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?

Recessed can lighting creates a brighter ambience that can mimic daylight—and it won't take up any space overhead the way a single fixture would. Unlike the clunky can lights of the '80s and '90s that ...

Dear Pat: My living room has a pitched roof over it. Iwas thinking about removing some or all of the roof trusses toconvert it to a sloped ceiling with a skylight. Is this a feasibleproject, or will ...

The venerable American designer Albert Hadley advised that “ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.” Hadley, who in his 70s, covered his own living room ...

High ceilings come with many benefits, like lighter, brighter spaces and cooler rooms in the warm months. While you may not be able to enjoy some of these benefits if you live in a space with ...

There are design aspects large and small to focus on when planning a room's aesthetic. From floor to ceiling, there is no shortage of decisions to make (paint color, accent pieces, furniture, art, etc ...

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 ...

Choosing the right ceiling makeover can help you enhance the room's beauty while preserving its historic charm.

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 ...