The indoor pergola looks like it might work in a themed restaurant but it’s too campy for a home. Maybe you can recycle the lumber and make a nice pergola outside.

Remove it. You can add "zest" with art, furniture, or paint.

I agree, it makes the room look tight and cluttery. I would remove those beams.

I never like fake beams they always look fake and pergolas do not belong inside .

Another vote for removing it all

Fake beams can look perfectly good, but these are too dark and too intrusive -- and just too much. They're making your space appear smaller. Specifics:

- I agree with removing the pergola.

- But I might keep the main ceiling beam that runs down the middle. It appears to house electricity since a ceiling fan runs out of it. You could paint that beam white instead of keeping it stark dark-dark.

- Ditto for the hatband beam that runs a foot or so below the kitchen ceiling. I'd think about keeping it and painting it white.

Remove the beams, it's a house not a ship. The nautical theme doesn't work.

Another vote for remove. They're not beams but a pergola as stated above

Remove them. You will feel how light and airy the room will be.

Add me to the What the H@ll Were They Thinking camp.

Have to say this is one of the more unusual features I've seen in a kitchen or a house. Although it is unique I'm not sure it adds much. It's kind of visually confusing and almost clutters your kitchen. So, I guess my vote is for removing the pergola rafters, at least. If you decide to keep the support beam (as I think you said your were going to do) I might suggest adding wall on top of it. Visually that might make more sense and give the beam a reason for being there in the first place.

Never seen anything like that inside a home. It's very limiting, lowering and darkening....I would remove.

Thank you all for your honest opinion. I'm looking forward to having a brand new kitchen.

I'm not expert no, but if there's any structural need, might the center post be stronger.. sort of like this?

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I like to 'go slow'.. so I'd consider design that works with reasonable, ok price for things needed... dining lighting? if the horizontal on the far wall were removed it would 'declutter'...

the finish on the beams lightened, and/or particular ones removed...

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Wow! Beautiful layouts!

And I'm going on a tangent, but it impacts somewhat the beams -- if you used other than dark grey curtains, it could lighten the 'visual' of the area.

Might the longest, uppermost beam look more tied in, and like the 'cool' tone of frig, etc.- covered in softer tones... ? Silver Gray/ 3, 4, 5", and lengths from 12 - 48". Wire Brushed and ready to install. W 5" / D 48" / H 0.38"

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Idk how real this looks, but covering beams with lighter doesn't have to look light beachy, or Scandinavian, etc...

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