Making the heavens... quite possibly one of the most impressive things you can do to a room in your house is open all or part of the ceiling up to the skies and all the glory they bring.

The next best thing to skylights and roof windows is a custom painted sky ceiling with tiny twinkling points of light you can turn on and off with the flip of a switch. Any type of sky you can dream of can be painted onto your ceiling... day, night, sunset, calm or stormy. Let your imagination run wild. Perhaps a soothing blue sky with white puffy clouds in your master bath or over your bed.

The first step in the process is painting the sky. Stars are added by using hundreds of feet of fiber optic cable in various thicknesses which transmit light that can even be made to twinkle if you desire. All this is controlled by a switch on the wall just like a table lamp.

Ceilings don't need to have the fiber optic star treatment to be absolutely stunning, a skillfully painted sky alone will wow anyone who comes into your home or business.

Please contact me to learn more about sky and star ceilings.

Cal

     

The sky above my "Egyptian Ruins" themed office is a blue sunny day with just a few puffy clouds and some wispy clouds on the horizon. Though the room is rectangular in shape, the sky is painted in such a way that the center of the room is directly overhead and edges along the walls are nearer to the horizon. The sky becomes darker blue the closer to the center of the ceiling it gets. You should also note that the stars are so small that they cannot be seen when they are not turned on, they virtually disappear.

Roughly any point in this 9' x 12' room will yield a stunning and plausible view of the sky.

     
Once the sky was painted, it was time to tackle the labor intensive task of installing the individual fiber optic cables.  288 stars consisting of 3 different thicknesses were fed down through drilled holes in the drywall ceiling, and glued in place on the backside. Here you can see all the cables hanging down at various lengths prior to being trimmed flush with the ceiling. In the second image the cable lights are on.

          
Three different views of the completed ceiling in relation to the room itself. A floor lamp, table lamp and the computer monitor are all the illumination in the room. You can see how the sky takes on a darker look as the shadows creep in, helping it to look like dusk prior to full night darkness. Capturing the incredible light show as the stars twinkle is nearly impossible with a camera.These pictures do a pretty good job of conveying the warm cozy feeling of the room produced by the glow of the incandescant lamps playing off the faux finished orange and cream walls. The center picture is what I see when I look up from my computer screen while sitting at my "stone ruins" desk.

          
Here are a few more views of the ceiling with the stars turned on and some ambient light from the table and floor lamps. Can you see the lights twinkling?