Decorating Ideas for a Room With a Triangle Ceiling

Concealing the Peak

• If the triangular peak just doesn't appeal to you, you won't be able to get rid of it, but there are a few handy decorating tricks you can employ to conceal it or minimize its impact. One way of doing the latter is to position a large couch or a bed in a central position in the room. Alternately, you may wish to install large beams running across the room that effectively eliminate the triangular peak from view. The only problem with this tactic is that it will make your ceiling a bit lower. Still, a cheaper solution is to install an interesting piece of art somewhere in the room so that the viewer's eyes automatically gravitate toward it when entering the space, rather than rising up to the ceiling.

Accentuating the Peak

• Accentuate your room's décor by emphasizing its height. Decorating the ceiling with a mural can add a touch of elegance to it. Go with a classical theme, or a sky theme to give the room a sense of expansive airiness. Depict the sun or use a bright color at the peak to accentuate its prominence in the ceiling.

Furniture

• Furniture considerations for your triangular room will depend largely on how high the ceiling is. For very high ceiling rooms, use large, bulky furniture in order to balance the high point of the ceiling. In the event that the ceiling's lower points are not very high, you will want to use lighter and smaller furniture in order to avoid giving people the feeling that the room is much smaller than it actually is.

Lighting

• Lighting can be one of the trickier decorating elements to a triangular room, but there are a few guidelines you can abide by to get it right. Try using hanging lights with extending arms and hang them from the point until they dangle about 8 feet above the floor. You can also use floor lamps in the room's corners in order to keep visitors' gazes down lower.