Want the effect of the skylight or window where there really isn't one? This could either be really tacky or a unique feature in rooms that can't receive any natural light, like the basement...
The Sky Factory: Trompe L'oeil Skylights
Skyceilings use a ceiling grid system with high resolution outdoor photography, backlit by a 6500K fluorescents or 6000K LED lighting system in a lightbox structure, creating not only the illusion of an overhead scene, but also providing illumination with the same light spectrum as real daylight. You can peruse the Sky Factory's catalog of different scenes here.
We'd like to see a future version from the The Sky Factory using OLED display or similar technology, which would allow for more immersive and believable sky with moving clouds and swaying trees. Because as beautiful as one view may be, if it never changed, it would get a bit boring.
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They had these over the beds in the hospital my grandma was staying at. I thought it was nice there, but in a house it might look a little odd...
view gina olivia's profile
at $50/square foot this product doesn't even qualify as a fun novelty--the cost alone makes it tacky.
view Matthew's profile
Ugh, although I get that it would be nice above a hospital bed. This is just like that ugly ass fake kitchen window!
view ARC's profile
This sushi restaurant my family used to go to in LA had this stuff all over the ceiling and walls. It was a tiny, funky space anyway, but there's something about Japanese people and their ability to pull off crazy decorating, it totally worked. I wouldn't want it in my house, though...maybe it's the Seattelite in me, but I like the real outdoors.
view devonc's profile
horrifying
view jenzoe's profile
This doesn't work for me. And if I saw it in a sushi restaurant, I'd borrow the chef's knife and put it out of the customers' misery.
view JonathanB's profile
if this isn't the tackiest thing i've ever seen, it's definitely made the top 3...
view boomtown!'s profile
tacky but with different sky view it could be better.
view TheoJ's profile
aww, i love it. it reminds me of the main dining area of canter's. um...
view santos.'s profile