It looks dramatic in the photo, and certainly is interesting from a design stand point, but I would not be able to live there. My eyes would get strained out.

I installed (well, my mother and I installed) hearts of pine, tongue and groove on all my ceilings in 1984, as my old house has plaster and lathe and I couldn't afford to bring in a known-to-me plasterer from Alabama (I'm in Georgia). I did not paint or stain it and over the years it has taken on the beautiful patina that only raw wood can. I have never regretted it and others like it too.

Lately I have been pretty down on apartment therapy, a blog can be interesting but it has to be really interesting and not as commercial to sustain a person's interest after years of coming to it.... thanks for sharing this, i have been very critical of ideas and the design ability of some of people in general (online and offline), but this is just great

anyone got any 4-1-1 on those fantastic sofas!???

No to the floor-ceiling, but those sofas are pretty cool and is that some sort of crazy Busby Berkeley-esque staircase in the background??

Generally not a fan of oak, but I do like the ceiling.

OH NO!!! Is wood paneling going to come back now??!!

I've been wanting to install a wood ceiling but it's a huge commitment. Our place is pretty open so there's no right way to do it without doing ALL of it.
Does anyone have experience using flooring on the ceiling?

It seems like a waste of perfectly beautiful flooring. Indulgent and unsustainable to boot. If you're going to waste flooring on your ceiling, at least make it bamboo!

we have all seen online some amazing applications of a stained plywood to make walls and ceilings, can give things a very modern, calming, look which is much less expensive.

"anyone got any 4-1-1 on those fantastic sofas!???"

Considering, as mentioned and linked in the post, that it's a photo for an Australian furniture manufacturer....

A word to the wise on flooring on ceiling...you get what you pay for.

We put tongue and groove pine flooring on the ceiling of my parents' cathedral ceiling greatroom. Hexagonal greatroom. I cut an awful lot of 60 angles that week.

Dad got the wood on a deal, and while the short boards and small knots wouldn't have been very obvious on a floor (where, say, they were covered by furniture, rugs, etc), every little flaw is blatantly obvious on the ceiling. Except, ironically, that the 6 triangles aren't perfectly planar - the wood does hides the soft bulges in the plywood due to gravity and minor defects.

It's a great look, and has grown on me, but don't skimp here. Ceilings have to be perfect.

""anyone got any 4-1-1 on those fantastic sofas!???"

Considering, as mentioned and linked in the post, that it's a photo for an Australian furniture manufacturer...."

Bepsf,

I followed the link and it's actually a wood flooring manufacturer and not a furniture manufacturer so there's no information on the sofas to be found in the inaccurate original post.

Blarg--

Thanks for the correction - You're so right!

Does anybody know the manufacturer of the lamp?

I'm dyin' to know more about the sofas, too...

My house has wood floors, walls and ceiling. My mother calls it the coffin. How on earth can I get some advice on what to do with it?!?!?

*high-fives Blarg*

Anywho, I LOVE THOSE SOFAS!!!!

We are going to install tongue and groove wood on the ceilings of our back porch, and I can't wait! Flooring is one way to do it, but we haven't worked out the details yet.

There's a restaurant on the water near our house that has wood ceilings inside and out - and it is absolutely gorgeous.

Personally, I'd love to know where they got the anime/manga art. Anyone?

sofa: it looks like the strips sofa by cini boeri. we own a smaller version that looks like the one in the photo.

thanks for the link rossnyc, so aside from the Togo sofa and the Strips, do you know of any others with that similar lowness?