My friend just remodeled her home and put in wood ceilings. They look great!

I had an oringinal 1920 pine ceiling in the kitchen in our old house. The ceiling was about 9' too and never thought it looked low.

Maybe try to incorporate some elements that enhance height when decorating. Maybe bring the curtain rods closer to the celiling?

Great ideas!! Yeah those don't look low at all. Maybe it's just these pictures on Pinterest I'm seeing that are tricking me into thinking that haha I'll post some

These are pretty rooms but feel low to me like you'd want to duck when you walked in haha so it scared me that I'd spend all that time and get the wood up and it feel that way.

Love your kitchen Tira!

I love wood ceilings on porches and in summer/vacation homes. Not so much elsewhere. If the house is in the woods, it might work. But if it's smack dab in the middle of a subdivision with only a few trees, it will look like a stage set.

I wondered why anyone would want to do this and the idea is completely new to to, but I find that I like the ones that are broken up into smaller sections with white cross beams. That gives a warm look without looking "woodsy". It also seems to depend on the color of the wood - the more greyish or beige tones seem less rustic that the warmer and darker shades.

Anglophilia nope I have 15 acres and live among lots of rolling hills so logs and wood stuff fits perfectly.

DLM2000 that is absolutely stunning (and I'm going to totally need you to come decorate my house! LOL i'm just kidding), it doesn't look low at all or like caveish. I'm starting to think maybe the lighter color stain is what is keeping it from looking so low. Y'alls pictures that y'all posted are a lot lighter than the pictures I'm referring to that I'm seeing on pinterest and stuff.

ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9 I'm definitely totally going for the woodsy look! Lodge, mountain home, log cabin, style all the way

aktillery9...those ceilings are beautiful. Do you happen to know what kind of wood your friend used on her ceilings as well as the stain color/finish?

I know 8' ceilings are consider low these days but for me it's anything under 8' that's low. I think 9' would be perfectly fine to add wood ceilings and would look lovely.

Tira-Misu that kitchen is to die for - must have been hard to give that up! I love the character of the brick and wood together!

Ashley, I think you should go for it. My only suggestion is to try and carry the wood into a few other spaces throughout the house so it transitions properly and doesn't feel like an add-on. I did a pickled white-washed pine on my great room ceiling, and absolutely love it!

rebeccamomof123 my "worry" is actually doing too much LOL (not really a worry, you can never do too much wood, in my opinion, but other people don't agree) my door and floor trim are wood and my floors are wood and so are my window sills. I didn't do wood window frames because I was scared I was doing too much but it's supposed to be woodsy and lodgey feeling so now I'm thinking I didn't do enough, now that I've actually lived in for 4 weeks. I find myself wanting more wood. Just wasn't sure if that would like a good add in or like a, holy crap that's a lot, kinda thing hahaha but I think I am going to go for it. I want to wood the vaulted ceiling in my living room and the vaulted ceiling my kitchen but there's a flat ceiling in the dining and the foyer (the way the roof had to be for there to be 2 separate vaults) so you think those will be ok wooded and not the flat part? ( i wasn't going to do uppers on the other side of the kitchen until I lived in it and decided it needed them, so it looks funny here without appliances LOL)

"low" and "lower" are two different things. wood wont make a 9' ceiling look low, but it will look lower than white paint. good if you are wanting to cozy it up.

nidnay, I believe the wood was saved from their reno. They found these planks when they removed the plaster. It is an older home. The wood is oak. In the pictures it looks much lighter than in person.

aktillery9...lucky them that they had such beautiful wood to use.

I did a reclaimed wood in herringbone on my vaulted ceiling (it's under my name in my projects) and I also did a much smaller project in one of the bedrooms! It's only a 8' ceiling and I put up bamboo T&G flooring. Oh, I forgot,,I did french oak flooring in my bathroom reno. but that's vaulted too. but he smaller bedroom is nice and cozy w/the ceiling done. With your 9' ceiling, don't worry about it looking low. it won't.

do the tongue and groove, wide plank flooring if you can. it's easier. use a finishing nailer and adhesive. we did that w/the french oak flooring on the bathroom

Another look could be shiplap painted white and add beams in the same stain as your floor. The rustic lodge can still be achieved by your choice of accessories and will keep the room feeling larger and brighter.

Beth H. : I love that! Do you have to do anything to make it hole if I use T&G flooring? Like do you nail it down or what to keep it from sagging or falling?

ashley, we did the construction adhesive on the back, and a few finishing nails (super tiny holes w/a pneumatic nailer) in each board.

this is the small room we did about 10 years ago w/the bamboo. (back then it wasn't a thing, but bamboo was, so I picked that). 8' ceilings

(I'm in the middle of painting and of course, ran out of paint!) this was also done w/the adhesive and a nailer. the crown hides the edges. If you're really good, you won't need to do edging. By the time we got to this ceiling, we were pros and didn't have to do any edging

Beth H. : my daddy has built houses for 20+ yrs and is most definitely a pro! I can't wait to try this and see it done!!! I absolutely love love love that

Our breakfast porch ceiling is beadboard and stained rather than painted. It doesn't seem all that low to us (it's 8'3). However, our painted wood front porch which is also beadboard was definitely lowered when we removed the screens. It seems so much lower now! Love wood ceilings in the right area.