STYLE EVOLUTION OF DROP CEILINGS
Drop ceilings have come a long way since their days as a convenient cover-up for unsightly basement wires and pipes. Today’s drop ceilings offer high-style decorating options for expressing your personal taste. With a wide array of contemporary textures, patterns, and designer finishes, it’s easy to create a look that you’ll love. Here are a few ideas for selecting a style.

DROP PANEL STYLES
If you’re looking for a drop ceiling style to give a room a classic look, go with smooth or textured mineral fiber ceiling panels. Options range from surfaces like fine sand to more detailed plaster-look styles. For something more expressive, wrap your ceiling in a pattern. Playful geometrics, tin ceiling looks, or coffered ceiling panels can be used to anchor a décor theme. When choosing a pattern or texture, remember to keep proportion in mind. Large scale designs look great in an oversize room, but could overwhelm a small space.

How about a conversation-starting ceiling – one that’ll impress guests with a unique style and breathtaking design? Then look no further than a dynamic coffered ceiling or the ultimate in old-world glamour, the look of historic tin captured in metal ceiling tiles.

DROP CEILINGS AND ROOM HEIGHT
Forget the myth that drop ceilings lower room height. Today’s drop ceiling grid hangs down only three inches from the existing ceiling. Installation is a straightforward job that any skilled DIYer can do by attaching hanger wires to the ceiling joists with nails or screws and then suspending the main beams and cross tees.