Acheiving New Heights

So this weekend I didn't quite raise the roof, but I did perhaps the next best thing: I raised the ceiling. In an earlier post I mentioned that I had created a 'tray edge' ceiling condition around the bathroom skylight opening as a means to visually reduce the 'shaft' feel of the skylight. A similar situation occurred here at the stairwell, but to a greater degree, given that the skylight at this location is actually smaller than that in the bathroom. So here, rather than extending the plane of the ceiling to help disguise the height of the opening, I decided to demo the ceiling framing above the stair and raise the ceiling height to the underside of the roof joists. In addition to reducing the depth of the skylight's shaft, the added height and volume at this location helps to define the stairwell space and upstairs hallway, with each having its own respective ceiling plane.













I owe David a HUGE debt of gratitude for braving last night's Redskin's traffic and bringing me insulation and working late into the night helping me install it before the drywallers came this morning.