A Design Tip from the Premier Traverse City Construction Company, Ferraro Builders
Beam Me Up
Luxury home designers often use wood posts, cross beams, and rafters to lend interiors a traditional, or even a rustic feel. These elements can also more subtly influence room design in today’s exceptional custom built homes located throughout northern Michigan. Because of their visual heft, wood beams can alter one's perception of space. Exposed rafters, cross beams, and timbers can help bring the scale down and add a more human dimension. Posts and cross beams in particular can create a more intimate feel in spacious or high-ceilinged rooms by bringing the ceiling closer to the floor plane or drawing walls closer together.
Northern Michigan's Unique Custom Home Design Elements
When you're in a big open space, you feel kind of lost. It helps a custom home design to add elements of a scale people can relate to. At Ferraro Builders, northwest Michigan's leading luxury home builder, we strive to create the right feel in each and every custom built home. Exposed posts and beams, regardless of whether they are structural or not, can tastefully diminish a room's scale by seeming to lower the ceiling plane. It is important to use paint or stain colors that will bring more attention to these elements. You do this because you want to call attention to the ceiling, so you've got to think about the finish of these elements relative to the rest of the room.
In some cases, it is important to maintain an intimate character. To do this we recommend developing some texture on the ceiling to give it a human scale and to bring the ceiling down to the floor. For example, in a living room with a vaulted ceiling with structural beams, we typically employ non-structural purlins running perpendicular to the beams and a ceiling made of tongue and groove planks.
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