Custom carpentry / Ceilings

Coffered and Paneled Ceilings in Shelby Township, MI

The biggest blank surface in the room is over your head.

Ceiling molding built by Jozef and his father, Sander, for homes in Shelby Township and across Metro Detroit. The ceilings shown here are paneled.

Finished paneled ceiling painted white: octagons around the recessed lights, joined by rectangles, across the whole room.
Octagon ceiling, finished and painted.

A ceiling pattern only works if it's laid out around what's already up there: the lights, the vents, the walls that aren't quite square. Here's one before paint and after.

An octagon ceiling, before and after paint

Before paint, the pencil layout lines are still on the ceiling. Finished, the octagons sit around the recessed lights, with rectangles joining them across the room.

Paneled ceiling before paint: octagons around the recessed lights joined by rectangles, with pencil layout lines still visible.
Before paint: the layout lines are still showing.
Finished paneled ceiling painted white: octagons around the recessed lights, joined by rectangles.
Finished: octagons around the lights.

A sloped ceiling over the stairs

Frames on a ceiling that slopes with the stairs, painted out with the paneling on the wall below them.

Finished stair hall, painted white: picture-frame molding up the wall along the stairs and across the sloped ceiling above them.
Stair hall: frames on the wall and the sloped ceiling.

What to send us for a ceiling

  • A photo of the whole ceiling, taken from a corner of the room.
  • The room size and the ceiling height.
  • Where the lights, vents, and smoke detectors are. A second photo is fine.
  • A picture of a ceiling you like, if you have one.

Ceilings questions

What's the difference between a coffered ceiling and a paneled one?

A coffered ceiling has beams that drop below the ceiling, so each panel sits recessed. A paneled ceiling uses molding applied flat to draw the same kind of grid, without the depth. The octagon ceiling on this page is paneled.

Do my recessed lights have to move?

Not on the ceiling on this page. The octagons are laid out around the recessed lights.

Can a sloped ceiling be paneled?

Yes. The stair hall on this page has frames on a ceiling that slopes with the stairs.

Also see: all of our custom carpentry in Shelby Township, wall paneling, and trim and crown.

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