Textured stretch ceiling: imitation wood, plaster, brocade, mirror, concrete, leather, silk, etc.

When choosing a canvas for your future ceiling, you are guided not only by such criteria as color, pattern, quality, but also texture features. After all, they set the tone for the entire structure. By the word “texture” we mean any external characteristics of the canvas, except for color schemes. Modern manufacturers offer suspended ceilings with textures in different variations. Let's look at them in more detail.

Advantages and disadvantages of textured paints

Compared to simple paint bases, textured paints have their undeniable advantages:

• painting work will not require a lot of time;
• a layer of paint will make the base of the rough ceiling even and will hide chips and cracks;
• surfaces coated with textured paint are not afraid of mechanical influences, they can be washed and repaired;
• the material is inexpensive and environmentally friendly;
• The color shades are amazingly diverse.

The main disadvantage of this finishing method is the high consumption of material. One square meter of surface will require more than a kilogram of paint.

Types of textured paints

According to the aesthetic effect, textured paints are divided into:

• classic;
• multicolor, characterized by a variety of shades or giving a luminescent glow;
• paints with a decorative effect inherent in their basis. In turn, they are also divided into separate types:

- mosaic (granite). Using original paints of this type, it will be possible to recreate an imitation of decorative plaster, natural stone or other interesting decoration on the ceiling;

- plastic masses. Their viscous texture allows you to create deep relief surfaces, under which you can hide all the imperfections of the rough ceiling.

Textured ceiling painting technology

All types of paints are universal in their technical characteristics and methods of application. Therefore, with the help of such means it will be possible to radically change the interior of the room by decorating any surface - wood, plaster, cement.

Painting the ceiling includes several successive stages, the main of which is preparing the surface for painting. At this stage, the previous finish is cleaned off, the ceiling surface is leveled and puttied.

Next, the ceiling is painted:

• the right direction is from the corner to the center of the room;
• movements should be smooth to avoid smudges;
• each subsequent layer is applied parallel to the previous one.

Decorative panels

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One of the popular varieties of such finishing will be relief panels or panels that can be glued directly to the surface of the base floor. This is very easy to do and this option is suitable even for a person with no experience.

A relief panel glued to the ceiling can occupy its entire area or decorate a separate area. Such elements are combined very beautifully with finishing with other materials.

An important feature of this type of finishing is the ability to create a relief ceiling with your own hands. This does not require complex tools or specific knowledge.

All you need are a few decorative polystyrene foam shapes and liquid nails. There are also special types of foam boards that imitate various architectural elements, like caissons.

Installation of such finishing is easy to do with your own hands without outside help. In the selected place, all purchased elements are glued to the ceiling and after the adhesive composition has dried, they are covered with paint, having previously covered all the cracks and gaps with putty. The putty mixture can also be used as an adhesive.

Another option for creating a relief surface is gypsum panels. The stores offer a fairly wide range of similar products. Installation of such panels is not difficult at all - in most cases they are either mounted on a pre-prepared frame or glued directly to the floor plane.

When making repairs with their own hands, many people prefer to leave the ceiling surfaces smooth and perfectly white. Often this technique is required by the declared style of the room, but sometimes people simply do not know about other possibilities. Decorative finishing of ceilings is a modern method of decorating ordinary coverings, with the help of which you can not only hide the shortcomings of the base ceiling, but also visually change the overall appearance of the room.

Recommendations for selection

You should be wary of all sorts of sales of material via the Internet and reduced prices in stores. High-quality material cannot be cheap. Before looking for a company to install suspended ceilings, it is recommended to read reviews about its work.

Products must have appropriate certificates indicating that the material does not contain phenolic resins. The material should not have an unpleasant odor. A barely perceptible odor of plastic is acceptable (it disappears after installation).

Before installing an intricate structure with a complex design solution, it is worth considering whether it will become boring over time. The matte surface and neutral color are not striking or tiring. This ceiling can be combined with any interior style; it can be either white or pastel in color, and its structure can be smooth or velvety. Glossy ceilings are suitable for small spaces ; the mirror surface visually expands the space. They are ideal for modern high-tech style.

For the bathroom and kitchen, bright colors are suitable to enliven the room. For the bedroom, it is better to choose a canvas with a satin or other fabric texture, which will absorb light and create a comfortable atmosphere for relaxation.

