When a bedroom has a more contemporary style, give the ceiling some real punch by installing stained slats to fit inside the tray. This looks best when the slats are stained to match the furniture ...

Newton and her husband, Mark, have a vaulted ceiling with beams in their master bedroom and another vaulted ceiling with A-frame trusses in their open kitchen-dining-living area.

Tray ceilings started to appear in the 1980s and quickly became commonplace in the 1990s. Ceilings have now become a focal point for many rooms, featuring beams, insets and lighted molding. If you ...

So in the summer of 2017 it was time to address the master bedroom. They didn’t have enough closet space, and the room was cramped, filled with a king-size bed and big dressers. It was dark, too ...