Although there are alot of false ceiling designs that you can find online, we realise that home owners are looking for something more applicable to our homes in Singapore.
We have arranged our false ceiling design in terms of areas within a residential unit. Here are some of the different false ceiling designs for residential units that we would like to share.
Covelight False Ceiling Works -Landed Home
Types of False Ceiling Design
Living Area Design
The Living area in a home is the most essential. It is where you spend most of your time as you mingle with your family members and friends; or to wind down after a tough day. Since so much time is spent here, it is important that your living area can provide enough lighting, look bigger and provide alternative accent lighting if possible.
Covelight False ceiling on all sides
Many HDB dwellers are worried that with a flat false ceiling, the finished height of your home would be greatly reduced. We usually work around this by recommending false ceiling design coupled with covelight/L box surrounding all sides of your living area.
The use of a single surface mounted light often cast shadows around the living area. This can make the room look duller than it seems. Hence, the use of downlights installed on all sides of the living room can not only reduce shadows but brightened up the room more evenly.
Complement this with covelights to provide accent lighting effects. Covelights provides a warm glow allowing you to wind down and feel relax after a long day a work.
Covelight on 04 sides - Yishun Symphony Condo
L-shaped Covelight False Ceiling
Design flexibility – Some home owners prefer the L-shaped covelight false ceiling as it gives more flexibility to the design. Additionally, it enhances the visual depth of the living room.
Hence, onlookers would feel that the room actually seems wider. The flexibility of a L-shape covelight design allows you to adjust it’s shape according to your home’s layout. For example, the false ceiling can be aligned with the passageway to your bedroom as shown in the image on the right. By doing so, your false ceiling would look more proportional.
L-shape Covelight False Ceiling
Demarcating your living and dining area– In some residential units, the dining area and the living area are located within the same area. This can be confusing to separate them. Hence, with a L-shape covelight false ceiling design, your cozy corner could be seggregated away from your dining area easily.
L-shaped Covel ight False ceiling with Living area highlighted using covelight
U-Shaped Covelight
You might also consider U-shaped covelight when there is space constraints or when an Air-con is already built in for most ECs and Condominiums. A U-shaped Covelight is just as appealing as a four sided covelight.
U-shaped Covelight - Lake Grade Condo
One bar covelight/ Twin Bar covelight False Ceiling
One bar or Twin bar covelight is yet another alternative. It does not take up too much space allowing flexibility in placing other decor lighting or a ceiling fan.
This design also helps make the room perceive as longer or wider depending on which side of the room it is located at.
One-bar Covelight - Short side of Living Room -Hundred Palms Residences
One-bar Covelight - Long side of Living Room - The Alps Residences
Twin-bar Covelight
Flat False Ceiling
A flat false ceiling allows you to spread your lighting more evenly throughout the living area. The even false ceiling can conceal your actual ceiling which can sometimes be quite uneven.
Additionally, the increase in lighting points for the downlights are also much cheaper as compared to adding surface light points.
Spice up your false ceiling – A flat false ceiling need not be plain and boring. One suggestion is to add certain features such as cove lighting shine against the wall to make the room seems wider. Alternatively, you could add recessed drop ceiling in some stretches of your false ceiling
Flat False Ceiling at Living Room - The Lanai Condo
Island Covelight False Ceiling
Island Covelight on four sides - Margaret Ville Condo
Island Covelight using smart LED Strips - Marina One Residences
Island Covelight 02 sides - Rivercove Residences
False ceiling with L-shaped recessed on sides - Garden Residence Condo
Dining Area False Ceiling Design
The use of false ceiling with covelight are good ways to highlight a dining area. In addition, it also sets your mood for a good meal with your family. Bon Appétit !
Covelight false ceiling highlighting Dining Area
Covelight false ceiling above dining area
Covelight false ceiling Surrounding dining area
Bedroom Passageway Design
Bedroom passageway is often long and narrow. In some situations, it can be quite dim too. Adding accent lighting along the sides of the passageway widens it.
Curved False Ceiling Design
Feeling more adventurous, you could also try to add unique false ceiling designs too!
Today, bedrooms of new condos and flats are getting smaller! It is not recommended to install all sides of your bedroom with covelight/Lbox as such. This will only make the room look even smaller.
You can work around this by installing one bar, an L-shaped covelight false ceiling or an island covelight design
Island Covelight
Island Covelight - Magaret Ville Condo
Island Covelight - Magaret Ville Condo
Island Covelight - Riverove Residences
Island Covelight - Riverove Residences
L-shaped and 04 Sides Covelight
Walk-in-wardrobe
Fancy your very own walk-in-wardrobe? We face many space restriction today due to the lack of space in bedrooms. Hence, the most common and cheapest way to create your “mini” walk-in wardrobe is to use your own wardrobe!
Using covelight false ceiling, you could even enhance and brighten up this space.