The canvas for the ceiling must be selected after the color and texture of the wallpaper or facing tiles have been determined.

In the interior of the office

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As was said at the beginning of the article, fabric ceilings look more expensive than their film counterparts. Therefore, they are often used to decorate home offices - especially if business partners are invited there and you need to impress them.

A traditional design option is to use geographical patterns. A schematic image of a globe or a map of the earth, designed in monotones, never goes out of fashion.

This canvas fits well with the classic type of interior, looks elegant, but does not distract too much attention. Reliable, time-tested option

Animal prints are also suitable for the office - stylish and unusual, they decorate the room and serve as an additional decoration

However, you need to take into account that such a coating is very demanding - you will have to refuse to use other decor, as it will distract attention and make the room overloaded

Another interesting option is to apply a reproduction of a classic painting to the fabric. It is more difficult to implement, and the price is unlikely to be low. However, we do not recommend saving here: the final result depends on the quality of the print.

Carefully consider the main interior of the room: the slightest discrepancy will kill the whole idea and turn a beautiful ceiling into inappropriate kitsch.

Advantages

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The advantages of textured ceilings are basically similar to the advantages of conventional stretch ceilings. Long service life, quick installation, ease of use, moisture, heat and sound insulation.

The textured stretch ceiling in the interior looks incredibly aesthetically pleasing. For the interior in children's rooms, a suspended ceiling made of silk is usually chosen. Not bright shine gives a feeling of comfort and coziness.

Using a pastel color palette you can achieve peace and romance; this option will be an excellent bedroom decoration.

Another advantage is the size of the textured tension surface. It is known that standard PVC film has a maximum width of three meters. This is certainly enough for a standard room. But what if your room is a little wider? Textured ceilings can easily cope with this complexity. Firstly, such a surface is much wider. Secondly, the seam when gluing different or identical textures is practically invisible.

To decorate the ceiling with different types of textures, you need to understand how to combine them correctly. For example, matte and glossy finishes cannot be used together. There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, this combination will narrow the space of the room. Secondly, matte fabric absorbs light, while the metal coating, on the contrary, reflects it. As a result, few light sources simply dissolve in space. Thus, leaving certain areas of the room in complete darkness. Matte fabrics are best combined with silk. Silk material will form the basis of the picture, and matte material will frame the edges of the “picture”.

Leather

Models imitating leather especially stand out in the interior and create the feeling as if the ceiling surface is actually covered with natural products.

Reptiles (snakes, crocodiles)

They have an appearance as close as possible to the original. Such textured canvases look completely unique and give the entire interior a special personality.

Giraffe

Ceiling products with such a pattern add color, uniqueness and effectiveness to the room, and add a touch of exoticism to it.

Backlight

The role of additional lighting is played by spotlights or LED strip. The first ones are fixed on a plane, the tape is mounted around the perimeter, at the junctions of two levels or behind the canvas.

LED lighting for tension fabric

Ceilings with LED lighting seem to float, and the soft diffused lighting from the tape simply looks masterful with the fabric.

Ceilings with LED lighting appear to float

Also very popular is the “starry sky”, in which the corresponding effect is achieved through LEDs mounted in the plane.

Very popular "starry sky"

To enhance the impression, you can imitate stars with Swarowski crystals attached to the canvas, illuminated by LEDs.

Swarowski crystals illuminated by LEDs

Contemplating the night sky with the twinkling stars, falling meteorites, and the northern lights calms the nervous system well.

Spotlights are appropriate everywhere

LED strip is most suitable for the living room, “starry sky” is an option for the bedroom and children’s room, spotlights are appropriate everywhere.

Mirror

They create very interesting optical illusions and visual effects in space. Glossy film enlarges the room and raises the height of the ceiling.

The photo shows a kitchen-living room with a textured mirror stretch fabric in purple.

Types of textured tensile structures

When talking about textured ceilings, we mean some features of the surface of the film or fabric that make up their texture:

• relief pattern (furrows, stripes, waves, protrusions);
• degree of smoothness-roughness;
• level of light reflection.

For example, minimal reflective characteristics are characteristic of matte film. The pattern most often imitates one of the natural surfaces - wood, stone, bamboo or natural fabric. Satin, especially light-colored ones, reflects light rays a little more, and gloss has the maximum reflective properties, the specularity of which serves as an excellent way to increase space.

