How to choose your kitchen’s ceiling style?

How to choose your kitchen’s ceiling style?

A complete detailed guide to choose your kitchen’s ceiling style?.

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

 Winston Churchill

This quote was honest on how it goes on choosing the shape and design of your building or apartment. It reveals that architectural and interior designs can be just more than choosing some shapes and materials, we know that our homes can change us, as some colors make us happier and relax at home other walls can hang our best memories on them.

We think that we should pay more attention to our architectural choices and the best place to start that is surely your kitchen.

The kitchen is a vital part of your house where you meet your family on food and have a little chat so you can spend time together, so you must be sure to make the best choices regarding the kitchen different parts as the kitchen cabinet, flooring and the ceiling. In this article, we are discussing in details how you can choose the best kitchen ceiling for the 2017 designs, styles and materials.

When it comes to the kitchen ceiling style there is an endless number of ideas, but you can use some of these tips to help you choose among them:

 1. Keep your whole apartment in a stable flow for better coordination, use the same style in the rest of the rooms and try to carry it through the kitchen ceiling.

2. If your kitchen is small, consider bright light ceiling paint to make the ceiling seem higher and look like a larger space.

3. Consider investing in a ceiling fan in your kitchen to remove the smoke that accumulates on ceiling and furniture and to protect your family as well.

4. Introduce a group of LED lights through your kitchen’s ceiling to show the best in your countertops, cabinets and even food.

5. The ceiling material should be highly customizable and affordable while easy to apply and maintain, so that is why we advise you to use a false ceiling at your apartment. We will discuss the best false ceiling choice in the rest lines.

6. If you feel you are not going to find the right design that fits for you, you might need to get help from a professional kitchen designer.

To choose the type of false ceiling you need for your kitchen, we believe that you should first determine your needs and your budget so that you can choose from a wide variety of possible kitchen ceilings nowadays.

What is a false ceiling?

A false ceiling is simply a second ceiling hanging from the original roof of the building or room and supported by a frame.

Those ceilings are made from various materials such as PVC, wood, gypsum, and POP while the last two materials are the most common we are going to focus on the POP and its recent rising breakthrough. 

The use of false ceilings especially POP based has become popular recently as it is affordable and can be easily shaped, we will discuss the pros and cons later in this article but now let'shave a look to know more about the POP material.

 The POP's material story

POP is an abbreviation for Plaster of Paris, which is a dry powder “calcium sulfate hemihydrate.” The powder when mixed with water forms a paste after it hardens it can be used in architectural designs as in kitchen ceilings or casting molds and even used in making plaster casts for fixation of broken bones, as it does not shrink or crack.

The POP was named after Paris where gypsum was first mined on a large scale near Paris to be used in covering all the wooden walls in Paris to protect it from a fire.

POP false ceiling installation, cleaning, and maintenance.

POP is bought in the form of powder and mixed with water and other material to form a mixture; the mixture is poured into a mold to form the desired shape or a tile after that the tiles are applied to the concrete roof and stick it using a gum of yarn and POP. After the POP ceiling is properly implemented, it can be painted according to the design with any color.

Cleaning your POP ceiling is not going to be a nightmare, as it can be easily cleaned by using a vacuum cleaner or by using a broom tied with an old piece of cloth.

Dust and dirt can be easily wiped from POP, and if you want to clean a stain, you can use peroxide solution or diluted bleach solution then sponge the area after that.

Regarding the maintenance, you should not worry, as once installed the POP ceiling will stay for years for a minimum of 15-20 years to come. If any damage happened to the ceiling, it could be easily fixed with the right maintenance company, and it would be finished in no time, also it will not cost you much cash. 

Here comes the decision time and you are still not sure about your ceiling choices so the following pros and cons of this product will make it a lot easier for you.

Pros of POP ceilings

In addition to the endless design and color options here are some pros of pop ceiling

1. The blocks and tiles made of POP are light and high fire resistant; furthermore, they nearly do not expand on setting.

2. POP material do not crack, has no apparent chemical reaction on paint and does not cause alkali attack, so it is safe.

3. You can install fans, lights, AC and other overhead appliances easily in your kitchen’s ceiling and emphasize the ceiling light fixtures.

4. The false ceiling is a real energy saver as it acts as an insulator to decrease heat in summer and cold in winter so lowering the power bills, it absorbs some noise and sounds as well.

5. In addition to the great look, the false POP ceiling will help you hide all the pipes, AC duct, and cable work so giving you neat and clean look making the whole place even more amazing.

6. False ceilings can help you hide any damage in the roof efficiently, and it is, of course, more economical than rebuilding an entirely new roof.

7. The POP ceilings are cheaper than gypsum board ceiling.

8. Unlike the PVC ceiling, the material of POP does not contain chlorine that may be hazardous over long periods of use; hence, the POP material is nontoxic.

Cons

1.    A lot of POP mixture is wasted in preparation process

2.    The quality of the POP mixture varies according to the human ruling and experience.

3.    The labor cost for a POP ceiling is relatively higher.

4. The false ceiling takes a few inches from the height of the room as it is installed below the existing ceiling.

4. False ceilings, in general, are not tough as traditional ones especially in the case of emergencies like earthquakes and fires the ceiling might be unstable, and the fixtures may fall.

Cost of False Ceiling

The average cost of false ceiling in the US is about 4$ per square feet, of course, it differs from a place to another, but the prices seem very affordable.

Finally, have a look at a group of the greatest POP ceiling designs for kitchens in 2017: