Imagine a nicely designed living room. You’ve planned the space well, the furniture units are customized to fit the needs and aesthetics, there are openings bringing in natural light. Perfect right?
But wait. What if you’ve got all this and the network of beams on the ceiling is done as such that it forms the most unsightly ceiling. What now?
When faced with an issue like this on one of our sites, the best solution we could come up with was a false ceiling. But then again we didn’t want to cover up the entire ceiling, making the room look much smaller in terms of the height. After starting the design, Purva came into the office to discuss it with Sai. Before he even began, he quickly asked everyone who was interested in knowing how a false ceiling works to come sit in on the discussion. He explained the characterisitcs of the material, its joinery and how it’s fixed on site. We discussed the sizes of gypsum sheets available, how their brittle nature works and the possible materials we could use to fix it. I always thought that you necessarily had to have channels to fix it up, turns out you don’t. We then discussed how we could make the design interesting, leaving some parts open, composing it based on the existing beams and even toyed with the idea of cove lighting.
Now when I imagine the space, it really does seem perfect with the addition of this design element!
But wait. What if you’ve got all this and the network of beams on the ceiling is done as such that it forms the most unsightly ceiling. What now?
When faced with an issue like this on one of our sites, the best solution we could come up with was a false ceiling. But then again we didn’t want to cover up the entire ceiling, making the room look much smaller in terms of the height. After starting the design, Purva came into the office to discuss it with Sai. Before he even began, he quickly asked everyone who was interested in knowing how a false ceiling works to come sit in on the discussion. He explained the characterisitcs of the material, its joinery and how it’s fixed on site. We discussed the sizes of gypsum sheets available, how their brittle nature works and the possible materials we could use to fix it. I always thought that you necessarily had to have channels to fix it up, turns out you don’t. We then discussed how we could make the design interesting, leaving some parts open, composing it based on the existing beams and even toyed with the idea of cove lighting.
Now when I imagine the space, it really does seem perfect with the addition of this design element!
-Mannat
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