To emphasize the features of the interior style, we choose one of the popular types of stretch textured ceiling:

• silk – has a slight shine, pastel shades and softness;
• marble - ideally copies a cold and smooth surface with a natural pattern;
• metallic – has a wide palette of shades with a slight shimmer, changes color with varying degrees of lighting;
• mother of pearl – conveys a luxurious pearly shine, looks great in any interior;
• Suede is an unusual solution for the ceiling, great for eclectic decoration.

Combinations of different textures look original. For example, alternating gloss and matte dark tones serve to create an imitation of a multi-level structure.

Features of textured paints

If this is your first time deciding to experiment and create a textured ceiling with your own hands, use special paints. Volume and relief arise due to the addition of fillers to the usual composition. The base consists of acrylic resins; water is used as a diluent. Due to its thick consistency, the paint is applied not with a brush or roller, but with a spatula, like plaster. Traditional tools are more often used to create a pattern or ornament.

Pay attention to the advantages of paint:

• profitability (especially in comparison with tension structures);
• the ability to hide small unevenness of the slabs;
• maintaining the height of the room;
• prompt and inexpensive repairs.

It is fair to note the disadvantages: textured ceiling paint does not adhere well to wooden surfaces, has high consumption and does not cover large defects - protrusions and cracks.

How to choose decorative plaster

With a little practice in the application technique, you can use textured plaster for the ceiling, which is sometimes found in construction supermarkets under other names - decorative plaster, plaster, stucco.

Ready-made formulations

Thanks to new technological developments in the field of modern decorative plasters, there are several types of creating a relief structure of the material, as well as several methods of applying it:

• the volume is created by adding coarse filler, the size of which determines the thickness of the layer - 2-5 mm;
• the visual effect of unevenness occurs during the application of several layers, although in fact the treated surface remains smooth;
• the structure is built under the influence of special tools.

Variation plaster is obtained by mixing two components: the base and one of the fillers, which are chips, quartz chips, flops.

Mother of pearl

They shimmer with a soft pearl sheen, which gives the entire interior a special luxury and elegance.

Types of textures

Modern manufacturers of suspended ceiling structures offer a wide range of textures popular with customers. The main ones are:

• Matte. The main difference from other models is the absence of distinct relief elements. The ceilings of this group are calm, look solid and respectable, and perfectly clearly convey the color palette of the canvas or the pattern on it. Glare and reflections from artificial lighting on such a surface are muffled. Matte canvas is often used as a basis for building a multi-level structure.
• The satin texture will make the ceiling expressive and attractive. Compared to the previous version, it has higher reflective properties. When light hits the canvas, it begins to shimmer, making the color of the hanging structure deeper.
• The glossy texture is highly reflective. Thanks to this feature, a room with such a ceiling will visually look larger and brighter. The color range of the glossy texture is very diverse, so it will suit any interior. Glossy texture is especially popular when decorating nightclubs, swimming pools and other entertainment organizations.

• The translucent texture due to the 50% light transmittance creates the effect of a window opening in the ceiling. And if you choose the right lighting fixtures, you can get an imitation of a real window. However, the use of a translucent texture also has a certain requirement: the room must be high, since to achieve the required effect you will have to “remove” the ceiling height by approximately 40 cm.
• Metallic. This texture resembles glossy, but does not give a mirror shine. It is one of the most popular of a large assortment of tension structures. It got its name due to the metallic sheen of the film. Metallic texture is most often used when decorating rooms in the style of minimalism and hi-tech. The canvas can change color saturation depending on the intensity of the light flux. A special feature of metal paintings is that they contain mother-of-pearl inclusions that imitate the shine of platinum, gold and silver. Also, metallic texture can absorb and change color in the design of the room. No other texture can replicate this effect.

The suede texture copies natural fabric, imitating all its features and characteristics. Pile textiles in the interior make the atmosphere in the room intimate and add a touch of aristocracy. A suede suspended ceiling is just as harmonious in the interior of simple residential premises as in public buildings with expensive decoration, offices of reputable companies, VIP salons and boutiques. This ceiling will perfectly complement a room with leather furniture, and the combination of dark and light colors will create the effect of a business environment, if necessary. The suede texture of stretch fabrics will add warmth and comfort to the bedroom.

