People have a lot of opinions about the "big light". It's generally what you'd describe as your ceiling or overhead light, and it's the ambient lighting for a lot of rooms. But why is it so divisive?

If you haven't been giving much thought to your living room ceiling, it's time to shift your mindset. Many interior designers enjoy treating the living room ceiling as a fifth wall of sorts, ensuring ...

If you are looking for a way to spice up a room, it might be time to look up, way up — at the ceiling that is. “Most people just paint their ceilings white, and they’re done,” said Annette Phillips, ...

When designer Bess Jones suggested that Barbara Mattox paint the recessed ceilings in her Paradise Valley home, she didn’t hesitate. “It absolutely changed the whole feeling of the house,” says Mattox ...

Ceilings are the Rodney Dangerfield of homes. They get no respect. But there are plenty of easy ways to make over this oft-overlooked area, from the quirky charm of Victorian-era, pressed-tin tiles ...

One of the joys of touring an old, premodern pile isn't just looking around at the stately furniture and beautiful wall coverings, but looking up at the fine materials, intricate murals and meticulous ...

Holly Wilt’s foyer ceiling used to be an eyesore. Now it’s an asset. The ceiling was damaged by water from an ice dam, but rather than have it repaired, Wilt hid the problem with an upholstered panel.

It used to be that the expansive space above our heads was a no man’s land in the world of interior decorating. About the only exciting thing you did to your ceilings was give them a fresh coat of ...

Forget boring white ceilings — the big interior design craze these days is covering the fifth wall in the room with wallpaper. While the idea isn’t entirely new — it’s been around for a few years — it ...

Do you guys recommend any particular type of material for ceilings in a server room? Currently we have tiles made of your standard acoustic fiberboard(?). The same stuff that we have over the cubicals ...