Collection by Allie Weiss
How to: Design Under a Pitched Ceiling
Whether in restored farmhouses or modern, gabled homes, these rooms accentuate their steep, pitched ceilings.
"We didn't want to diminish the openness and height and feeling of a great expanse of space," said the owner of this resurrected 19th-century barn house in Pine Plains, New York. Fortunately, the barn frame's horizontal beams perform a domestic function by creating the illusion of a lower ceiling. An abundance of furnishings in rich materials fills out the space. Photo by Raimund Koch.