• Marble. A texture that imitates stone with a natural pattern of small veins will make the room look solid and pathetic.
• Mother of pearl will add a touch of chic to the interior. Imitation of pearl shine on the ceiling is ideal for a young girl’s room.
• Patterned stretch ceilings are a new product in the range of ceiling structures. The surface of such canvases is decorated with a relief pattern imprinted into their structure. For the production of products of this kind, a special relief vinyl film is used, which provides excellent decorative capabilities of the canvas. The patterned texture has all kinds of colored reliefs and ornaments, which allows it to be used for finishing any room.

The market offers options with large cells and catchy patterns, which will undoubtedly be appreciated by lovers of everything extraordinary. For those who prefer a classic style in decor, there are ceilings with a pattern of small flowers or imitation of fabric relief.

Metallic

It will shimmer with a characteristic silver sheen and change color saturation due to the intensity of lighting.

Stucco on the ceiling

Antique or Gothic interior style involves the inclusion of stucco elements in the design of the room.

Such decorative products are represented by many variations, the main of which are:

• moldings - used to disguise joints between walls and ceilings. A smooth molding or a relief element can complement a classic interior, Provence or high-tech trends;
• rosettes are an equally popular type of stucco ceiling design, used for decorative finishing of the chandelier mounting area;
• cornices, borders, flower arrangements will also help diversify the interior.

All these elements can be made not only from traditional gypsum, but also polyurethane, which has better properties and physical characteristics:

• long service life, increased strength;
• moisture resistance;
• ease;
• plasticity and flexibility;
• a wide range of.

Liquid nails are used to finish polyurethane stucco.

Advantages and disadvantages of textured stretch ceilings

It cannot be said that the special texture of the surface of the canvas can solve all the problems of decorating a room. If we consider ceiling decor only from a design point of view, then the textured surface with embossing and pattern of stretch ceilings is undoubtedly a huge advantage:

• The feeling of unfinished ceiling decoration disappears. A simple white smooth ceiling without a pattern in modern design is perceived as a blank rather than as an element of style;
• On a stretch ceiling, due to ordered dispersion, blinding reflections and spots disappear;
• The textured surface provides not just a uniform reflection of light, more often the texture and pattern turns out to be a finely balanced background, but without excessive thematic pressure on the interior, as is often the case with photographic images, painting or even sculpting on the ceiling.

As a result, the embossed surface helps to perceive embossed stretch ceilings, photo, as an important addition to the furnishings of the apartment. Texture in the color of the wall decoration

Texture in the color of the wall decoration

This is a kind of balance between a modest plain fabric ceiling and overly detailed decor with pictures, landscapes and “starry skies”, which are more suitable for a swimming pool, entertainment facility, cafe or restaurant than for a stylish apartment interior.

Difficulties associated with using textured surfaces

From a practical, philistine point of view, the presence of an ordered texture in a stretch ceiling is very inconvenient. Firstly, the main enemy of any decor is dust that firmly eats into the design. To remove contaminants, you have to make serious efforts and spend a lot of time.

Glossy stone

Secondly, the presence of a textured surface means that the stretch ceiling cannot be installed in any way. Most often, as in the case of non-woven wallpaper, the orientation of the pattern has to be chosen for a long time relative to the direction of incidence of the light streams.

There are, of course, examples of textured stretch ceilings in which the texture is equally directed, but such models are, as a rule, very simple and are used only in the simplest interior solutions.

Marble

Marble texture model is no different from real stone. The ceiling surface with such cladding looks very natural and allows you to create a luxurious, pompous and rich interior.

The photo shows a textured stretch fabric with imitation marble in the living room.

Blade width

• suture
• seamless

Film coatings are stitched together with high-frequency currents. This makes it possible to create a canvas of the desired size. The seam is strong and invisible. The main advantage of seamed canvases is the variety of their colors.

Seamless stretch ceilings are mounted from polyester fabric. But their width is limited, it does not exceed 5 m. Their main advantage is environmental friendliness, stability at low temperatures, and durability. The fabric can also be of different shades, but more often they are pastel. Unlike PVC film, seamless ceilings cannot boast a wide variety of colors.

With the help of modern technologies, it has become possible to create practical materials for the renovation of premises that are universal in their properties. All materials must be checked for compliance with standards and sanitary norms. Therefore, their use is beyond doubt.