looking for opinions/advice or other ideas. we are completely renovating a beach house that has ceiling beams with a support post that are not going to be removed after consulting with a structural engineer. they are on main floor of 3 floor house and too many other things are involved to move them so we are wanting to make the best of the situation with ceiling finish. The top pictures are what we have and the rest of pics of ideas that we could install. the ceilings are only 9 feet high. The 30ft x 15 ft area outside kitchen, that will also be completely renovated, is split by a beam with about 40% dining area/60% great room. Again, we will not be removing beams or support column. We will be putting in light to medium tone wide plank wood floors and a very light neutral on walls with white trim and more ceiling lighting is being added. Needing advice on which of ceiling options in idea pics might work in this space best and incorporate the beams to look more part of design but not be too heavy looking and make room feel smaller or closed in? Also is there a rule of design that speaks to which way to run the added smaller faux beams or joists side to side along longer line of room or the shorter line front to back? when you are walking up stairs from foyer or in kitchen both looking toward back wall of home out to water behind house would it be better to see the extra lines running away toward back of house to feel like room is deeper or across the house so you are seeing sides of all the extra lines on ceiling and how far apart is far enough not to feel claustrophobic or too busy and distracting? The kitchen will be done later this summer so we will live with ceiling in kitchen area the way it is for a bit. quick background: We are relocating from Texas to coastal Virginia for hubby's job and after 18months of him committing while waiting for our son to graduate in Texas we finally found house in great location and under contract before Covid19 became an issue. We have to move there by 1st week of June but have only been in it when touring w agent and hubby would have been out there 50% of time and I would have been flying out several times to make decisions and pick finishes but now we are stuck in Dallas relying on an amazing GC and videos, pics of progress and picking paint, flooring & finishes online with samples mailed to us and a bit overwhelmed so we decided best to wait till we moved in to do kitchen so we could get a better idea what we really want and how we use it rather than spend a lot and regret it. So before we move in, focus is just getting flooring and paint finished throughout house and removing 2 faux support columns that I suppose were put in to balance the real supporting center column aesthetically and big arches that were made to cover these beams originally but were just in the way in such a small space and broke up room too much and remove ugly fireplace that was not working in corner for design and furniture placement size of room. We will eventually be adding a sunroom right of the great room area and put a fireplace in their to sit by and watch the water.