlights the bends and patterns of stucco ornaments or patterns.

With pattern and backlight

This combination creates various light illusions in space and undoubtedly becomes a bright and distinctive touch.

Ceiling Shapes

The most common ceiling shapes.

Round

Allows you to diversify the interior and make its design truly special. It can be highlighted with any original shade that matches the style of the room.

With a niche

Such models with a box provide clear boundaries of lighting and are a fairly popular interior solution.

Rectangular and square

Hidden highlighting will make rectangular or square shapes more visible and will not allow them to merge with the general background.

Figured

The ceiling in waves looks quite charming, in combination with various lighting effects, it opens up wide possibilities for various experiments.

Photo of the ceiling lighting in the interior of the rooms

A few photos of examples of lighting solutions.

Living room

Spot, directional, hidden or any other lighting of the ceiling structure should, in the first place, be in harmony with the overall design of the living room. Certain light focus allows you to mysteriously envelop the room with soft light.

Bedroom

Illumination or a variety of fixtures on the ceiling will create an unobtrusive and relaxing glow, which is especially consistent with the relaxing atmosphere in the bedroom.

Kitchen

Spotlights or LED strip with a certain power or direction of the light flux, will highlight the working kitchen area and other elements on which you need to focus attention.

Children

There should not be too bright and harsh light. Ceiling products with various lighting will help to create high-quality, soft, diffused lighting in the nursery with smooth transitions.

Corridor and hallway

Spotlights in the corridor provide a sufficient and measured amount of light. With a competent location on the ceiling plane, they will emphasize the interior of the hallway, highlight its advantages and correctly hide the flaws.

Bathroom

Ceiling lighting will be in perfect harmony with tile flooring, mirrors, fixtures and other decorative elements of the bathroom.

Restroom

For such a small room, single-level models with a minimum number of lighting fixtures will be appropriate. They should create a directed light flux and not overload the space.

Attic

The backlight will be an excellent additional source of light in the attic, it will increase the attic space and give the beveled ceiling lightness, as well as deprive it of a pressing effect.

Balcony

LED bulbs or spots in combination with simple ceiling shapes will allow you to organize high-quality lighting of the entire balcony space.

Examples of design in various styles

Correctly selected light design of the ceiling, is able to harmoniously fit into any style direction.

• Classic. This style implies ceiling models with soft, but at the same time quite bright light. They help to emphasize the impeccable, solemn and majestic atmosphere of a classic interior.
• Modern. Laconic products in bright colors in combination with modern, simple and stylish lamps are an integral part of modern style.
• Minimalism. Ceiling lighting design in cold shades will organically complement the minimalist style, emphasize its concept and will not attract too much attention.
• High tech. Geometric shapes of ceilings with simple models of fixtures will give the hi-tech style thoughtfulness and completeness.
• Loft. An LED strip or spots with an industrial design, on the ceiling plane, will bring a peculiar lightness and spatial depth to the low-key loft.

In the photo, a geometric-shaped ceiling with backlighting in a hi-tech bedroom.

Photo gallery

A backlit ceiling is a fairly common design in modern design. It allows you to unusually highlight certain areas of the room or create full lighting in it.