Vaulted Ceiling
I’m renovating a 10×10 bathroom on the top floor of an old Victorian. Can a vaulted ceiling be added or do you need all those beams that go along the ceiling and ‘pinch’ the roof? Would extra thick beams on the sides be sufficient? Has anyone seen this or skylights in an old vic? How…
I’m renovating a 10×10 bathroom on the top floor of an old Victorian. Can a vaulted ceiling be added or do you need all those beams that go along the ceiling and ‘pinch’ the roof? Would extra thick beams on the sides be sufficient?
Has anyone seen this or skylights in an old vic? How does it look?
to me, the term vaulted ceiling means a curved ceiling. It can be a shallow vault or a tall “barrel vault”.
A shallow vaulted ceiling looks beautiful in bathrooms and can be achieved fairly easily as long as you have a good craftsman who can cut new ceiling supports in a curved profile and then nail thin sheetrock to that framework. A skim coat is the finishing touch on a graceful curved ceiling.
Though you may have a non-structural dropped ceiling, most likely the beams you refer to actively part of the roof truss. If so, you could expose them and vault above, or potentially alter the truss to adjust their location. I would recommend speaking with an architect or engineer to evaluate.
Good luck,
Kyle Page, AIA, LEED AP
Sundial Studios Architecture & Design, PLLC